"Ensuring Children Get the Best Start in Life"
As of August 2024, the Benbrook Public Library is proudly recognized as a Family Place Library. As a Family Place Library, we aim to support parents, caretakers, and their young children with the resources to create healthy and happy homes! We encourage you to explore the resources and programs offered by our trained and experienced youth service librarians.
We invite you to participate in our bi-annual workshop focused on early child development.
Next Workshop Series: August 16, 2025 - September 13, 2025
Parent/Child Workshop
The Family Place Workshop is a five-week parent/child workshop designed to benefit the livelihood of parents/caregivers and provide an early-learning source for your young infant/toddler. The workshop will be held once per week for five consecutive weeks and will run about 75 minutes. Each session will feature a childcare professional who can provide your family with valuable early childcare resources and information.
Family Place is focused on child-led play that will help your infant/toddler with various skills by:
- Increasing social and verbal interaction
- Supporting bonding and attachment between parents and their very young children
- Promoting early learning
- Providing access to developmentally appropriate toys and materials
- Beginning the process of lifelong learning
The Family Place Workshop not only benefits your young child, but will provide several benefits to you as a parent/caregiver, such as:
- Increasing awareness of library services
- Increasing awareness of community agencies and services
- Lessening parents’ feelings of isolation
- Increasing knowledge of child development, early literacy, and learning
- Promoting interactions between parents and children
- Supporting parents in their role as first teacher
- Encouraging and empowering families