Strengthening families and building community
to raise children who make a positive impact in the world.
FIND THE PROGRAM FOR YOU
EPIC provides a series of helpful parenting programs designed to support you through the childhood development journey. Select your stage and find programs right for you and your child.
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FAMILY ENGAGEMENT
Family engagement is a shared responsibility where schools and other community agencies are committed to supporting their children's learning and development.
Our Impact is Felt Every Day
50+
Programs + Events throughout the year
10,000
Families impacted by EPIC services every year
10,000+
Annual hours dedicated to serving families
45
Years of service
OUR STORY...
EPIC was born out of a tragedy experienced by our founder Robert Wilson.
In 1977, his wife, Linda lost her life at the hands of a 15-year-old neighbor they had befriended. Bob learned that throughout the child’s life, he had been placed in eleven different foster homes and had experienced years of abuse and neglect.
While it was too late to change what happened to his wife, Bob felt that it was not too late to help others who might experience the same fate.
In 1980, he established EPIC in Buffalo, New York with a vision of preventing tragedies like his own. Intent on supporting families, schools, and communities to prevent child abuse and neglect by offering parenting, family engagement, youth services and professional development, he united the village it takes to raise a child.
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Sometimes I Feel by Hope Wilson Hawkins
The Author, Hope Wilson Hawkins, is a long time EPIC board member, and the daughter of the founder of EPIC.
From the Author:
"The stories in my memoir will describe for you two distinct paths of working with grief: my father’s way and my way. My father directly channeled his grief through creating the flourishing organization, EPIC (epicforchildren.org), in honor of my mother, to help children become responsible adults. I, on the other hand, have spent 60 years trying to figure out my way to work productively with grief and believe that I have received profound healing in my journey. I am now able to recreate my story in a transformational memoir, which invites the reader to acknowledge and accept grief as a wise teacher and life companion."
