No PWP chapter in your city? Want to start one? Here's how you can do it!
Parents Without Partners is made up of locally organized chapters which started much as you are starting now--with a few concerned, deeply interested individuals. We are truly a self-help organization. We are here to help one another. And we do.
PWP is an all-volunteer organization. Officers are elected to chapter boards of directors annually, and they, along with committee members, plan and carry out the administrative and educational programming that does the work of the organization. All members are encouraged and expected to be involved members, whether they serve on a committee, as an officer, or just support the activities of the chapter by attending.
Getting Started
- First Things First! -- Get a Group! We all know that single parents are a large and growing percentage of all communities. In order to start a new Parents Without Partners chapter you'll need to get a group of at least 10 people together. Anyone who is a single parent by reason of divorce, death of a spouse, or never married is eligible to become a member of Parents Without Partners. Age and custody arrangements are not a factor.
- Next -- Let us know you're interested in starting a chapter in your area and we will help you! Just contact PWP by telephone 1-800-637-7974 and we will to put you in contact with someone who will meet with you and your group and help you with all the details.
- Advertise/Market Your Group -- Your local newspapers, radio stations, and television outlets are prime sources for reaching single parents. Contact the city and/or lifestyle editors of your daily and weekly newspapers. A story in the paper about a Parents Without Partners chapter being organized for single parents who are divorced, widowed, separated or never married would attract attention. The time, place and date of the first meeting should be carried in the story.
- Make contact with the program managers of your local radio and television stations or with those conducting various family related programs on the air, particularly the public broadcasting stations and cable channel local programming.
- Company or church newsletters, bulletin boards in public places, flyers in store windows, parent teacher meetings, and day care facilities also provide means of reaching the interested public.
- Make contact with the program managers of your local radio and television stations or with those conducting various family related programs on the air, particularly the public broadcasting stations and cable channel local programming.
You have your group of at least 10 people together, now what?? Click here to download “The First Meeting"