Thursday December 4th
6:30 —8:30 pm
Jewish Museum Milwaukee
and…. HIPPY’s school year activities are beginning soon!
Family Gathering Nights
Monday December 8 Monday, January 12, 2026
Monday February 9, 2026 Monday, March 9, 2026
Monday April 13, 2026
Make plans to volunteer on one Monday evening a month to meet the HIPPY staff and families, and help with craft and STEAM activities
EMAIL MARGIE MARGOLIES TO SIGN UP AND FOR MORE INFO: MARGIE@MARGOLIES.COM
Be a Volunteer for HIPPY Family Gathering Nights
At monthly Family Gathering Nights, NCJW volunteers help children ages 2-5 (and their parents and siblings) with art and science projects, games, and other activities, serve dinner, read to children, etc. It is truly a fun and rewarding volunteer opportunity every second Monday from 5-7pm during the school year, at either the Riverwest Center, 909 E Garfield Avenue, or COA’s Amani Campus, the Goldin Center, 2320 W. Burleigh St, 53206.
For information and to RSVP contact Margie Margolies (margie@margolies.com)
Home Instruction for Parents of Preschool Youngsters (HIPPY), a program of COA Youth and Family Centers, is a parent involvement, school-readiness program that helps parents prepare their two-, three-, and four-year old children for success in school and beyond.
Peer mentors provide parents with a set of carefully developed curriculum including books and materials designed to strengthen their children’s cognitive skills, early literacy skills, and social/emotional and physical development.
Parents and children read, play, and learn together every day in their homes and at monthly HIPPY Family Gathering Nights.
HIPPY empowers parents as the primary educators of their children in the home, and fosters parent involvement in school and community life. HIPPY families are more involved in their childrens’ schools and in their communities even after they finish the program, and their children are more successful in school!