Feature Articles
Mothers' Club: The Power of Two
The Magazine: Luxary Lifestyles, December 2007
We all know that children are the
future of our community and society.
Nevertheless, many children in our Region
have not received the assistance that they
need – and that their parents need – in order
to be successful in the future...
New preschool to be Earth-friendly
Pasadena Star News, October 2006
From the ceiling down to the soap, this preschool is going green.
More than 50 toddlers and their mothers paraded in hard hats, pulling wagons of cardboard bricks and plastic shovels for the virtual groundbreaking of the new Mother's Club learning center Wednesday morning...
Nurturing Moms
Arroyo Monthly, May 2006
Mothers’ Club has been helping mothers and children since 1961 with its educational programs and community center in Pasadena. In 2003, when I first walked into Mothers’ Club at their cheerful location at the Friends Meeting House on Orange Grove Boulevard in Northwest Pasadena, I entered a world where miracles happen....
Mothers' Club: A Community Learning Center for Mothers and Their Children
Pasadena Star News, May 12, 2006
Meet Denia Perez, a single mother with soft brown eyes that grow warm with love as she cuddles her son, Julian Rosales, 3. Denia and Julian are among a hundred families the Mothers' Club helps every year; they are typical in their needs and how they are met...
Mothers' Club Annual Gala
Pasadena Star News, September 11, 2003
Mothers matter at 40-year-old Mothers' Club Community Center in Pasadena. Two club centers provide free educational programs and services to mothers and their prekindergarten children, working to make families stronger by reaching out to meet the specific needs of isolated mothers in the Pasadena and Altadena areas...
Building Better Moms at the Mothers' Club
"Pasadena Star News, May 8, 2003
I reap the benefits of their work," said Sandra Macis, principal of Madison Elementary in Pasadena, about the Mothers' Club. "What comes to me are children ready to learn, and with fabulous skills... And of course their parents are right behind them, wasting no time in showing their support...I'm sure that I could track the kids that are proudly on my top 10 percent list," she said. "And those kids started in Mothers' Club...
Club Earns State Grant
Pasadena Star News, October 14, 2002
PASADENA Mothers' Club has won a second state grant for promoting family literacy. The Proposition 10 award of $445,000 over three years will fund reading classes for kids and parents, high school equivalency diplomas and English as a second language classes for adults, and new libraries at Mothers Club sites in Pasadena and Altadena...
Teaching 2 Generations
Los Angeles Times, March 21, 2001
Center offers learning and support to children and their mothers. It's part preschool and part support group for parents, many of whom are learning English...