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Jody Smetak Hired as Director of Education for Family Education & Support Services. By Bob Partlow For several years, Family Education & Support Services (FESS) has wanted to hire a person to oversee its many parenting programs. In Jody Smetak, FESS found someone for the newly created [...]

Tips for keeping the “happy” in your family’s holidays Written By: Shelly Willis, Executive Director, who draws from her experience teaching parenting classes for more than two decades. Many Parents and Caregivers greet the holiday season each year with a combination of joy, love and varying degrees [...]

OlyFed to offer help with financial grounding through new banking program Family Education & Support Services (FESS) is one of 40 non-profit organizations to partner with Olympia Federal Savings (OlyFed) on a new program aimed at what Ryan Betz, vice president for marking and public relations, calls [...]

From Program Participant to Board Member Few people’s lives exemplify resilience more than Lelah Fields. She is one of the reasons why the words “Regional Resilience Center” was added to Family Education and Support Services’ (FESS) identity a few years ago. Resilience, that quality of flexibility and successfully [...]

FAMILY EDUCATION AND SUPPORT SERVICES MOURNS THE DEATH OF CARRELL SIMMONS, A MAINSTAY OF THE AREA ORGANIZATION OLYMPIA, WA – The South Puget Sound area lost a valuable friend to parents and children this week with the death of Carrell Simmons, Tenino, who had been the office [...]

An innovator whose programs better the lives parents and kids Many parents, seeking and sometimes struggling to find the best strategies to raise kids who are emotionally healthy and resilient, find a local online support system through Family Education & Support Services' Parental Compass podcast, hosted by Bobby [...]