Challenging Behaviors: Where Do We Begin? We've expanded upon our award-winning "What Do You Do with the Mad that You Feel?" anger-management training for childcare providers with a new training workshop titled Challenging Behaviors: Where Do We Begin?, which was presented at the NAEYC Professional Development Conference. Fred Rogers often talked about how important it was for adults to help children manage their angry feelings, and he often addressed this theme throughout the MISTER ROGERS' NEIGHBORHOOD series. This workshop was created in response to requests from teachers and providers who are looking for help in addressing children's challenging behavior in their child care settings and classrooms. MORE Back To Top
	Dear Mister Rogers: Does It Ever Rain In Your Neighborhood? This collection of delightful, touching, and humorous letters from children and adults to their television neighbor are wonderful and wonder-filled. And Fred Rogers' responses will give readers insight into how we can talk caringly and sensitively with our own children as we respond to their many questions. Arranged by theme, Dear Mister Rogers... includes letters asking questions about the world, feelings and fears, television, family relationships, and difficult situations. MORE Back To Top
	Different and the Same: Teaching to Prevent Prejudice A series of nine 15-minute videos for students in grades 1-3 to help children identify and prevent prejudice. Accompanied by an extensive Teacher's Guide and Training materials, it has won several awards and been used in school districts across the country. FCI is offering presentations and training workshops in support of these materials, often in collaboration with NCCJ and education organizations. A recent grant from the Howard Heinz Endowment will allow FCI to enhance the teacher support materials for this award-winning instructional series and explore the use of new technologies. FCI will also increase its promotion and training efforts. MORE Back To Top
	FamilyCares - Parenting Support Pamphlets A series of 12 easy-to-read, illustrated pamphlets on parenting issues, developed in conjunction with the Office of Child Development of the University of Pittsburgh, with the support of the Frank and Theresa Caplan Fund for Early Childhood Development and Parenting Education. These pamphlets are available in English and Spanish. Distribution of FamilyCares is supported by a grant from The Grable Foundation. MORE Back To Top
	First Experience Books An award-winning series of books for children, created to help families cope with new experiences. Titles include: Going on an Airplane; Going to Day Care; Going to the Dentist; Going to the Doctor; Going to the Hospital; Going to the Potty; Making Friends; Moving; The New Baby; and When a Pet Dies. Back To Top
	Foundations of Literacy An interactive DVD for college use on early literacy acquisition in young children (3-5 years old). The project is current underdevelopment and will be pilot testing in 2006. Back To Top
	Fred Rogers' Heroes: Who's Helping America's Children A 60-minute prime time television special for families. Back To Top
	Fred Rogers: America's Favorite Neighbor Many PBS stations around the country have broadcast this Emmy-nominated biography with extended clips and interviews that provide a touching overview of the history, personality, depth and impact of Fred Rogers. Hosted and narrated by screen star (and former Neighborhood stage-crew member!) Michael Keaton. MORE Back To Top
	From Lullabies to Literacy: The Importance of Relationships A new teacher-training workshop that helps adults understand how their relationships with children are vital in helping children develop language, appreciate books and reading, and learn to write. This new workshop features video segments from MISTER ROGERS' NEIGHBORHOOD and is available to PBS Ready to Learn coordinators and other trainers. MORE Back To Top
	Girls, Math and Science Partnership A multi-media outreach initiative to help eliminate the barriers that discourage girls from becoming full participants in today's technology-based work force. The project continues to expand in new directions including a new early-childhood teacher-training workshop focusing on curiosity and how adults can nurture its development. We're also creating a new Public-Awareness Campaign to counteract negative stereotypes about math and science and girls. Explanatoids signage continues to encourage middle school children in conversation about the science behind every-day things. This project is supported by grants from the Heinz Endowments and the Alcoa Foundation. MORE Back To Top
	Grow and Learn with Mister Rogers Books A series of 12 activity books for teachers published by McGraw-Hill that helps children learn about numbers and shapes, cultural traditions, cooking and science, the body and anatomy - and much more. Back To Top
	Let's Talk About It A series of four picture books for children and their families to encourage family communication about difficult subjects. Titles include Adoption; Divorce; Extraordinary Friends; and Stepfamilies. Published by Penguin Putnam Books. Back To Top
	Migrant Children: You Are Special A series of 3 videos and guide that addresses the special needs of preschool migrant children. Funded by the Pennsylvania Dept. of Education. MORE Back To Top
	Mister Rogers Talks with Parents About… A series of television specials for adults broadcast on PBS. Back To Top
	Mister Rogers' Neighborhood The longest-running children's program on television, MISTER ROGERS' NEIGHBORHOOD is seen around the country on over 300 PBS stations. Family Communications supports this much-loved children's program through web sites, training workshops, newsletters, newspaper and magazine articles, and appearances by David Newell (Mr. McFeely) and Hedda Sharapan (Associate Producer). A children's museum exhibit on MISTER ROGERS' NEIGHBORHOOD travels around the country, drawing young children and their families. Now, more than ever, the messages resonate with young children as a haven of warmth, reassurance, and calm in an often harried and hurried world, encouraging imagination, appreciation for the world and respect for our neighbors. MORE Back To Top
	Mister Rogers' Neighborhood Playspace In collaboration with FCI, Monroeville Mall, just east of Pittsburgh, PA, has created a soft play area for children based on the Neighborhood of Make-Believe. This 1,800 sq. foot play space provides children and families a place to enjoy, relax and play during their visits to the mall. MORE Back To Top
	Mister Rogers' Playtime An activity book to encourage children to create, explore, and pretend with dozens of easy-to-do activities. MORE Back To Top
	Museum Exhibit Our hands-on museum exhibit, where children and their families can explore a replica of Mister Rogers' television house and the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, is in its 5th year touring the country. This exhibit extends the timeless messages of MISTER ROGERS' NEIGHBORHOOD through an engaging hands-on experience. Building on its success and popularity, we've developed a proposal for a new traveling exhibit in partnership with the Pittsburgh Children's Museum and the University of Pittsburgh. MORE Back To Top
	National Preschool Anger Management Project A grant from the US Department of Health and Human Services will allow intensive support for the What Do You Do with the Mad that You Feel? training workshop for child care providers in two states. Train-the-trainer workshops will enrich the presentations, and special packages of materials will allow follow-through by workshop participants. Back To Top
	One Kind Word In cooperation with Family Resources of Pennsylvania and the Giant Eagle grocery chain, the One Kind Word project will create materials for store personnel to support parents during difficult times shopping with young children. How to keep possible injury and disruption to a minimum, while supporting rather than confronting parents is the main goal. MORE Back To Top
	One on One: Connecting Cops & Kids Our award-winning Safe Havens Training Project, helping adults deal with children who have witnessed violence, has expanded to include a second training workshop. ONE on ONE: Connecting Cops and Kids features documentary footage of real police officers interacting with children and teens while on the job. Developed through a unique collaboration including three urban police departments (New Haven, Boston and Pittsburgh) and mental health professionals, One on One helps to strengthen police interaction with young children, who often present on crime scenes. MORE Back To Top
	Partnerships for Change Four 90-minute training workshops on the basic philosophy of the Family Support movement. It was developed under a contract with the Office of Child Development of the University of Pittsburgh with support from the Howard Heinz Endowment and the Center for Schools and Communities. MORE Back To Top
	PBS Kids Mister Rogers' Neighborhood Web Site The PBS Kids MISTER ROGERS' NEIGHBORHOOD Web Site is a children's-oriented web site constantly being updated and refreshed with new online activities that children can enjoy with their caregivers. Just recently, the parents and teachers area of the website has been expanded to provide adults with insight into the child development messages of MISTER ROGERS' NEIGHBORHOOD and find ways to use those messages in their life and work with children. MORE Back To Top
	Safe Havens A three-part, video-based training program designed to provide caregivers with the support they need to help children feel safe, specifically for use with children who have witnessed violence in their community. The videos are mini-documentaries about children and violence. The workshops teach about children's responses to violence and offer practical strategies for supporting children and co-workers. With support from the U.S. Department of Education, FCI is presenting train-the-trainer sessions in two states and providing support for local trainings by those trainers attending the workshops. MORE Back To Top
	Scenes from a Shelter: Talking About Domestic Violence A package of 2 videos, a children's book and staff guide for use with young children who come to women's shelters. These materials were created for the Pennsylvania Coalition Against Domestic Violence and funded by the Vira A. Heinz Endowment. MORE Back To Top
	Taking Good Care of You Taking Good Care of You Training consists of four 90-minute workshops on basic health-care issues for early childhood professionals and childcare sites and was developed through a partnership between Family Communications, Inc. and the Western Pennsylvania Caring Foundation for Children. MORE Back To Top
	The Giving Box An award-winning book and collection box to help families nurture giving and receiving, charity and service. MORE Back To Top
	The Mister Rogers Parenting Book Published by Running Press Book Publishers, The Mister Rogers Parenting Book focuses on parenting issues for parents of 2 to 6 year olds. MORE Back To Top
	The Sky Above Mister Rogers' Neighborhood Developed in partnership with Pittsburgh's Carnegie Science Center, The Sky Above Mister Rogers' Neighborhood features the familiar Neighborhood of Make-Believe characters in 3D animation to introduce a planetarium's youngest visitors to the wonders of the sky. This 20- minute show is now being sold to planetariums throughout the country. Back To Top
	The World According to Mister Rogers Published by Hyperion Books, has been on the Best Sellers Lists around the country since its publication in October, 2003. This book contains excerpts of Fred Rogers’ speeches, program transcripts, books, letters, and interviews, along with some of his never-before-published writings that offers its readers, young and old, timeless wisdom. MORE Back To Top
	What Do You Do with the Mad that You Feel? A 2 1/2 hour training workshop for child care providers about helping children learn to manage their angry feelings. Originally developed for the Ready-to-Learn service at PBS, it has been widely used across the country. It was funded, in part, by a grant from the Dyson Foundation, and includes a CD-ROM containing a PowerPoint presentation of workshop "overheads" and PDF files of all handouts. To reach out to as broad an audience as possible, the project is now available in Spanish. MORE Back To Top
	When a Parent Has a Mental Illness A video, children's book and staff guide for use with young children, who have a parent with a mental illness. Produced in collaboration with Turtle Creek Mental Health/Mental Retardation and funded by the Vira A. Heinz Endowment. MORE Back To Top
	Won't You Be My Neighbor? A collection of 12 magnetic postcards of classic MISTER ROGERS' NEIGHBORHOOD scenes. MORE Back To Top
	You Are Special - Mini Book A mini-book version of some of the most inspiring sayings of Fred Rogers. MORE Back To Top
	You Are Special: Words of Wisdom from America's Most Beloved Neighbor A book for adults published by Viking Press. MORE Back To Top