A Two-Part Workshop Program

NCCL’s Parents and Families at the Center of Faith Formation Project is a Lilly Endowment, Inc. grant-funded project designed to strengthen faith transmission at home in the first two decades of life, and to create parish communities that intentionally accompany and support parents and the whole family. The Project guides parish leaders in strengthening their parish community to accompany parents and the family in forming faith; and in designing a seamless approach to faith formation from birth through high school graduation by addressing the unique developmental and faith growth needs of young children, grade school children, young adolescents, and older adolescents.

Through the following two-part workshop program, NCCL guides parishes in creating new approaches that:

• Encourage parents/caregivers to grow in the Catholic faith as adults
• Equip parents/caregivers to build families that live Christian practices at home and in the world
• Engage parents/caregivers in learning how to become faith formers of their children and teens
• Involve the whole family in faith forming experiences and programs in the parish community
• Connect families with the other generations in the parish community through intergenerational faith forming experiences