Blue Ridge Partnership for Children

Yancey County resident Magnolia Burleson, 4, poses in Spruce Pine Riverside Park with her Imagination Library book in front of a life-size cut-out of program founder, Dolly Parton. (MNJ photo/Juliana Walker)

Yancey County resident Magnolia Burleson, 4, poses in Spruce Pine Riverside Park with her Imagination Library book in front of a life-size cut-out of program founder, Dolly Parton. (MNJ photo/Juliana Walker)

Imagination Library hits milestone

Juliana Walker
Wednesday, February 10, 2021
SPRUCE PINE —The Blue Ridge Partnership for Children recently provided its 200,000th book through the Imagination Library Program. Imagination Library, a program founded by Dolly Parton in 1995, provides children with a free book in the mail from birth until their fifth birthday.
Early childhood education students at Mitchell High School lsiten intently as Ruthie Styles, Community Development Manager for the Blue Ridge Partnership for Children, addresses the class virtually. The students usually go on an annual field trip to the BRPFC, which is located in Burnsville. With the trip canceled this year due to the ongoing pandemic, the BRPFC brought the field trip to them by communicating completely virtually. (Submitted photo)

Early childhood education students at Mitchell High School lsiten intently as Ruthie Styles, Community Development Manager for the Blue Ridge Partnership for Children, addresses the class virtually. The students usually go on an annual field trip to the BRPFC, which is located in Burnsville. With the trip canceled this year due to the ongoing pandemic, the BRPFC brought the field trip to them by communicating completely virtually. (Submitted photo)

Students take virtual field trip with BRPFC

Mitchell News-Journal
Wednesday, November 4, 2020
LEDGER — Mitchell High School’s early childhood education classes weren’t able to go on their annual field trip to the Blue Ridge Partnership for Children in Burnsville this past August, so BRPFC came to them.  On Monday, Oct.
Blue Ridge Partnership for Children has received an AMY Wellness Foundation grant to expand Healthy Families. Pictured are Tonya and Christopher Franklin. (Submitted)

Blue Ridge Partnership for Children has received an AMY Wellness Foundation grant to expand Healthy Families. Pictured are Tonya and Christopher Franklin. (Submitted)

BRPC gets grant to expand Health Families

Mitchell News-Journal
Thursday, November 21, 2019
The Blue Ridge Partnership for Children, or BRPFC, announced in a press release the receipt of an AMY Wellness Foundation grant. BRPFC applied for the funding to expand the home-visitation Healthy Families program into Avery County.