FRC | Tri-County Family Resource Center
The Tri-County Family Resource Center (FRC) serves as a comprehensive safety net and early academic support center for families navigating geographic isolation and socioeconomic hardships. Recognizing that strong families form the foundation of healthy communities, the FRC delivers multi-layered programs designed to foster structural resilience. The center hosts a highly structured after-school tutoring program for kindergarten through 5th-grade students, focusing on homework assistance, emotional regulation, and social interaction coaching while maintaining direct communication lines with school counselors and parents. In addition to youth programs, the FRC prioritizes family educational support and parent empowerment opportunities, offering ad hoc advocacy training and evidence-based summer programming. By acting as a central resource hub, the center helps households stabilize during financial crises, ensuring vulnerable rural families have continuous access to fresh nutrition, early childhood resources, and essential household support systems.
Our History
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Timeline: May 01, 2024–Ongoing.
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History: Formalized through an initial American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) commitment through the Potts Family Foundation spanning May 01, 2024, to Oct 31, 2026, the center has successfully expanded into a premier regional resource hub with operations actively moving through current FY2027 project request cycles.
Where We Serve
Garfield, Grant, and Alfalfa counties
Funding the Program
Financed through private foundation grants from the Potts Family Foundation (Know & Grow program) and federal funding distributed via American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) allocations.
Collaboration
Central Christian Church (former facility partner), Oklahoma State University (OSU) program evaluation team, regional public school districts, Regional Food Bank, Feed the Children, and the Tri-CHIO Steering Committee.
Family Stabilization:Â
Mitigate immediate structural and geographic vulnerabilities for rural households by operating a rapid-response resource safety net for nutrition, hygiene, and emergency aid.
Academic Equity:Â
Close the educational gaps amplified by rural isolation through state-standardized after-school tutoring, skill mastery remediation, and cognitive development coaching for elementary students.
Parent Empowerment:Â
Cultivate strong, parent-led community governance networks that directly embed lived family perspectives into early childhood development programming and local resource policy.
Early Childhood Resiliency:Â
Deliver evidence-based early childhood tracking and screening frameworks ("Know & Grow") to optimize developmental and school-readiness markers in rural youth populations.
The structured after-school tutoring program is specifically designed to support children from kindergarten through 5th grade. It operates in partnership with local school networks, such as Enid Public Schools, to provide homework assistance, emotional regulation, and social coaching directly to elementary students within Grant, Garfield, and Alfalfa counties.
The FRC actively hosts a dedicated Parent Advisory Committee (PAC). This committee serves as a core vehicle for parent empowerment, ensuring that the authentic voices, perspectives, and unique needs of local families directly steer early childhood strategic initiatives and community-driven programming.
In addition to providing daily meals and snacks to participating students through the Regional Food Bank, the FRC operates a direct food and resource safety net for vulnerable households. In partnership with organizations like Feed the Children, the center distributes essential household supplies, including laundry detergents, shampoos, conditioners, and lice treatment kits, alongside emergency grocery relief.
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Skills Mastered
Total core academic competencies successfully gained by elementary students.
152
Hours
Cumulative IXL learning time logged by students receiving targeted after-school tutoring.
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Families
Low-income households successfully stabilized with targeted emergency SNAP grocery gift cards.
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PAC Members
Consistent local parents actively serving on the Parent Advisory Committee.
Facts & Figures
Key Achievements & Community Impact
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Formalized a highly engaged Parent Advisory Committee (PAC) to embed authentic family perspectives directly into early childhood strategic initiatives.
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Launched a highly productive Academic After-School Program serving K-5 students, resulting in direct, measurable competency gains tied to state standards.
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Deployed critical crisis relief to vulnerable regional households, providing targeted resource management and financial stewardship during periods of economic hardship.
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Executed intensive family focus groups in coordination with the OSU evaluation team to refine long-term multi-generational program sustainability models.
What Our Families Say
FRC Tutoring Program Parent
"The Family Resource Center's after school tutoring program has helped [our child] and our family tremendously. [Our child] struggles academically due to cognitive delays. Tutoring is providing [our child] a stress-free environment where he can learn at his own pace without feeling overwhelmed, anxious, or frustrated. Since [our child] began tutoring, he has improved academically at school and has gained a better understanding of his school work. The guidance and personal attention have strengthened his subject comprehension, his confidence, and learning skills while providing the motivation to complete his school work. "
FRC Tutoring Program Parent
"The Family Resource Center After-School Program has helped my. eleven-year-old son tremendously. I have noticed his willingness to learn has improved since starting the program. My son enjoys the positive and judgement-free environment that comes with the FRC program."
FRC Tutoring Program Parent
"[Our child's] reading scores at school have improved tremendously. She has more conficence in her school work. One improvement I can also see if when she's reading she doesn't get stuck on a word like she would before, and she's retaining more of what she's reading."