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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
David Struett

‘Rock star’ of family support services, Bernice Weissbourd, dies at 99

Bernice Weissbourd, founder of Family Focus center, in 1977. The first Family Focus center opened in Evanston in 1976. Today there are 11 centers in the Chicago area. (Sun-Times file photo)

Bernice Weissbourd was a champion of early childhood development programs who understood that parents need to be educated as much as children to help them both thrive.

She popularized the idea that the first three years of a child’s life are critical to their development and later success in life and that the relationship between child and parent is paramount.

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