Designed with families, for families
Astoria Love is a free Family Enrichment Center for people who live, work, or spend time in Astoria and nearby neighborhoods. It is a walk in space where parents, caregivers, youth, and neighbors can relax, learn, and build connections. Community co-design all offerings and events within the F.E.C..
Our Mission
- Lift up community voices so that the Astoria shapes how the center grows over time
- Co-design offerings with community that reflect their strengths, cultures, and ideas
- Provide practical supports such as workshops, one on one help, and resource navigation
- Build connections between neighbors, community partners, and local services
- Lift up family voices so that the community shapes how the center grows over time
The Astoria Love Team
Advisory Council
Astoria Love F.E.C. is a community-led community center, shaped by the voices and experiences of those it serves. This is made possible in large part by our Advisory Council, who act as the eyes and ears of the community. As engaged community members, they help the F.E.C. co-design offerings and play a key role in creating a warm, safe, and welcoming environment for everyone.
If you would like to join the Advisory Council, please get in touch with us here!
Staff
Meet the Astoria Love team, a caring group of coordinators, facilitators, and advocates dedicated to family wellbeing. We listen, collaborate, and create offerings with you, so every visit feels welcoming, respectful, and supportive.
5 Protective Factors
Astoria Love is part of a citywide network of Family Enrichment Centers. These centers focus on five protective factors that help families handle stress, feel connected, and support children as they grow.
Parental Resilience
Managing stress and functioning well - facilitated by individual, relational, community, or societal factors—when faced with stressors, adversity, or trauma.
Social Connections
Healthy, meaningful, trusting, and sustained relationships with people, institutions, communities, or a higher power that promote a sense of connectedness, belonging, and mattering.
Knowledge of Parenting, Youth & Child Development
Learning about prenatal, infant, and child development, and using developmentally, culturally, and contextually appropriate parenting/caregiving practices.
Concrete support
Helping families and youth identify, access, and advocate for high quality essential supports, including basic needs, specialized services, and mobility supports.
Social & Emotional Competence of Children and Youth
Supporting environments and experiences that build positive social skills, emotional regulation, problem-solving, and effective communication for children, teens, and young adults.