Pictured: Families participating in Forty Carrots Family Center's Partners In Play at Lakewood Ranch Library. Provided photo.

With continued support from the Lakewood Ranch Community Foundation, Forty Carrots’ Partners In Play® (PIP) program is entering its third year at Lakewood Ranch Library. Serving 399 unduplicated children and families last year, PIP at Lakewood Ranch Library continues to provide a welcoming and supportive environment where play leads the way to empowering parents to nurture their children’s early learning while also strengthening parent-child relationships.PIP groups at Lakewood Ranch Library are ongoing on Fridays beginning at 12:30pm, welcoming any parent, grandparent, or caregiver with a child aged from babies to five years old.

Pictured: Families participating in Forty Carrots Family Center's Partners In Play at Lakewood Ranch Library. Provided photo.