Sizemore is director at Family Resource Center

After nearly a month-and-a-half of serving as director at the Alleghany County Family Resource Center, Pam Sizemore finds herself fitting in nicely in the new position.

A former factory worker, Sizemore decided to go back to school after experiencing a layoff.

"It was the greatest decision of my life," she said. "I don't regret that whatsoever."

While finishing associates degree in human services at Wilkes Community College, Sizemore began working with the Partnership for Children, starting out as an administrative assistant, and then working as a program assistant. Immediately after receiving her associate's degree, she began working towards a bachelor's degree in human services through the GOAL program at Gardner-Webb. In the meantime, she continued to work as a program assistant. While working on the latter degree, Sizemore became a full-time employee at DANA (Domestic Abuse is Not Acceptable), where she worked as a victim case manager. Like the Family Resource Center, DANA too is under the "umbrella" of Partnership for Children. After working as a victim case manager for two years, Sizemore learned of an opening of a director's position at the FRC and opted to apply.

"The director's position is a step up position wise," Sizemore said. "It goes along with my field of training.

"Working with the Partnership (for Children) I was already involved in helping out some with the parenting programs that were already going on here at the Resource Center," she continued. "I already had a knowledge of what was going on here. It just seemed like the next step forward."

Programs

Becoming director of the FRC, Sizemore stated, "The Family Resource Center is offering a certain amount of wonderful things. The Resource Center also has a lot of potential to expand and that's what I'm looking at, the potential of expansion that's there, the things that could be utilized here that would serve the community as a whole.

"I want to pump the programs because there are so many people out there that don't know what's offered," she continued. "We're pretty much all new staff, so we're all excited. We want the best and we just want families to know that we're here. There are a lot of families out there that are isolated."

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