What is the Even Start Family Literacy Program?
Even Start Family Literacy Programs are school-community partnerships that help break the cycle of poverty and illiteracy by integrating early childhood education, adult literacy or adult basic education, and parenting education into a unified family literacy program. Even Start is implemented nationally through cooperative projects that build on high-quality existing community resources, creating a new range of services for children, families and adults. Programs help children and families achieve the academic standards set forth by the States and use instructional programs that are based on scientifically- based reading research to enrich language development, extend learning, and support high levels of educational success for children birth to age seven and their parents; provide literacy services of sufficient hours and duration to make sustainable changes in a family; provide integrated instructional services for families, where children and their parents learn together to develop
The federally funded Even Start Family Literacy Program is a school-community partnership that helps break the cycle of poverty and illiteracy by integrating early childhood education, adult literacy or adult basic education, and parenting education into a unified family literacy program. Even Start is implemented through cooperative projects that build on high-quality existing community resources, creating a new range of services for children, adults, and families. The Program helps children and families achieve the academic standards set forth by the State and uses instructional programs that are based on scientific reading research to… • enrich language development, extend learning, and support high levels of educational success for children from birth through age eight and their parents; • provide literacy services of sufficient hours and duration to make sustainable changes in a family; • provide integrated instructional services for families, where children and their parents le
