Children First Family Literacy is a proven intergenerational approach that improves the literacy, language and life skills of both parents and children

Children First Family Literacy directly addresses five compelling national statistics:

• Parental literacy is one of the single most important indicators of a child’s success (children whose parents are functionally illiterate are twice as likely to be functionally illiterate themselves).
  
• By age four, children living in poor families will have heard 32 million fewer words than children living in professional families.
  
• Long term research verifies that family literacy programs produce significant results:  Adults obtain and keep employment, a higher percentage of adults achieve GED/HSED equivalency, and the amount of literacy activity in the home increases by 80%
  
• High quality pre-kindergarten programs can significantly raise achievement levels, especially for children of low socioeconomic status—youngsters from families whose parents are poor and undereducated.
  
• Spending only $1 in the first years of a child’s life will make it possible to avoid spending $17 later in life by reducing special education placements, increasing graduation and employment rates, providing a more skilled workforce, and decreasing arrests and convictions…all of which result in an increased tax base.

1. Adult English Language Learning or pre-GED classes


2. Early Childhood Education


3. Parenting Education


4. Interactive Literacy Activities

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