Even Start Family Literacy

Overview

Even Start Family Literacy (ESFL) projects are school-community partnerships that help break the cycle of poverty and low literacy by integrating early childhood education, adult basic education, and parent education into a comprehensive program. ESFL implementation requires cooperative projects to fill gaps in existing high-quality community resources. Programs provide services with sufficient hours and duration to make sustainable changes in a family through basic instructional programs that

• enrich language development, extend learning, and support high levels of educational success and
• provide integrated instruction for families so children and parents learn together to develop habits of life-long learning and economic independence.

Program Elements

• For a list of 15 program elements for local administration required by federal law:
  http://dpi.wi.gov/titleone/doc/fed_guidance.doc (pp. 17-23),
• Grantees must compete in an open grant competition every four years.
  See Forms, Applications, and Guidance for the 2010 Grant Application.

For questions about this information, contact Jennifer Waldner (608) 266-5184

Last updated on 7/11/2011 9:24:17 AM