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),
• For State Indicators of Program Quality with respect to adults and children:
  http://dpi.wi.gov/forms/doc/f1765.doc (pp. 8-13)
• Grantees must compete in an open grant competition every four years.

For questions about this information, contact Monica D. Notaro (608) 267-9141

Last updated on 6/12/2008 3:02:04 PM