Even Start

Family Literacy Program

Reading And Beyond, in a partnership with Balderas Elementary School of Fresno Unified School District, created the Even Start Family Literacy Program.  The program will serve thirty families living in the surrounding community.


Even Start is an education program for the Nation's low-income families that is designed to improve the academic achievement of young children and their parents, especially in the area of reading.


This program offers promise for helping to break the intergenerational cycle of poverty and low literacy in the Nation by combining four core components which make up family literacy:


  1. Bullet Early childhood education

  2. Bullet Adult literacy (adult basic and secondary-level education and/or instruction for English language learners)

  3. Bullet Parenting education

  4. Bullet Interactive literacy activities between parents and their children


Even Start supports family literacy services for parents with low literacy skills or who have limited English proficiency, and their children, primarily birth through age seven, and has three related goals:


  1. Bullet To help parents improve their literacy or basic educational skills

  2. Bullet To help parents become full partners in educating their children

  3. Bullet To assist children in reaching their full potential as learners


For more information, contact:


Jenny Brietigam

jbrietigam@readingandbeyond.org

 


Other E.C.E. Programs

Click on a program below to learn how our Early Childhood Education programs can give your children a head start.


  1. Bullet Small World Learning Center


  1. Bullet Home Visitation

Even Start Success Story

Julissa and Katherine