MIGRANT EDUCATION EVEN START

The Migrant Education Even Start program offers four components: Interactive parent and child literacy activities (ILA), parenting education, early childhood education, and adult literacy (adult basic and secondary education, and English language training for parents with limited English proficiency). These components are carefully and comprehensively woven into a unified family literacy program with the purpose of breaking the cycle of poverty and illiteracy according to Title I, Part B, Subpart 3, Section 1232. These services are "of sufficient intensity in terms of hours, and of sufficient duration, to make sustainable changes in a family." Progress is documented in meeting program goals according to performance objectives and indicators established in accordance with the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) that relate to participant outcomes and project management, as well as, tremendous impact not measured statistically made in the lives of the families served.

Component 1: To provide interactive literacy activities between parents and their children which are designed to build knowledge of story grammar, environmental print and reading behaviors.

Component 2: To provide parent education for parents that consists of training regarding how to be the most important and primary teacher of their children and full partners in the education of their children.

Component 3: To provide parent literacy training that leads to economic self-sufficiency that includes English language training, adult education, job skills training, job search assistance and life skills instruction thus strengthening self-esteem and independence.

Component 4: To provide an age-appropriate education in the early childhood classes and in the home in an effort to prepare children for success in school and life experiences with emphasis in reading, and language skills that will enable them to achieve State content standards and student academic achievement standards.
 

 

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