Pima College Adult Education’s (PCAE) Family Literacy Program (FLP) has been providing high-intensity, comprehensive, and integrated Family Literacy services in Pima County since 1991. The mission of the FLP is “Teach the parent, reach the child, change the future.” The FLP has been a local, statewide, and national role model of a stellar, award-winning program, fostering family economic and educational success, independence, and pride. What began as a three-site program through a Toyota Motor Corporation grant from the National Center for Family Literacy (NCFL) has grown to nine current sites with multiple funding sources. PCAE is the fiscal agent and grant recipient for five sites, while also providing adult education, training, coordination, and data collection for an additional four sites in the Sunnyside Unified School District (SUSD). Additionally, the FLP was chosen as a statewide Family Literacy mentoring program for eight consecutive years, has a National Center for Family Literacy (NCFL) certified trainer, was selected by the NCFL for two Toyota program grant awards, and presents at local and national conferences to standing-room-only crowds. The FLP has also been successfully administering an AmeriCorps program since 1994. Students in the Family Literacy Program regularly exceed the academic state target goals.
Jutta Ulrich, Vice-President, Health Guide America www.hgamerica.org – (602) 738-9064, julrich@hgamerica.org
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