Our Even Start Family Literacy Program is a community
partnership that helps break the cycle of poverty and illiteracy
by integrating early childhood education, home visitation,
parent/child interactive literacy activities, adult education,
and parenting education into a unified family literacy program.
Our programs help children and families achieve academic and
social success by enriching language development, extending
learning, and supporting high levels of educational success for
children and their parents. Through parental involvement,
parents learn to be their child’s teacher and advocate. Our
programs allow children and parents to learn together and
develop habits of life-long learning. Families can participate
in the program from the birth of the child until age 7 . Even
Start is implemented nationally through cooperative projects
that build on high-quality existing community resources,
creating a new range of services for children, families and
adults. Programs help children and families achieve the