Return-Path: <nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id e9JJbC916352; Thu, 19 Oct 2000 15:37:12 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 15:37:12 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <l03120604b614b7229265@[10.10.175.158]> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: Sarah Beaman-Jones <sbeaman@webster.edu> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-FAMILY:3225] Re: one question X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Status: O Content-Length: 1193 Lines: 28 This is not exactly an answer to your many faceted question..... > We are working to develop a book on starting a family literacy program in > Missouri-it's about to go to press. Jeri Levesque and I were talking and > trying to figure out the best way to integrate family literacy in various > state departments. She said, "What is the one thing we can say that will > help communities start a f. l. program?" I replied, "It has been my > experience that if one dedicated woman decides that is what she > wants, that is what happens. Every successful f. l. program in this >state owes its > exsistence to the perserverance of a single dedicated woman." It is like > starting a business. One person brings it into exsistence through hard > work and effort. But after that entrepreneural phase is complete, a new > type of leader usually takes over. One who can manage, develop > systems and take that sucessful business into the institutional phase. >Our problem is > how to institutionalize family literacy once it is started. > Sarah Beaman-Jones Family Literacy Specialist LIFT-Missouri 500 Northwest Plaza, Suite 601 St. Louis, MO 63047 1-800-729-4443 http://lift-missouri.org
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