[NIFL-FAMILY:3225] Re: one question

From: Sarah Beaman-Jones (sbeaman@webster.edu)
Date: Thu Oct 19 2000 - 15:37:12 EDT


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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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