We have also seen lots of unitended outcomes especially positive ones emerge from our family literacy efforts. Since we are community/state supported through collaborations and are limited in funding we cannot house numerous "components" as other federal or grant supported programs might.  However despite what might be perceived as obstacles,  the opportunity to enrich children starting with families has been eye opening.  Our state-funded preschool includes PACT in the schedule every morning
and from this wonderful involvement our preschool staff had the idea to start a parent resource library that basically included curriculum books, early childhood books, and books with tapes and games.  What started as a couple of books and items in the corner is now bustling with activity and is completely parent managed at the same time supporting home-based learning!  While home-based instruction can be very consuming in terms of resources for some programs, we stumbled upon it just allowing
our parents and children to "take the lead" which is great.   

Francesca Cabrera-Martinez
Coalition for Family Literacy
Bruce Drysdale 
834 N. Main Street
Tel: 698-5039
Cell: 388-1635

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