Parent Services

The American Academy of Pediatrics offers health related research, product safety recalls and the current recommended immunization schedule. The read me a story page includes a reading check-up. The check-up helps evaluate their children's progress through six stages of reading development, from picture-pointing to independent reading. Each checkup describes the knowledge and skills that most children demonstrate at a given stage, and suggests how they can be nurtured.
BRIDGES TO LITERACY: Early Routines That Promote Later School Success
NC Family Literacy Consortium (Even Start Statewide Family Literacy Initiative): The Consortium will establish the state 's vision for family literacy; provide leadership in program, professional, and resource development; and be an advocate for family literacy. The goal of the North Carolina Family Literacy Consortium is to formalize the existing alliance of public and private agencies into a sustainable North Carolina Family Literacy Consortium that coordinates and integrates activities from federal, state and local resources to strengthen and expand family literacy services throughout the state.
National Center for Family Literacy: The National Center for Family Literacy is a nonprofit organization supporting family literacy services for families across the United State through programming, training, research, advocacy and dissemination.
Joining Together in Literacy Learning: Teenage Mothers and Children. Parent Education A model for child literacy development.
Parents' Literacy and Their Children's Success in School: Recent Research, Promising Practices, and Research. Implications by the Office of Research, Office Educational Research and Improvement (OERI) of the U.S. Department of Education., 1993 Conclusions: (1) Low-literate parents, particularly mothers, are more likely to exert a positive influence on their children ' s academic achievement when they are able to enhance their own literacy skills. (2) Intervention programs should be designed to enable family members to construct useful meanings and definitions of literacy.

For more information please contact

Rose Powers
Program Administrator
860-2277