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National Head Start Family Literacy Center
 

Head Start has long recognized the importance of supporting parents' efforts to attain family self-sufficiency and serve as their child's first and most important teacher. This brief overview of the National Head Start Family Literacy Center (NHSFLC) provides Head Start staff and parents with information on the center’s role in promoting the tenets of family literacy throughout the Head Start community. NHSFLC’s goal is to advance family literacy by supporting parents in improving their adult literacy to foster within each family a love of reading and learning which nurtures the literacy development of children.

National Head Start Family Literacy Center

The National Head Start Family Literacy Center (NHSFLC) provides training and technical assistance to Head Start programs to improve the quality and positive outcomes of their family literacy efforts. According to the 1998 Head Start Act, family literacy has the following four components:

  • Interactive literacy activities between parents and their children
  • Training for parents on how to be the primary teacher for their children and full partners in the education of their children
  • Parent literacy training that leads to economic self–sufficiency
  • Age–appropriate education approaches that prepare children for success in school and life experiences

For more information, please contact:

National Head Start Family Literacy Center
CIHS, Sonoma State University
Eighty-One University Drive
Camarillo, CA 93012
Phone: 800-849-7810
Fax: 805-484-0855
Email: nhsflc@sonoma.edu

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    National Head Start Family Literacy Center (NHFLC)

National Head Start Family Literacy Center. Office of Head Start. 2006. English.
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