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The Family Learning Center |
The Family Learning Center is a comprehensive family literacy program for parents with children under 5 years old who do not have a high school diploma or GED.
The Family Learning Center is designed to help parents that want to work toward their GED but have young infants or children at home. Parents participate in adult education classes, computer lab and other parenting and literacy-related activities while their infants and young children play and learn with other children in an on-site Early Head Start program operated by Community Action's Parent Child Development Center. Family Literacy is supported at home through home visits.
The purpose of the Family Learning Center is to support parents in their role as their child's first and best teacher. The goal is education and employment success for parents and school readiness and success for children. Participants are actively involved in decisions regarding curriculum and program design to ensure that the program is truly meeting family needs. The staff of qualified adult and early childhood educators and home visitors all work together to support individual family goals. The Family Learning Center program is free and available to Franklin County and North Quabbin residents.
Community Action administers this program in collaboration with the Family Literacy Collaborative whose members include: Community Action's Healthy Families, Early Head Start, The Parent-Child Home Program, and Franklin County Family Network; Greenfield Public Schools; Gill-Montague Regional School District; The Literacy Project; Greenfield Community College; Franklin/Hampshire Career Center; Franklin County House of Corrections; MA Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children; Montague Catholic Social Ministries; REACH, the early intervention proram of ServiceNet, Center for New Americans, Greenfield Public Library, United ARC, Corporation for Public Management; and Massachusetts Department of Transitional Assistance.
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