Family Literacy

        The purposes of Family Literacy are to:

          Break the cycle of illiteracy in families.

          Increase the literacy skills of adults.

          Provide quality-learning opportunities for children of adult participants.

          Assist parents in their role as the child’s first teacher.

          Increase economic self-sufficiency for adults.

These purposes are achieved by a program designed around educational components and core values. The separate educational components of Adult Basic Education (ABE), Early Childhood Family Education (ECFE), English Language Learning (ELL), and Head Start have merged to become a Family Literacy program, addressing the strengths and needs of the family by combining services.

Family Literacy combines these separate programs to serve the family as a whole in order to develop literacy skills in parents and children together. Staff members from the different disciplines meet regularly and frequently to plan and work together to provide programming that meets the needs of all participating family members.

Carver-Scott Educational Cooperative Adult Basic Education program participates with ISD 112, Eastern Carver County, and ISD 720, Shakopee, in Family Literacy programming.  Referrals are made to district ECFE programs.

Shakopee:  Patti (952) 496-5035

Chaska:  Teresa (952) 556-6228