Even Start Family Literacy

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Even Start Family Literacy

• Principles
• Serving the youngest in the community will
  provide school readiness.
• Literacy training begins in the home.
• The parent is the childs first teacher.
• Parent literacy leads to economic
• self-sufficiency.
• Economic self-sufficiency benefits all
  communities.

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Even Start Family Literacy

• Even Start is built on the premise of families
  growing together to create a life long love of
  learning. It strives to increase individual
  confidences, enabling families to achieve their
  educational and employment goals.

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Even Start

• Center-based activities promote parent and child
  interactive time, hands on learning, and
  parenting.

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Even Start Families Served

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25 Families 56 Children 3 New Families In
Enrollment Process 6 Families on Waiting List
for Service
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Even Start Family Literacy

• School Districts Served

Malone Brushton-Moira St. Regis Falls Salmon
River Chateaugay
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• FREE to Participants
• Stretch Food Dollars Food Stamps
• Plan Cook Healthy Tasty Meals
• Cooking for 1, 2 or More
• Nutrition for All Ages
• Limited Income Individuals Families
• Pregnant Nursing Moms
• Seniors
• In-Home Group Lessons

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• Programs
• Eating Right is Basic Holistic Approach to
  Improving Nutrition On A Budget
• Money Work Promoting Savings, Money Management
  Improved Nutrition
• Breastfeeding Education Knowledge Support for
  New Expecting Moms
• Cooking Up Fun Nutritious Cooking for Preteens
• Color Me Healthy Physically Active Preschoolers
  Trying New Foods
• Sisters In Health Focus on Quick Tasty Ways
  to Prepare Fruits Vegetables, Practice Cooking
  Skills

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• People Served
• 170 Families Served
• 333 Family Members
• 3 Breastfeeding Moms
• 84 Head Start Children
• 42 Youth
• 10 Seniors

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• Communities Served
• Malone
• Akwesasne
• Saranac Lake
• Tupper Lake
• Chateaugay
• Brainardsville
• Bombay
• Farmers Markets
• Even Start

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Collaborating Agencies

• Head Start
• JCEO
• Akwesasne
• OneWorkSource
• WIC
• Catholic Charities
• Wead Library
• Families-R-Us

• Franklin, Essex, Hamilton, BOCES
• Cerebral Palsy of the North Country
• Akwesasne Boys and Girls Club
• Lets Get Healthy-Akwesasne
• Community Intervention Partnership of Franklin
  County
• Franklin County Public Health
• Malone Adult Center
• Community Schools
• Early Intervention
• Literacy Volunteers