Catching Up Focus on Community Literacy

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Catching Up - Focus on Community Literacy

• Whats happening this year?
• National Center for Family Literacy Community
  Literacy Forum
• National Institute for Literacy Community
  Literacy Summit
• Literacy Powerline Community Literacy Retreat
• ProLiteracy America Community Literacy Workshop
  Series

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On-Going Technical Assistance

• Most frequently requested activities
• Literacy Powerline bi-monthly update
• Proposal review
• Board development
• Telephone conferencing
• Planning Q As
• Research information
• General problem solving
• Psychiatrist couch counseling!

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The Importance of Literacy

• None of the social or economic challenges we face
  as a nation can be overcome without assuring that
  all members of our society have the literacy
  skills they need.
• Literacy is essential
• for families to promote education and learning
  within the home
• for children to succeed in school

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The Importance of Literacy

• for people to become employed, self-sufficient
  and climb a career ladder
• for people to make informed decisions about
  civic, environmental and health issues
• for people to navigate in this new information
  and technological era
• for communities to combat the forces of poverty
  and crime

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What is the Solution?

• Community Literacy
• 100 Literacy
• through
• 100 Community Engagement

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What is Community Literacy?

• Community Literacy creates a discourse around
  shared problem-solving to unite communities to
  promote the vision of 100 percent literacy by 100
  percent community engagement.
• Community Literacy promotes coordinated literacy
  services of high quality, linked together to
  foster life-long-learning.

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What is Community Literacy?

• Community Literacy is the practice of
  incorporating literacy into all community
  initiatives to build healthy neighborhoods and
  successful families.
• Community Literacy includes all family members
  and all community stakeholders to promote
  personal success, economic, educational and
  social justice.
• Community Literacy allows people and
  organizations to do together what they cant do
  alone.

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Impact Model
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Background
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Current Reality

• All communities provide literacy services but few
  integrate the services within the structure of
  the community
• This results in a fragmented system driven by
  funding silos that are not aligned to each other
  or to broader community needs
• Communities expect literacy providers to take
  sole responsibility for literacy activities
  rather than fostering a spirit of community
  responsibility

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Engaging the Whole Community
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Trends

• Communities are moving away from fragmented
  services
• Regional literacy planning is becoming more
  common
• Programmatic infusion of literacy at the local
  level is increasing
• Community literacy coalitions are being initiated
  by coordinated local leadership
• Literacy is not considered the goal. It is the
  tool to accomplish the goal

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The Strategy of Infusion

• This is the practice of ensuring literacy
  outcomes in all community social services and
  initiatives, for instance
• Providing family literacy in all programs that
  support family success
• Offering computer, workforce or financial
  literacy in non-traditional neighborhood settings
  
• Including literacy in city and county planning
• Providing opportunities for 100 engagement

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Infusion Paradigm
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Lifelong Learning
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Mechanism of Transformation
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Who Are We at the Summit?

• Over 1700 programs
• Nearly 1 million learners

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Common Challenges

• Building Capacity
• Funding
• Community Awareness
• Building Collaboration

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Sources of Funding
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Coalition Activities
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• We celebrate you and the outstanding work you
  do!
• Sit back
• Relax
• Breathe
• Enjoy your colleagues
• Lets learn more together!