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The
Learning Source for Adults and Families
2004/05 Family Literacy Programs
 Since
1989, The Learning Source has been in the forefront of the development
of family literacy programs in metro Denver that have been recognized
by the Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy and the National
Center for Family Literacy in Louisville, Kentucky.
- In partnership
with the Aurora Public Schools Title I Department, we are in year 2
of the Toyota Families in Schools national project to bring family literacy
into schools with high populations of non-native English-speaking/low
literate families. Parents come to school with their children, learn
to speak English and help their children become successful at these
three Aurora schools:
Fulton
Elementary School
Jamaica Elementary School
Laredo Elementary School
- A forth site in
Lakewood, the Belmar Family Learning Center, works
with parents who come to school with their infants, toddlers and pre-schoolers.
Partnerships are in place with neighborhood elementary schools for the
operation of this center.
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2004/05
Family Profile
- 229
families enrolled in the program
- Ethnicity:
96% Hispanic, 4% Other
- 97%
speak Spanish in the home
- Average
age of adults: 31
- Gender:
2% men, 98% women
- Marital
Status: 86% married, 5% never married, 1% widowed,
0% divorced, 5% separated, 3% other
- Highest
grade completed in school: Average 8.6, Range 0 –
13.0
- During
the course of the schoolyear parents reported significant
increases in their participation in school activities.
By the last month of school parents demonstrated a
40% increase in classroom observation; 21% increase
in participation in after school events.
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