The Barbara Bush Texas Fund for Family
Literacy:
The First Lady's Family Literacy Initiative
for Texas and
Texas Fund Discretionary Grants
The First Lady’s Family Literacy Initiative
for Texas
and
Texas Fund Discretionary Grants
“A child who can read is a child who can succeed in school
and in life. Parents demonstrate by participation and example that
reading is a joy and books are treasures,” said Mrs. Laura
Bush. “The impact these family programs have cannot be measured
simply by the number of participants, but more accurately by the
depth of change and lasting impact in communities across Texas.”
Laura Bush
Honorary Chair
The First Lady’s Family Literacy Initiative for Texas
ACCOMPLISHMENTS 1996 – 2006
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Over $2 million awarded to 110 family
literacy programs in eleven years.
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Programs funded in 64 different cities
across the state.
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Thousands of families actively participated
in these family literacy programs.
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Families in these programs now read more
often to their children and some who never read to their
children are now doing so.
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Families in these programs are using the
library for the first time or are using the library more
often.
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Grantees report that parents in the programs
are becoming more involved in day-to-day school activities
of their children.
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Adults in the programs are showing gains
in their own reading abilities. Many of the adults have
requested help in learning English and are improving these
skills. Others are working to prepare for or have passed
the GED and
report finding better job prospects.
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Teachers have commented that children
who have attended a family literacy program are better
prepared for school.
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Parents in the family literacy programs
were committed to work hard for their children’s
future, thus gaining a sense of accomplishment and hope
through their efforts.
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Many parents go on to obtain more stable
employment and further education, sometimes working in
their children’s schools as classroom assistants.
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Families in the family literacy programs
report that they are spending more time than before in
reading activities-and that they and their children are
ENJOYING IT!
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The First Lady’s Family Literacy Initiative for Texas,
a program of The Barbara Bush Texas Fund for Family Literacy, is a
statewide family literacy initiative designed to complement important
school reform efforts at the PreK-3 grade levels. Laura Bush serves
as Honorary Chair of this Initiative. The Texas Center for the Advancement
of Literacy and Learning at Texas A & M University
in College Station provides technical assistance to the family literacy
programs funded each year; administration and Initiative management
is provided by Pat Peebler, Grants Manager.
The home is the child’s first school, the parent is the child’s
first teacher, and reading is the child’s most important academic
skill. However, millions of adults in our nation lack important literacy
skills. Their lack of literacy skills not only severely limits the
quality of their own lives, but can also seriously limit the development
of literacy skills in their children.
A family literacy program can help break this cycle by providing
an educational setting in which parents and children learn and read
together. In a family literacy program, reading skills are taught to
parents, reading programs for children are provided, and parents are
assisted in using their newly acquired literacy skills to read to their
children and to establish a print-rich environment in their homes.
In 1996, Laura Bush launched The First Lady’s Family Literacy
Initiative for Texas. As of July, 2006, the Initiative had awarded
over $2 million to 110 programs across the state. Grantees include
school districts, community colleges, universities, charter schools,
pediatric medical clinics, Head Start and Even Start programs, community
based organizations, libraries, and prison programs. The money for
this Initiative is raised at the Barbara Bush Foundation’s
annual fundraisers, A Celebration of Reading, held in Dallas
and Houston.
These competitive grants are awarded to applicants who (1) have excellent
instructional reading programs for either adults of children already
in place, (2) focus on building critical reading skills for adults
and their young children, (3) promote family literacy activities, (4)
use validated assessment instruments to document gains, (5) demonstrate
fiscal accountability, (5) have other funds and support from the local
community.
Grants applications are available in February each year.
More information about The First Lady’s Family Literacy
Initiative for Texas can be found at www.barbarabushfoundation.com or www-tcall.tamu.edu.
For additional information contact:
The First Lady’s Family Literacy Initiative
for Texas
Pat Peebler, Grants Administrator
4400 Post Oak Parkway, Suite 1400
Houston, TX 77027
Ph: 713-336-7889 Fax: 713-336-7709
Email: ppeebler@mcnairgrp.com
GRANT RECIPIENTS - 2006
Advocacy Outreach, Elgin
Advocacy Outreach will expand the successful pilot project
that provides interventions in the domains of parent education, early
childhood education, and parent/child literacy interactions by adapting
the pilot curriculum to also address adult education.
Dallas Public Library, Dallas
The Reading Together Family Literacy Project will build on
the existing Adult Basic Education program at the North Oak Cliff Branch
of the Dallas Public Library by adding a children’s component
to create a complete family literacy program.
Everman Independent School District, Everman
The Reading is Succeeding – Leer es Poder Project is
designed to extend the existing child-centered reading program by establishing
a parent component and expanding the ESL program
to Hommel Elementary School.
Hays Consolidated Independent School District Even Start,
Kyle
The Padres Fastasticos is a project that will expand the current
Even Start program to serve more families by hiring additional staff,
providing “Book Share” kits for each family, and purchasing
children’s books.
Mi Escuelita Preschools, Inc., Dallas
The Together We Learn Project will establish a complete family
literacy program for limited English proficient adults and parents
of children enrolled in the preschool. The project will include a Parent
Training component as well as focusing on children’s reading
instruction and family reading time.
New Summerfield Independent School District, New Summerfield
FREE (Families
Reading for Education and Enjoyment) will enrich the current EL Civics
program by implementing a family literacy program to serve limited
English proficient parents and their children. The project will provide
children’s reading instruction and time for family reading.
Northeast Texas Community College, Mount Pleasant
The Families Sparkle Project will build on the current
literacy program with the Mount Pleasant ISD Community
Learning Center. In addition to reading instruction for children and
their parents, the project will incorporate computer training, workforce
readiness, and financial literacy.
Pearland Independent School District, Pearland
El Camino hacia El Ingles/Reading Road Program will expand
the current literacy program at the Lawhon Elementary School by providing
parent/child reading time. The goal of the project is to increase
children’s literacy by improving parents’ literacy building
skills and provide reading resources for the library.
Pilot Point Independent School District, Pilot Point
The district will collaborate with local community organizations to
establish The PEER Family Literacy Center at Selz Elementary.
The center will be equipped with resources for parents to research
and create materials to support reading instruction at school and
home.
The Rapoport Academy, Waco
The Readers to Leaders Family Literacy Project will build
on the existing literacy program by providing adult basic education
to parents of the students, and parent/child time for family reading
activities. The project will also expand the Parent Academy evening
events for parents.
GRANT RECIPIENTS - 2005
Austin Learning Academy, Austin
The Literacy for All Project will provide GED,
parenting, and technology classes, and family-based intergenerational
reading/literacy activities to economically disadvantaged parents and
their children at Campbell Elementary School.
AVANCE-Dallas
The TEEM Project will
enhance the existing family literacy program by incorporating the Texas
Early Education Model at Gabe P. Allen Elementary School, and expand
the existing family literacy program to David G. Burnet Elementary
School.
Commerce Elementary School, Commerce
The Families and Children Together Project is designed
to establish a family literacy program serving at-risk children and
their parents by providing GED, ESL,
and parenting classes, as well as children’s early literacy instruction.
Parents and children will participate in family reading nights to promote
family involvement in reading.
East Fort Worth Montessori Charter School, Fort Worth
HIPPY Enhancement is
a project that will enhance the current Even Start program by adding
two HIPPY home
instructors, providing curriculum materials, and a parent check out
library.
Epps Island Elementary School, Houston
Project ¡Leer! Literacy Events for Early Reading,
is designed to provide adult EL Civics
classes, preschool early literacy instruction and family literacy
training to economically disadvantaged families. Parent workshops
will be conducted using the Partners in Print program that prepares
parents to help their children become successful readers.
Houston Gateway Academy, Houston
The Family Literacy Learning Community Project will
implement a family literacy program to augment current adult reading
instruction provided to limited English proficient parents. A parent
mentoring program will be established, which will include Saturday
Parent Academy.
MedinaValley Even Start and Castroville Public Library, Castroville
The Medina Valley Literacy, Learning, Success Project is a
collaborative effort between the Castroville Library and MedinaValley
Even Start program to provide intergenerational reading activities
for families participating in the Even Start program. The project will
include Family Literacy Nights, and will distribute free books to participants.
Sun Valley Elementary School, San Antonio
Project 66 is designed to establish a Family Literacy Center
to provide reading instruction to economically disadvantaged parents
and their children. The project will provide GED/ESL classes
for adults, and a “Reading Buddies” program for children,
in which they practice reading with their parents or caregivers.
Texas Inmate Families Association, Inc., Austin
The Storybook Project will build upon the successful existing
project which provides tutoring to incarcerated parents to help them
learn to read to their children by audio taping their reading of a
children’s book. Caregivers are taught to use the taped books
with the children to promote and support children’s acquisition
of early literacy skills.
21st Century Community Learning Center, Sulphur Springs
The Families Reading Together, Familias Le vendo Juntos Project is
a collaboration with the Boys and Girls Club of Sulphur Springs to
expand the existing family literacy program. Additional reading instruction
classes will be provided to serve more at-risk families at the Boys
and Girls Club location.
GRANT RECIPIENTS - 2004
Kate Bell Elementary School, Houston
BELL (Building
Excellence through Literacy and Learning) Project will provide ESL classes
for non-English speaking parents, while children will participate
in the Accelerated Reader program to increase their independent reading.
The project will build on the existing literacy and parent involvement
activities, and expand its Library Nights.
Bonner Elementary School, Tyler
The Engaging Families: Literacy for All Project will
expand the current family literacy program by providing additional ESL and
computer classes, children’s early literacy activities, homework
help, and tutorials.
Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD,
Farmers Branch
Family Literacy in Progress (FLIP) will
expand the existing literacy program by providing literacy training
for parents. The Latino Family Literacy Project materials (I
AM READY) will be used to encourage home literacy activities,
and take home literacy kits will be provided.
Cedar Ridge Charter School, Lometa
The Even Start Family Literacy Project will enhance
the current Even Start Family Literacy program with a focus on students
with learning disabilities. Teachers will receive training in the Orton-Gillingham
philosophy and The Herman Method.
Dallas Independent School District, Dallas
The Parent and Family Literacy Program will expand its services
to more non-English speaking families by adding additional staff and
upgrading instructional materials. More families will be offered reading
instruction at several sites in the district, and parent workshops
will provide take home materials for families.
Irving Independent School District, Irving
The Family Instruction, Support, and Training (FIRST)
Step Project will enable parents to teach their child
using the HIPPY curriculum,
first in their native language, and then in English. Parents will also
complete the lrving.Net ESL program
using Side-by-Side software.
Prairie View A&M University, Prairie View
The Children’s Creative Critical Thinking Skills Project will
develop a research based family literacy curriculum to help children
and parents master the critical thinking skills necessary for reading
comprehension.
San Antonio Can! High School, San Antonio
The Early Childhood Development Center and Adult Literacy Education program
will provide literacy and parenting skills for teenage mothers, and
pre-reading and language development for their children utilizing the LEAP curriculum.
Sisterhood of Faith in Action, Inc., Houston
The Acres Homes Even Start Expansion program will build on
the current Even start project by extending services to more families
and providing additional adult education classes. The project will
include home visits for participants using High Reach, Family First,
and Family Framework activities.
Victoria Independent School District Even Start, Victoria
The Family Connections Project will enhance the existing
Even Start program, by providing an intergenerational reading and writing
program. Enrichment activities such as fluency building, vocabulary,
and comprehension development will be provided, in addition to family
back packs.
GRANT RECIPIENTS - 2003
Denver City Independent School District, Denver City
The Yoakum County Family Literacy Project will expand
the existing family literacy program by implementing a technology-based
developmental reading instruction program for parents, and provide
opportunities for families to develop lifelong learning skills.
Leander Independent School District, Leander
The Parents and Children Together (PACT) Project is
designed to expand EL Civics
by providing parent/child reading together time, and reading instruction
to additional adults currently on a waiting list.
Literacy Council of Tyler, Tyler
The MotheRead/FatheRead Project will provide materials
and teacher training to expand the Even Start family literacy instruction
program to serve additional adults and children. The project will give
families the opportunity to acquire books for their home libraries.
Literacy Instruction for Texas, Dallas
Expanded Family Literacy is designed to expand the current
family literacy program to twelve preschool sites to serve additional
low-income families. The project will provide reading instruction
to adults, and Parent and Child Together workshops.
Medina Valley Even Start Family Literacy Program, LaCoste
The Medina Valley Literacy, Learning, Success Project will
reinforce the family literacy instruction program with the addition
of a reading specialist, and will provide books for families to take
home.
Nell Burks Elementary, McKinney
Reading Amigos is a project that will provide reading instruction
and parent training to non English speaking parents to enable them
to participate in their children’s learning experience. Books,
Book Backpacks, and school supply kits will be provided to families
to take home.
San Jacinto Community College South, Houston
The English Literacy for Families Project will develop
a replicable educational model to increase the English proficiency
level of the family unit, based on the premise that increased parental
participation in the child’s literacy learning experience will
enhance the child’s potential for success in school.
Sulphur Springs Independent School District, Sulphur Springs
Reading Without Barriers (Levendo sin Barreras) is designed
to expand the Even Start ESL classes
and PACT literacy
time by providing additional ESL classes.
The Project will collaborate with Sulphur Springs Technical Center
and Paris Junior College.
Tobias Elementary, Hays Consolidated Independent School District,
Kyle
Project Reaching FAR (Families
As Readers) will establish a community based literacy program
to provide adults the opportunity to develop literacy skills in English,
and provide time for parents and children to read together.
Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District, Uvalde
The Uvalde READS Project will implement a family
literacy instruction program which will target at-risk teen parents
and their children, and parents and children participating in Even
Start and Head Start. The program will focus on establishing a language
and print rich environment to improve language and reading skills of
participants.
GRANT RECIPIENTS - 2002
Burton Hill Elementary School, Fort Worth
The Burton Hill Elementary Literacy Project is designed to
establish a family literacy involvement program incorporating Direct
Intensive Instructional Reading and Adult Education/English as a Second
Language Curriculum into existing literacy instructional programs.
Cedar Hill Independent School District, Cedar Hill
The Extended Year Pre-K/Family Literacy Program Component Project will
enhance and expand the existing Cedar Hill Even Start Family Literacy
program by serving 50 additional families during the summer.
Condit Elementary School, Bellaire
The Opportunity for All Project, in collaboration
with the Houston Community College, and Williams Company, will implement
a comprehensive family literacy program for the families of students
with limited English proficiency.
Cuero ISD Learning
Connections Resource Center, Cuero
Cuero ISD will
establish The Learning Connections Resource Center to expand
the existing literacy program. The Resource Center will provide access
to books for disadvantaged families, and reinforce reading instruction
for children and their parents.
Family Services of Greater Houston, Houston
The Family Literacy Program will enhance the existing family
literacy program with the addition of early childhood educators to
implement pre-literacy instruction and intergenerational activities.
Garcia Elementary School, Grand Prairie
The Garcia Family Literacy Initiative Project will
implement a family literacy program to provide reading instruction
to adults, and training for parents to help their children as they
are learning to read.
Neighborhood Centers, Inc., Bellaire
The Head Start Family Literacy Partnership Project will
enhance its family literacy services by providing parent literacy instruction
and parent/child reading and literacy activities.
Pampa Independent School District, Pampa
The Pampa Family Literacy Project will expand the existing
family literacy program to include teen parents. The program will provide
child/parent reading focused activities for preschool children and
their parents.
Panola College Workforce and Continuing Education, Carthage
The Family Literacy Project will develop a family literacy
component in the adult education program by providing reading instruction
to children. Parents and their children will read together with books
provided by the program.
Paris Junior College, Paris
The Words to Success Project will offer reading classes
to adults and children who are residents of the Housing authority of
Paris Clovis Graves apartments. The program will include intergenerational
activities and computer literacy instruction.
GRANT RECIPIENTS - 2001
Basic English Inc., Dallas
The Basic English Jubilee Center Family Literacy Project will
expand services and create an inner city literacy network between the
Dallas public schools, Basic English, Inc. and collaborating education
and social service providers.
S. C. Red Elementary School, Houston Independent School District,
Houston
The Red Reading Project is designed to build upon a strong
reading curriculum and provide more extensive and comprehensive services
to economically disadvantaged students and their families.
Medical Center Charter School, Houston
The Family and School Initiative for Literacy is a project
that will include reading instruction for children and their parents,
along with interactive reading and learning time.
Mt. Pleasant Independent School District, Mt. Pleasant
S.M.A.R.T – Supporting
Meaningful Activities and Reading Together, is a project
offered through the school district’s Child Development Center.
In the project, children and their parents will develop literacy
skills through structured and interactive lessons based on the Language
Enrichment Activities Program.
Richardson Independent School District, Richardson
Even Start Family Literacy Program, HIPPY Component,
will expand the literacy program at Dobie Primary School. Parents
and children will participate in learning activities through adult
education classes and child development activities at the Family
Center at Dobie.
San Marcos Consolidated Independent School District, San Marcos
The Even Start Family Literacy Program will use literacy specialists
to provide instruction in children’s language and literacy development
through the Child Development center, while parents attend adult literacy
and parenting classes.
Santa Maria Independent School District, Santa Maria
The Laura Bush Family Literacy Program will provide disadvantaged
families with access to books and will reinforce reading instruction
for children and their parents. The Read With Me program will enable
families to take books home to read with their children.
Weatherford Independent School District, Weatherford
The WISD Family
Literacy Project is designed to develop reading skills of adults
and children through a comprehensive program of instruction. Individual
learning and intergenerational activities will include one-on-one
and small group reading, and computer training for parents and children.
Weslaco Independent School District, Weslaco
The Home-School & Community Family Literacy Dual Language Program will
provide an intensive and comprehensive literacy based dual language/reading
program, which includes parenting, and early childhood intervention
strategies.
Wichita Falls Independent School District, Wichita Falls
The Project Seed: A Head Start Family Literacy Parent Library Program will
enhance the established, intensive program of “prereading” and “premath” instruction
for children. Adult literacy classes will teach parents basic reading
skills, and parent education instruction wilt teach parents how to
help their child’s development of reading and math skills.
GRANT RECIPIENTS - 2000
South Elementary, Brownwood Independent School District, Brownwood
The FRIEND, Adult Literacy and Extended Day Program is an
expansion of the existing reading program to meet the needs in two
areas of concern - improving adult Literacy skills and promoting overall
Literacy activities. The program collaborates with Howard Payne University,
the Family Services Center, community groups, and local businesses.
Bryan Independent School District, Bryan
BISD Even
Start will enhance its existing program by adding an intensive
reading enrichment component for both parents and children and by
providing an intensive reading program for children of Even Start
participants.
Lake Worth Independent School District, Fort Worth
The TADPOLE Family
Literacy Program, or the Teaching and Developing Parental Opportunities
for Literacy and Education program, is a component of Lake Worth ISD’s
Even Start program which will allow the Even Start staff to teach
to all levels of literacy and provide continuity in learning processes.
Harlingen Consolidated Independent School District, Harlingen
Family Literacy is the Answer is designed to work with educational
programs within the school district to expand learning opportunities
for children and families. Program activities include reading instruction
using research-based curricula, and pre-reading activities for children.
Aldine Independent School District, Houston
Families Working with Their Children is an expansion of
the Aldine ISD Head
Start program to provide opportunities for adults to receive instruction
that develops literacy and numeracy skills.
Ridgecrest Elementary, Spring Branch Independent School district,
Houston
Ridgecrest Reading Academy will replicate and expand their
successful program. The program will help students and parents make
gains in reading levels and increase the amount and quality of family
reading activities. The program collaborates with the Harris County
Adult Education Department, the Houston Public Library-Ring Branch,
and Literacy Advance.
Plano Independent School District, Plano
A Circle of Learning: A Family Literacy Program is an Even
Start project in collaboration with the Practical Parent Education
program. Using certified instructors, the program will emphasize
research-based curricula, parent/child learning activities and home
visits.
Lamar Consolidated Independent School District, Rosenberg
Times to Treasure/Tiempos de Tesoros - Project Learn is
a family literacy program that includes adult literacy, GED,
English as a Second Language (ESL),
supplemental prekindergarten, and home visits as an extension of
classroom instruction tailored to each individual family’s
needs.
Northside Independent School District, San Antonio
The Even Start Family Literacy Program is a family-centered
education program that helps children reach their full potential as
learners, enables parents to become partners in their children’s
education, and provides literacy training for parents and their children.
The program collaborates with the PBS station KLRN, Family Alliance
Masters, Inc., and Northside Adult and Community Education.
Sulphur Springs Independent School District, Sulphur Springs
Leer es Poder/Reading is Power is designed to teach parents
to read in order to help their children learn to read. Intergenerational
activities will foster family reading experiences by providing family
literacy activities.
Grant Recipients - 1999
Brownsville Adult Literacy Council, Inc., Brownsville
Leer Y Crecer/Read and Grow, a multi-group collaboration,
uses adult ESL instruction,
work skills development, pre-reading and language development, and
intergenerational storytelling as vehicles for parents and their
children to become proficient in English.
Tuloso-Midway Independent School District, Corpus Christi
The Parent Reading Enrichment Program is a collaboration with
the Corpus Christi Literacy Council and the Adult Education Center
to increase the reading readiness of Pre-K children as well as the
literacy and parenting skills of their primary caregivers.
Diboll Independent School District, Diboll
The Family Reading Circle strengthens the intergenerational
component of Diboll’s Even Start project by providing additional
instruction, materials and literacy activities for families and implementing
family literacy home visits.
Fort Worth Independent School District, Fort Worth
The New Lives Family Literacy Project, a multi-group collaboration,
provides pregnant and parenting teens and their families with reading
instruction, pre-reading for children, and intergenerational literacy
activities.
Sundown Elementary School, Katy
The Spanish PRIDE Family Literacy Program expands the school’s
English PRIDE program by providing a one-on-one intensive reading intervention
program to limited English proficient students grades Pre K-3rd grade.
A Home to School Parent Family Literacy Center offers adult Spanish
literacy instruction, family literacy activities, and computer training.
Kermit Independent School District, Kermit
The Parent Resource Center improves the literacy skills of
children and their parents, and builds a strong home/school partnership
by providing ESL instruction,
family literacy nights, and reading programs with parents acting as
their children’s mentors.
Northside Independent School District, San Antonio
The Valley Hi Reading Academy is a collaborative effort that
provides extended day and summer instruction for children in K-3rd
grade who are reading below grade level, literacy instruction for their
parents, and intergenerational reading activities.
Sequin Independent School District, Sequin
The Family Literacy Resource Center, an expansion of the Even
Start Family Literacy Project, offers pre-reading instruction, GED and ESL instruction,
intergenerational activities, home visits and access to a variety of
literacy materials.
William Smith Sr. Tri-County Cdc, Inc., Stafford
This expansion of the collaborative Even Start Family Literacy Project
increases the number of families participating in adult education, ESL classes,
computer technology training, parent and
child together activities, and home visits.
Weslaco Public Library, Weslaco
Read 2000 expands the library’s summer reading program
by encouraging families from the adult literacy center and the district’s
summer school program to join. Family reading activities include
summer reading logs, computer-based reading instruction, and read-along
books and cassettes.
GRANT RECIPIENTS - 1998
Arlington ISD,
Arlington
Adult Literacy-Achieving Students (ALAS) is
a collaboration of Even Start, the library and Arlington Charities.
The effort builds on existing programs to reach 160 families at 7
sites to provide ESL and
literacy activities for primarily Hispanic families.
Austin Learning Academy, Austin
Read to Succeed is building upon the American Library Association’s
existing program through extensive community networks that provide
adult basic education, GED,
technology, parenting classes and early childhood education classes.
William B. Travis Elementary, Goose Creek CISD,
Baytown
Together We Learn is a collaboration of LVA,
Baytown Service League, and an Exxon station that uses teamwork among
students, parents, and teachers to provide ESL and GED,
and motivates parents to become involved in their children’s
education.
Burnet CISD, Burnet
Reading: A Family Affair (RAFA) is
a collaboration of the school district, 3 libraries, Head Start,
and the local Literacy Council to support parental involvement in
the schools.
Obadiah Knight Elementary, Dallas ISD,
Dallas
Intergenerational Fusion Makes Family Literacy links with
Dallas Partners in Education, Texas Woman’s University, and
Dallas Senior Citizens to support literacy activities in one of the
most economically disadvantaged areas of Dallas with 90% at-risk
children.
Ed White Elementary, Houston ISD,
Houston
Lifetime Readers is collaboration between Neuhaus Education
Center and an elementary school, which will provide intensive staff
training and family literacy instruction using a multi-sensory method
arid a post-program follow-up.
Spring ISD,
Houston
The Home and Family Literacy Project is the collaboration
of a school, church, community college, and the University of Houston,
which builds upon an existing program to provide intensive instruction,
home visits, and books for home libraries.
E.B. Reyna Elementary School, La Joya ISD,
La Joya
Family Learning At School/Home (FLASH) is
a project using research-based reading instruction with equal emphasis
on children, adults, and families, and focuses on 260 bilingual,
migrant, and at-risk children in grades 1-3 and their families.
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Lubbock
Red Raider Readers uses the nationally recognized Reach
Out and Read Program, a model which includes reading to children
in the waiting room of the pediatric clinic, giving new books to
pre-schoolers, and stressing to parents the importance of literacy,
as well as linking to the Lubbock Area Coalition for Literacy to
provide adult classes.
Nixon-Smiley CISD,
Nixon
School and Family: Partners in Literacy is a rural program
for families to learn together using the National Center for Family
Literacy model. It includes early childhood education, adult education,
parent time, parent/child together time and a family resource center.
GRANT RECIPIENTS - 1997
Communities In Schools – Central Texas, Austin
Harris Home Instruction Program for Preschool Youngsters (HIPPY) is
a program to improve families’ literacy skills using this nationally
recognized home-based program.
Martin’s Mill Elementary School, Ben Wheeler
Families and Children Together serves economically disadvantaged
and English-as-a-Second-Language families by providing basic skills
instruction as well as a print-rich environment for all children.
Deaf Action Center, Dallas
The Deaf Action Center Family Literacy Program provides literacy
services for PreK-3rd grade children and their parents or caregivers,
any or all of whom may be deaf.
Advocacy Outreach, Elgin
Parents and Children Enjoying Reading is a collaborative
effort with Elgin 1SD to improve the education of low-income families
by integrating early childhood education, adult basic education,
parenting education, parent-child interaction and support services
into a unified family literacy program.
Giddings Independent School District, Giddings
Learning in Family Environments is a mobile unit project
that transports literacy materials and instruction in English and
Spanish to a remote, underserved area.
University Of Texas Health Science Center, Houston
Bringing Literacy Home/Reach Out and Read is an established
pediatric-based literacy program that promotes early literacy skills
with preschool-age children and their parents.
Ralls Independent School District, Ralls
Project Light is a collaboration of school, library and
other community groups in a rural community which will provide computer-based
reading instruction and shared reading to improve the literacy level
of 21 families.
Taylor Independent School District, Taylor
Reading: A Family Affair is a project with the Taylor Pubic
Library that concentrates on improving literacy levels in 25 low
income families.
Woodville Independent School District, Woodville
Families Read to Succeed provides day care for pre-schoolers,
literacy classes for parents and grandparents, and an extension of
the classroom-reading program for students.
Yoakum Independent School District, Yoakum
The Yoakum Family Reading Project is a program that increases
reading at home and improves parents’ reading and behavior management
skills, while preparing children to learn to read.
GRANT RECIPIENTS - 1996
Parents Improving Children’s Environment, Bastrop
Literacy is Family Empowerment is a program that provides
literacy instruction to families with children in PreK-3rd grades
who are residents of the Housing Authority of Bastrop or involved
in the Cen-Tex Head Start Shiloh Center.
Beaumont Independent School District, Beaumont
Project 100: Mothers Read is a collaborative effort with
the Center for Creativity, Innovation and Leadership to promote family
literacy and empower parents to support the educational growth of
their children.
Bryan Independent School District, Bryan
The Family Literacy Program is a collaborative effort with
Region VI and the Department of Human Services that builds bridges
between existing adult literacy programs and Bryan ISD’s
Pre K-3 programs.
Decatur Independent School District, Decatur
Literacy for Everyone is a collaborative effort with the
Decatur Public Library Adult Literacy Program, Head Start, and the
Assumption Catholic Church to provide family literacy programs for
non-English speaking adults and their non-school age children.
Devine Independent School District, Devine
The Devine Family Literacy Project is a collaborative effort
with the Intercultural Development Research Association that identifies
children from homes where parents lack the skills to help with reading
or homework; it provides parent training and Free books for home-based
learning.
Ser-Ninos of Ser-Jobs for Progress, Inc., Houston
Family of Readers is a collaborative effort with Ser-Jobs
for Progress, Inc. that develops the literacy skills of limited English
proficient residents of the Gulfton Area of Houston whose children
attend a state charter school.
Burnet County Literacy Council, Marble Falls
Family Literacy Project is a collaborative effort with the
Ten County Adult and Continuing Education Co-op. Marble Falls Library,
Marble Falls ISD,
Head Start, and PRIDE to target educationally disadvantaged aunts
and families.
Casa De Amigos of Midland, Texas, Inc., Midland
Family Reading Project is a collaborative effort with the
Midland Adult Education and Literacy Consortium that offers family-centered
reading programs to families with a child in Pre K-3rd grades.
Northeast Texas Community College, Mt. Pleasant
Building a United Stance for Home Reading is a program that
provides reading instruction for families that speak English as a
second language.
Lamar County Coalition of Education, Business and Industry,
Paris
The Family Literacy Outreach Service Project is a collaborative
effort with Even Start and the Paris Public Library that increases
the reading skills of participants by providing summertime reading
programs.
The Barbara Bush Texas Fund for Family Literacy
and
The First Lady’s Family Literacy Initiative For Texas
4400 Post Oak Parkway, Suite 1400
Houston, TX 77027
Telephone: (713) 336.7889
Fax: (713) 336.7709
Email: ppeebler@mcnairgrp.com
Web Site: http://www.barbarabushfoundation.com
The Barbara Bush Texas Fund for Family Literacy
The Barbara Bush Texas Fund for Family Literacy was created
in 1999, in response to the enormous success of A Celebration of
Reading, and the generous support so many Texans have given to
help promote literacy across the nation. To date the Fund has awarded
almost $3 million in discretionary grants to 21 programs in Big Spring,
College Station, Dallas, El Paso, Houston, Jacksonville, Pasadena,
San Antonio, and Smithville.
GRANT RECIPIENTS-2006
Educational First Steps-Dallas
Enroll and work with young children of Hurricane Katrina evacuees at
the pre-school level.
The Houston Katrina/Rita Fund
Help schools in the Houston area successfully assimilate and educate
children displaced by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
Houston READ Commission
Establish a literacy collaborative focused on assisting storm victims
with literacy and workforce preparedness.
Reach Out & Read - Houston
Reach and serve families displaced by Hurricane Katrina by distributing
books through pediatric care providers.
GRANT RECIPIENTS - 2005
Reach Out & Read - Houston, University of Texas Health
Science Center, Houston
Reach Out and Read (ROR) -
Texas, established in 1999 as part of First Lady Laura Bush’s
Early Childhood Initiative for Texas, will increase the number of children
served by adding 20 new clinic sites each year. Doctors and health
practitioners in ROR clinics provide children’s books to primary
caregivers at every well baby visit for children at ages 6 months to
5 years.
La Casa de los Ninos-Barbara Bush
Community Family Centers, Houston
La Casa de los Ninos-Barbara Bush will be a new facility of the Centers,
and will house the Family Literacy Program, including early childhood
and adult education instruction. The goal is to address the demand
for quality childcare, adult literacy and English language instruction
in the Hispanic East End of Houston.
GRANT RECIPIENTS - 2004
KIPP SHINE Prep, Houston
KIPP Academy in Houston will create the nation’s first KIPP early
childhood and elementary school, KIPP SHINE Prep. The first class will
begin in the fall of 2004 with 95 children, and will include a strong
family literacy component.
AVANCE-El Paso
AVANCE-El Paso, an affiliate of the nationally recognized AVANCE program
based in San Antonio, will develop a model family literacy program
with a unique health literacy curriculum for the dual purposes of
developing literacy and promoting health.
George Bush Presidential Library And Museum, Education Department,
Texas A & M University, College Station
In addition to expanding the literacy element in all Education Department
programs, activities funded by this grant include coordination and
support of the Barbara Bush Literacy Corps.
GRANT RECIPIENTS - 2003
Project Impact, Pasadena
Project Impact, a program of Tegeler Career Center, is committed to
providing teen and adult mothers with the skills and resources necessary
to ensure their own academic achievement, as well as those necessary
for the healthy early development of their babies and young children.
Project LIFT (Literacy
in Families Together), Big Spring
Project LIFT will create a new intergenerational literacy program that
will include all members of the family. Project LIFT will be a structured,
intensive whole-family literacy program for special-needs students
and parents. Senior adult volunteers from the Local chapter of the
Retired Senior Volunteer Program will also be recruited, adding another
generation of support to families enrolled in this innovative program.
Barbara Bush Literacy Corps, College Station
The Barbara Bush Literacy Corps (BBLC)
at Texas A & M University is a partnership of groups interested
in promoting literacy and working to improve the quality of life in
the local community by increasing literacy awareness and improving
the literacy levels of all ages. The majority of the literacy volunteers
are enthusiastic Texas A & M students. The BBLC is an outreach
effort of The Museum Education Department at the George Bush Presidential
Library.
GRANT RECIPIENTS - 2002
The Laura Bush Foundation For America’s Libraries to
fund the purchase of books for school and classroom libraries throughout
the state of Texas.
Brownsville Independent School District, Adult Education
Division, to develop a system that will enable migrant workers
enrolled in adult literacy classes to continue their studies, as
they move from one working location to another throughout the state.
Literacy Advance of Houston, an affiliate of Laubach
Literacy Action, to recognize the fine work their volunteers do to
enable functionally illiterate adults and their children to develop
reading skills.
Dallas Independent School District to fund Reading
Is A Family Event at Thomas Jefferson High School, an after school
book reading program to teach teenage parents effective reading skills.
GRANT RECIPIENTS - 2001
Literacy for Life, Plano Public Library System,
to expand the Adult Literacy Program, housed at the Harrington Library,
by adding children and their parents recruited from the local Head
Start at the Meadows Elementary School.
Literacy for All, Jacksonville Literacy Council, Inc.,
to create a new family literacy program that addresses the language
and literacy needs of the Hispanic community, emphasizing the importance
and skills of reading to their children.
Houston Read Commission, in recognition of all the
hard and effective work they have done to bring the joys and benefits
of literacy to all of Houston’s citizens.
GRANT RECIPIENTS - 2000
Reach Out and Read Texas, at UT Houston Health Science
Center. This Program is the Texas branch of a research-based national
literacy program which “prescribes” parent-child reading
and distributes books as part of all well child visits, from birth
to 5 years of age.
Smithville Public Library, to enhance and expand
their 10 years of literacy services to the community by starting a
family literacy program.
Toyota Families in Schools, a cooperative venture
among Houston ISD,
Toyota Motor Company and the National Center for Family Literacy, which
brings parents of elementary school children to the school to read
and learn together.
GRANT RECIPIENTS - 1999
The Nehemiah Neighborhood Center, Houston, a community
center for children from the MacGregor Elementary School and their
families.
Project GRAD, a program in the Houston independent
School district which works in K-12 to prepare economically disadvantaged
students to attend college.
The Neuhaus Center, Houston, a teacher training
center for reading.
George I. Sanchez Charter School, Houston, a state-sponsored charter
school for at-risk students, many of whom have children.
