The First Lady's Family Literacy Initiative for Texas

A Program of The Barbara Bush Texas Fund for Family Literacy

2008 Texas Grant Recipients

• AUSTIN COMMUNITY COLLEGE, AUSTIN
  The ACC Family Literacy Partnership in collaboration with Communities in Schools will expand the current family literacy project by incorporating computer-based instruction and basic computer skills at the Lucy Read Demonstration School in Austin.
• AUSTIN LEARNING ACADEMY, AUSTIN
  The Family Literacy Project will replicate its family literacy model at a new site, Langford Elementary, and will include an additional Early Childhood Instructor and Parent Specialist.
• AVANCE, WACO
  Proyecto de Literatura Familia/Family Literacy Project will serve 65 mothers and their children who are living below poverty level.  The project will add a literacy facilitator who will make home visits, and ten laptops will be purchased that can be taken home by families.
• BRYAN INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT, BRYAN
  The BISD Project Connect will provide families with opportunities to visit local museums and sites of interest as a means of increasing the oral language development of preschool children.
• CARRIZO SPRINGS INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT, CARRIZO SPRINGS
  The PACT for Literacy Program projectwill expand the existing program to two new sites, add a parent/child together component, and provide transportation for families from two outlying communities.
• COMMUNITY ACTION, INC. OF HAYS, CALDWELL & BLANCO COUNTIES, SAN MARCOS
  Caldwell County Head Start Family Literacy Project will provide Head Start staff with family literacy training and offer parent/child activities at two outlying sites.
• CORPUS CHRISTI INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT, CORPUS CHRISTI
  The Family Literacy Program will add a Family Literacy Support Specialist to the staff and implement a home visiting component to their long standing program at the Corpus Christi Adult Learning Center.
• MI ESCUELITA PRESCHOOL, DALLAS
  The Together We Learn project will expand Mi Escuelita’s well-established family literacy program to an additional site.
• MT. PLEASANT INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT, MT. PLEASANT
  The Growing Minds: Mentes Crecientes project will offer Head Start families a comprehensive family literacy program which includes the opportunity to build a home library.
• PLANO INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT, PLANO
  The Plano Family Literacy Program will increase the number of families served and resume home visits which will provide literacy materials and activities to families.

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