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Family Literacy
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SPECIAL PROJECTS REPORT:
TEA Receives Family Literacy Grant
Texas is one of five states selected to receive a family literacy grant from the
U.S. Department of Education. The project, awarded to the Texas Education
Agency, is called Families First: The Texas Even Start Statewide Family
Literacy Initiative. The overall goal of the Families First: Texas Even Start
Statewide Family Literacy Initiative is to improve family literacy services by
building the capacity of local providers to coordinate and integrate existing
federal, state, and local literacy resources.
Planning, implementing, and evaluating the grant activities will be a joint
responsibility of the Texas Education Agency (the applicant agency) and its
partners in the Even Start Statewide Family Literacy Initiative Consortium.
State level partners of the Consortium include Texas Department of Health
and Human Services, Head Start State Collaboration Project, the Texas
Workforce Commission, the Texas Parent Teacher Association, the Texas Tech
University, Head Start Technical Assistance and Support Center, United Way
of Texas and the Texas Association for Literacy and Lifelong Learning. Local
partners of the Consortium include the Texas Family Literacy Assistance
Center at Baylor University, the Texas Center for Adult Literacy and Learning
at Texas A&M, Education Service Center Region IX, Community Action of
Hays, Blanco and Caldwell Counties, and Houston READ Commission, Corpus
Christi Independent School District, the City of San Antonio Department of
Community Initiatives, El Paso Community College, the Austin Area Urban
League, and Southwest Texas State University.
The objectives and activities of the Families First: The Texas Even Start
Statewide Family Literacy Initiative are to promote coordination and
integration of resources for family literacy statewide; provide technical
assistance statewide to current and future family literacy programs; and
evaluate the initiatives. To accomplish these objectives, the grant activities
will include team building workshops to facilitate cross-agency collaboration,
interactive telecommunications broadcasts, on-site technical assistance,
technical assistance publications, and day-to-day technical assistance through
an electronic listserve dedicated to Texas family literacy subscribers. Baylor
University and Texas A&M University are both subcontractors for the grant
and will be involved in these activities.
More information about each of the activities will be provided through
mailings, subsequent issues in this newsletter, the Adult Literacy
Clearinghouse, and the FamLit listserve. If you have questions, please feel
free to call the Division of Adult and Community Education at (512) 462-9294, the Texas Family Literacy Assistance Center at (800) 557-3522, or the
Texas Center for Adult Literacy and Learning, (800) 441-7323.
FamLit, a new family literacy listserv sponsored by the Texas Center for
Adult Literacy and Learning at Texas A&M
University, is an e-mail discussion list for practitioners (and others)
about family literacy in Texas.
To subscribe, send an e-mail message to:
listserve@tamvm1.tamu.edu
and in the body of the text write:
subscribe FamLit@tamu.edu firstname lastname
 
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