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Building Capacity and Forging Networks: Literacy and Parenting Skills Facilitator Training Program |
Kirsten Bennett et al.
The Literacy and Parenting Skills (LAPS) program is a family literacy initiative that was developed out of an identified need to reach at-risk parents, improve literacy skills, offer strategies to help adults read more with their children, provide parenting education, and assist with the transition into further education. Facilitators have been trained across Canada to lead LAPS programs within diverse communities which face low literacy as well as other socio-economic barriers.
This research report, funded by the National Office of Literacy and Learning, documents the spread and reach of facilitator training in terms of program effectiveness and the subsequent use of training in family literacy initiatives by those who have attended the workshops. It also investigates challenges faced in front-line administration of LAPS programs and the diversity of families in which it has been adapted to serve.
Of interest to family literacy programmers, funders, and practitioners, this report includes the findings of survey, interview, and focus group research conducted in western Canada between March and June of 2007. It also contains a return on investment analysis followed by a set of recommendations intended to enhance facilitator training, program outreach, and network building.
Published August 2007 ♦ Download (PDF) ♦ |
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