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Educational Programs
Adult Education
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Focusing on GED and basic skills training
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The model calls for an approach that connects to the daily lives of the participants. Instructors focus on particular skill level of each adult and seek to increase their competency.
Parent Time
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Blends the goals of parent support groups and parent education groups to meet the personal needs of families.
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Provides quality time and a safe place to educate parents on current issues impacting families, provide opportunities for mutual support, and to offers advocacy for services to families.
Vocational
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Prepares participants for employment or for pursuing further education.
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Parents focus on skills including goal setting, applications, resumes, interviewing, job retention and workplace ethics.
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Parents work as volunteers in an area of interest at a assigned work place through partnership with local agencies.
Early Childhood
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A developmentally appropriate program for children attending a preschool.
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Focusing on the child’s broad developmental skills that emerge during the formative preschool years.
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Children are taught critical thinking skills that may be used throughout a lifetime.
Parent & Child Together
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Offers parents and children an opportunity to work and play together as a family unit.
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Parents learn with and from their children, offering them a chance to become true partners in their education.
Family Literacy Program Locations:
Carter G. Woodson Elementary School, Atlanta, Georgia (completed)
J. W. Dobbs Elementary School, Atlanta, Georgia (current)
Bethune Elementary School, Atlanta, Georgia (future project)
Dunbar Elementary School, Atlanta, Georgia (future project)
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