FAMILY LITERACY PROGRAM

Higher Horizons understands the importance of family literacy and its positive effects on the community. When parents and children work and learn together to improve literacy, together they build essential life skills that are crucial components of a better economic and social future. Higher Horizons created a Family Literacy Program through which families receive assistance in learning to speak, read and write English. Families come to nine-week family literacy programs offered in partnership with the Literacy Council of Northern Virginia. During each class, parents meet together for English language and literacy sessions while their children participate in developmentally appropriate activities. The two groups then come together for parent and child interaction activities. At the end of the nine-week session, a group product is created. Projects have included a cookbook and a collection of family stories.