Helping Families Learn is Everyone's Busine

The purpose of this document is to help literacy organizations that are considering implementing family-based programs in the workplace. The author describes a process to allow family literacy organizations and businesses to become partners in delivering such programs.

This document and its companion practitioner’s guide argue that the cycle of poor literacy skills can be broken only through programs that simultaneously address the literacy needs of parents and their children. The author notes that employees who participate in family literacy programs in the workplace gain the confidence to re-enter the learning system themselves.