Family School
Family School is a family literacy program offered through a collaboration of two District 196 Community Education programs: Early Childhood Family Education (ECFE) and Adult Basic Education (ABE). Family School is an educational program that seeks to increase the literacy skills of adults, provide quality educational experiences for their children and assist parents as their child’s first teacher. The program includes the four components of adult literacy: 1) adult literacy in the form of English, GED or high school diploma classes, 2) parent education classes, 3) parent-child interaction time, and 4) children’s education.
Types of Services
Family Literacy Classes
Offered 4 mornings per week at the Grace and Rahncliff Learning Center sites.
An evening program is offered 2 evenings per week at the Grace site.
Referrals
Made to other adult education services and early childhood services are made when adults have reached their educational goals in the program, when there is a waiting list for getting into Family School or when other services are a better fit for the family.
