ImPACT- Family Literacy & Engagement

Program Overview

We believe that spending quality time with the "littles" in your life provides exceptional benefits. The research confirms what many parents and educators already know instinctively, "The simple act of reading aloud together helps create a lasting emotional connection, stimulates a child's cognitive development, and lays the groundwork for a lifelong love of reading and learning."

imPACT is a multigenerational family literacy and engagement program committed to diversity, equity and inclusion. The program provides participants access to in-person and virtual read-alouds of early childhood books and extension activities in English. Participants are concurrently enrolled in interactive parent engagement courses for grades PreK-12, delivered via a flexible mobile learning platform in their heritage language.

All classes are led by trained, bilingual-bicultural instructors skilled in bridging cultures and contextualizing content within the heritage culture. Bilingual instructors are equipped with the tools necessary to provide depth and breadth of learning experiences and help interpret cross-cultural nuances in parenting, child rearing, and expectations of parent involvement in schools.

Participants are encouraged, but not required, to enroll in cohorts led by instructors who speak their heritage language, in addition to English. All read alouds will be in English, however question and answer will be in participants' preferred language, ensuring understanding.

Training is available in the following languages: English Arabic Chinese (Mandarin) Haitian Creole & French, Somali, Spanish, and Vietnamese.

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