TELL ME A TALE: Prison Based Family Literacy Initiative
Family literacy programs can provide opportunities for education success for parents and children. These programs can serve as models of family involvement, showing how families can become part of an extended classroom and build on the work of the school. Engagement in family programs does not have to stop because a parent is incarcerated. The Carnegie Free Library of Beaver Falls in partnership with the Beaver County Bar Association and TRAILS Ministries are working on an innovative family literacy initiative. Tell Me A Tale: Prison Based Family Literacy Initiative developed by Christine Kroger, Children’s Librarian at the Carnegie Free Library…