Mission
The mission of the National Center for Family Literacy is to expand the number and improve the quality of family literacy services, creating educational and economic opportunity for parents and children at the lowest ends of the literacy and economic continua. In order to accomplish this, NCFL will work with administrators, policy makers, practitioners and funders to:
- Provide leadership for literacy development in families
- Promote policies at the national and state level to support literacy development in families
- Create and support systems that will help develop and sustain family literacy programs
- Design, develop and demonstrate new family literacy practices that address the needs of families in a changing social, demographic, economic and political landscape
- Deliver high-quality, dynamic, research-based professional development that includes training, technical assistance, and materials
- Identify and disseminate research to expand the knowledge base of family literacy
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