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From: Virginia Tardaewether <tarv@exchange.chemeketa.edu>
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Subject: [NIFL-FAMILY:870] RE: Literacy for homeless families?
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I like Sylvan's comments. Homeless folks may need a place to wash clothes
and their bodies to feel comfortable within any public environment. At
least that is one barrier my homeless folks have shared with me.
Va
Virginia Tardaewether
Chemeketa {Place of Peace}
Outreach Instructor
Dallas, OR 97338
tarv@chemeketa.edu
503-316-3242
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From: Sylvan Rainwater [mailto:sylvan@cccchs.org]
Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 4:21 PM
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Subject: [NIFL-FAMILY:869] RE: Literacy for homeless families?
At 06:42 PM 03/12/2002 -0500, PRNancy@aol.com wrote:
>Yes, I'm hoping (as in holding-my-breath-hoping) that the County will help
>survey the parents so we can figure out exact needs, etc. For example,
>there might be space for an Even Start program right in the housing area,
>but that would mean that the families would never interact with the
>school. According to the County, that is a prime goal: that the adults
>will overcome their nausea at stepping foot on schoolgrounds and get over
>their fear of being involved. On the other hand, keeping such a program
>close to them would make it so, so much easier for them. That's just one
>trade-off in the many factors that can make or break a program, huh?
The reality is that many of our families need a transition to a school
environment. If you can create a relaxed, friendly place that is sort of
like school and sort of like family on their "home turf" that will make it
easier for them to venture out further. There are many ways to encourage
involvement with the school itself: field trips, home visits where someone
accompanies a parent and child to a school class, classroom instruction and
assignments about school conferences (have the parent answer questions
about the conference and/or have the teacher sign a form for the student to
bring back, practice dialogs, etc.).
One of our goals is to have parents transition to college ESL classes. Most
of them aren't going to do that immediately (often because of
transportation and child care issues, but sometimes because of fear of
school based on past experiences or just fear of the unknown), but after a
while with us, where we talk about the college, provide schedules, do an
occasional field trip, provide maps, do individual problem-solving around
transportation and child care, provide a Spanish-speaking contact at the
college for them to make the initial appointment with, etc.
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Sylvan Rainwater . sylvan@cccchs.org
Adult Education Teacher and Family Literacy Program Manager
Clackamas County Children's Commission . Oregon City, OR USA
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