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Massachusetts Family Literacy Consortium - Massachusetts Department of Education
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Family & Community  Adult Education Family Literacy
MFLC Community Profiles
Our vision is successful families. Our mission is successful partnerships.
COMMUNITY ASSETS DATA SOURCES FOR FAMILIES| Community Connections |  | |
Agency:
Last Revised: | Department of Social Services
Fiscal Year 2006 | | This initiative is funded by the federal Family Preservation and Support Services Program, which promotes systemic reforms needed for expanding community-based family support to prevent child maltreatment. The purpose of Community Connections is to coordinate community resources so that families have access to a seamless system of community support when and where needed. The type of support available, in the 18 targeted communities, varies but may include: family cooperatives and resource centers; parent leadership development and adult education; prenatal and newborn home visiting; parenting and family life education; primary health care and developmental screening; early childhood programs, early intervention, and child care; school-based support, mentoring, and youth programs; neighborhood organizing and community building activities; drug, crime, and domestic violence prevention programs; and family-based child protection services. | Contact:
Phone: | Brian Cummings
(617) 748-2400 |
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| Community Health Network Areas | | |
Agency:
Last Revised: | Department of Public Health
Fiscal Year 1999 | | A Community Health Network is a local coalition of public, non-profit, and private sectors working together to build healthier communities in Massachusetts through community-based prevention planning and health promotion. The Massachusetts Department of Public Health established the Community Health Network Area (CHNA) effort in 1992. Today this initiative involves all 351 towns and cities through 27 Community Health Networks. | Contact:
Phone: | Cathy O'Connor
(617) 624-6000 |
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| Community Partnerships for Children | | |
Agency:
Last Revised: | Department of Education
Fiscal Year 2002 | | The program provides comprehensive, high-quality programs for preschool-aged children and their families with the planning and oversight of a Community Partnerships for Children Council. Working together, agencies and families in a community or group of communities build a network of programs and services that increases the availability, affordability, comprehensiveness, and quality of programs that are responsive to the needs of working parents and that enhance children's learning and healthy development. | Contact:
Phone: | Alice Barton
(781) 338-3000 |
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| Comprehensive Family Literacy | | |
Agency:
Last Revised: | Department of Education
Fiscal Year 2006 | | A comprehensive family literacy program includes: parents and children learning together, adult education, childhood education, parenting skills, and often home visits. The purpose of these family centered programs is to improve the educational opportunities of families by integrating early childhood education, adult education and parenting activities into a comprehensive family literacy project that builds on existing community resources. They provide family centered education to at risk families by supporting parents as their child¿s first teacher and becoming partners in their children's education. | Contact:
Phone: | Arlene R. Dale
(781) 338-3000 |
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| Early Intervention | | |
Agency:
Last Revised: | Department of Public Health
Fiscal Year 2006 | | Early Intervention programs not only provide direct care for children age birth to three, but also work closely with parents to help them recognize and understand their child's particular developmental needs, and teach them ways to help their child grow. All children referred to Early Intervention receive a comprehensive developmental evaluation to determine eligibility and to determine the child's strengths and needs. Depending on the child's needs, other Early Intervention services can include: home visits, parent support groups, toddler groups, parent-child groups, referral services, parent training and education, group and individual sessions. The actual number served by Early Intervention is larger than the statewide total in this database. This database does not include suppressed data or data for children not connected to a specific community. | Contact:
Phone: | Ron Benham
(617) 624-6000 |
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| Family Day Care | | |
Agency:
Last Revised: | Office of Child Care Services
Fiscal Year 1998 | | For some working families, the money they earn may not cover the family¿s basic needs and the cost of child care. For other working families, like those transitioning off public assistance, child care is a necessary part of achieving self-sufficiency. OCCS has several subsidy programs for eligible families to help them pay for child care- contracted child care spaces and vouchers. Through contracts, OCCS has purchased high quality child care services for children at child care centers and homes throughout Massachusetts. OCCS also purchases slots through vouchers that parents may use at a qualifying child care center or home. Data from OCCS may differ slightly from actual slots because funding occasionally overlaps city/town boundaries since provider contracts are sometimes not specific to the program. | Contact:
Phone: | Rod Southwick
(617) 626-2000 |
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| Group Day Care | | |
Agency:
Last Revised: | Office of Child Care Services
Fiscal Year 1998 | | For some working families, the money they earn may not cover the family¿s basic needs and the cost of child care. For other working families, like those transitioning off public assistance, child care is a necessary part of achieving self-sufficiency. OCCS has several subsidy programs for eligible families to help them pay for child care- contracted child care spaces and vouchers. Through contracts, OCCS has purchased high quality child care services for children at child care centers and homes throughout Massachusetts. OCCS also purchases slots through vouchers that parents may use at a qualifying child care center or home. Data from OCCS may differ slightly from actual slots because funding occasionally overlaps city/town boundaries since provider contracts are sometimes not specific to the program. | Contact:
Phone: | Rod Southwick
(617) 626-2000 |
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| Head Start | | |
Agency:
Last Revised: | Administration for Children and Families
Fiscal Year 1998 | | Federally funded Head Start and Early Head Start programs deliver comprehensive and high quality services designed to foster healthy development in low-income children. Head Start serves three and four year olds, and Early Head Start serves infants and toddlers age birth to three and pregnant women. Grantees and delegate agencies provide a range of individualized services in the areas of education and early childhood development; medical, dental, and mental health; nutrition; and parent involvement. | Contact:
Phone: | Louise Eldridge
(617) 565-1150 |
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| MA Family Centers | | |
Agency:
Last Revised: | Children's Trust Fund
Fiscal Year 2002 | | The Massachusetts Family Centers are community-based, providing comprehensive family support programs developed to promote individual and family strengths, build parenting skills, and provide community supports to families. They connect families with each other as well as to other community resources. Family Centers provide a number of services and programs including: parenting education workshops and courses; support groups; playgroups; parent-child activities; special family events; information and referral services; resource lending libraries; family consultation; early developmental screening; community outreach; family literacy activities; and adult education. | Contact:
Phone: | Karole Rose
(617) 727-8957 |
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| MA Family Network | | |
Agency:
Last Revised: | Department of Early Education and Care
Fiscal Year 2006 | | The goal of this program is to create collaborative, comprehensive, high quality networks of family services that are culturally sensitive, welcoming and accessible to all families with young children, prenatal through age three. MFN projects emphasize prevention, build upon the strengths of families and existing resources of a community, provide leadership opportunities for families, and provide opportunities to build community and inter-family relationships. | Contact:
Phone: | Claire Brady
(781) 338-6364 |
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| Parent-Child Home Program | | |
Agency:
Last Revised: | Department of Early Education and Care
Fiscal Year 2006 | | Parent-Child Home Program (PCHP) is a home-based parenting, early literacy, and school readiness program designed to help strengthen verbal interaction and educational play between parents and their young children. PCHP supports and strengthens parents' skills in enhancing their children's cognitive development and school readiness. Program sites serve families challenged by poverty, low levels of education, language barriers, homelessness, and other obstacles to educational success. Home visitors visit each family twice weekly for two school calendar years, starting when a child is between 18 to 30 months and ending when the child enters the pre-kindergarten year. The Home Visitor models reading and activities using carefully chosen toys and books. Some program sites also serve child care providers. | Contact:
Phone: | Emily Caille
(781) 338-6364 |
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| Parenting Education | | |
Agency:
Last Revised: | Children's Trust Fund
Fiscal Year 2006 | | Parenting education and support programs help parents learn how to develop stronger parenting skills, learn appropriate behavior management techniques, reduce family stress, understand age-appropriate child development, develop peer supports to break the isolation that many families experience today, use community resources, and encourage family literacy. | Contact:
Phone: | Tanji Donald
(617) 727-8957 |
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| School Aged Child Care | | |
Agency:
Last Revised: | Office of Child Care Services
Fiscal Year 1998 | | For some working families, the money they earn may not cover the family¿s basic needs and the cost of child care. For other working families, like those transitioning off public assistance, child care is a necessary part of achieving self-sufficiency. OCCS has several subsidy programs for eligible families to help them pay for child care- contracted child care spaces and vouchers. Through contracts, OCCS has purchased high quality child care services for children at child care centers and homes throughout Massachusetts. OCCS also purchases slots through vouchers that parents may use at a qualifying child care center or home. Data from OCCS may differ slightly from actual slots because funding occasionally overlaps city/town boundaries since provider contracts are sometimes not specific to the program. | Contact:
Phone: | Rod Southwick
(617) 626-2000 |
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| Title I | | |
Agency:
Last Revised: | Department of Education
Fiscal Year 2006 | | This federally funded program provides assistance to local school districts to assist students in high poverty areas to meet the state¿s student performance standards. Priorities include providing programs that enable participating students to achieve the learning standards of the state curriculum frameworks and developing programs, activities, and procedures for the involvement of parents of participating public and private school students. Parental input into the planning, implementation, and review of the district¿s Title I program is required. | Contact:
Phone: | Melissa Williams
(781) 338-3000 |
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COMMUNITY ASSETS DATA SOURCES FOR TEENS AND YOUNG ADULTS| Teen Pregnancy Prevention | | |
Agency:
Last Revised: | Department of Public Health
Fiscal Year 2006 | | Since the initial funding of eight communities in FY87, the mission of the Teen Challenge Fund has been to unite youth, families, and community leaders in the development of local prevention strategies that promote healthy behaviors, responsible decision-making, and increased economic, social, and education opportunities for young people 10-19 years of age. Through comprehensive community coalitions, funds are distributed to local community agencies, faith-based organizations, public housing developments, schools, youth groups, and health centers. Programs include, but are not limited to life skills development, parent education, mentoring, youth leadership, community service projects, health and sexuality education. Coalitions are funded in communities with historically high rates of adolescent pregnancy and other related health, education, and socio-economic indicators. | Contact:
Phone: | Sophie Godley
(617) 624-6000 |
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| Young Parents Program | | |
Agency:
Last Revised: | Department of Transitional Assistance
Fiscal Year 2006 | | The Young Parents Program (YPP) is designed to serve pregnant and/or parenting TAFDC recipients between the ages of 14 and 22 who have not achieved a high school diploma or its equivalent. The program has two primary goals: 1) enabling young recipients to achieve a high school diploma or GED and 2) helping young parents to take the next step toward employment, through further education and training. | Contact:
Phone: | Roger Neild
(617) 348-5930 |
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COMMUNITY ASSETS DATA SOURCES FOR ADULTS| Adult Basic Education | | |
Agency:
Last Revised: | Department of Education
Fiscal Year 2006 | | This program provides free access to adults, age 16 and older, to a continuum of Adult Basic Education (ABE) instructional and support services through Community Adult Learning Centers and correctional facilities. Programs must offer adult students access to instructional services from basic literacy or beginning English language proficiency through high school level skills. The Department of Education also funds programs to assist ABE students in the transition to college,
as well as, providing instruction at the workplace and offering opportunities to learn outside the classroom including distance learning and instruction by volunteers. | Contact:
Phone: | Anne Serino
(781) 338-3000 |
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| Adult Literacy Volunteers | | |
Agency:
Last Revised: | Department of Education
Fiscal Year 1999 | | The Adult Literacy Volunteer tutoring services program funds support projects delivering adult basic education services. Most volunteers provide instruction that supplements adult basic education and literacy study in regular programs. Others provide services to learners for whom participation in classroom-based adult basic education services is impossible or unsuitable. | Contact:
Phone: | Anne Serino
(781) 338-3000 |
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