Building Blocks for the Future
Programs: Literacy and Life provides a series of programs for parents and caregivers focused on the preschool age. The programs below emphasize the importance of proactive strategies in early childhood for parents and their children, to help prepare children to start school ready to learn and thrive.
1. Nutrition & Learning: A Health Literacy Program
Research shows proper nutrition is critical in helping children concentrate and perform better as they learn. This program will teach healthy eating for immediate and long-term health. Topics include: 
- Hands-on curriculum that connects produce in the garden to food on their plates
- Nutrition education aimed at preventing childhood obesity and encouraging long-term health
- Creating excitement about nutritious meals using fresh foods that make healthy eating fun
- Reinforce that a healthy diet, getting enough sleep and being physically fit are important for children’s success in school
- How to access healthy foods within the community
2. Optimizing The Early Stages: A Child Development Literacy Program
Using child development expertise, this program will increase understanding about conditions that nurture, protect and ensure the well-being and school-readiness of young children. Topics will include:
- The way an environment can enhance each unique child
- How to recognize Ages And Stages and the opportunities each brings to the developing child
- Emotional and social development and their role in a child’s success
- Approaches to learning
- Vision and hearing screening to ensure healthy learning
3. Setting the Stage to Achieve Life Goals: A Financial Literacy Program
This program equips parents and caregivers to take control of their personal finances and break the cycle of living paycheck-to-paycheck.
Topics Inlcude:
- Taking control of your personal finances, staying on track
- Key steps for creating a spending plan to boost savings
- How to get children on board with the family spending plan
- Managing resources for healthy lifestyle choices
- Planning for the family’s secure future
Success Outcomes: Literacy and Life will have impartial evaluations for effectiveness of the programs. With successful results and feedback, the programs will be adjusted as needed and expanded to parents and caregivers through early childhood institutions.