Even Start Bayou Consortium

Entering our 17th year, the Even Start Westbank Family Literacy Center continues to help strengthen the families of Southeast Louisiana through an integrated and comprehensive family literacy environment.

Even Start Family Literacy services are those services provided to participants that are of sufficient intensity (in terms of hours and duration) to make sustainable changes in a family. The following four components are integrated within a site-based as well as home-based setting:

• Adult Education Instruction/English language acquisition;
• On-site Early Childhood Education;
• Parenting Education; and
• Parent and Child Interactive Literacy Activities (ILA/PACT)

The Even Start Bayou Consortium is a comprehensive, four-component family literacy program, which services families with children between six weeks and seven years of age, whose parent/parents are in need of academic upgrade such as obtaining their General Education Development (GED) Diploma, obtaining English language skills, gaining employability skills, obtaining post-secondary educational skills, etc.

Home-based instructional visits are completed at least once a month to all participating families.