Stevens and Harris discuss family engagement and literacy components
Stevens asks about parenting workshops and literacy components for parents. Threcia Harris describes partnerships with NYCHA for community baby showers, library card drives, book distributions, and author events. Asherall adds co-locators provide family engagement programming.
Our providers, family, adult and family engagement is a core piece of the community centers.
And so our programs provide, you know, workshops for families.
They do kind of like mommy and me workshops sometimes.
They've done...
I don't want to call it a sip and paint, but like, you know.
I know you give out apple cider, right?
Yeah, apple cider.
Apple cider, thank you so much.
And painting.
So we've seen some of that.
We've also offered to some of our programs opportunities for them to receive additional resources, like a co-locator to come in and do a family engagement component.
And I'm going to pass it on over to my colleague, Ms.
Harris, who can share some more insight.
Well, also we partner with, in the cornerstones at least, NITRA-REES family engagement programs to bring the community baby showers, to bring some of the morning services, although we open in the afternoon.
You may see a few where needed parenting workshops in the mornings.
And beacons on Saturdays also engage families in that way.
Is there any component of it where there's a literacy aspect to it, where parents are encouraged to read with their children?
I'm not going to say it's a requirement, but we've seen it.
The reading programs, libraries will come in.
There is that partnership with New York Public Library to get your library card or to do some of the bringing in characters and doing that kind of family engagement.
And also the book.
Oh, yeah.
With NYCHA, we have also done a BRE book.
Rich environments and there's thousands of books given across the NITRA development.
We also partner with
cornerstones and compass programs to make sure young people have that.
There's an author event where the author is literally signing books and young people are coming in with their parents or without, and they leave with books.
So literacy has been infused in different ways through different partners.
Okay.
Is there a chair?
Knock myself out?
Okay, thank you.