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Table 5: Information
Needs of Community Agencies
Relevance for agency and clients
- flexibility in terms of developing the program and working
with the literacy coordinator
- respect by the literacy coordinator for their clients
- ability of the family literacy program to blend with their
program
- awareness that their agency would be part of the discussion
on what the best way would be to deliver the program.
- knowledge that the program would be appropriate for clients
Resources available
- knowledge that someone was willing and available to
coordinate the program
- knowledge that it wouldn’t take too much time or cost
too much
- awareness that there were adults in the community who could
help kids who need individual attention
Community need
- explanation of the need for the program
- literacy statistics
Family literacy information
- to have a presentation on how the program would work
- to have information on programs operating in other
communities
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Most of the coordinators that we spoke to recommended using existing
structures to approach people, such as inter-agency or community
development meetings.
For other coordinators, initial contact was made by making "cold
calls" to the agencies and groups they had identified as
potential partners.
The process used by the coordinators we interviewed to approach
potential partners can be compiled and summarized as follows:
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