Worksheet A

A Identifying Community Needs

The purpose of this exercise is to collect your thoughts and general impressions of the needs in your community that relate to family literacy. Before you can do that, you need to take a few moments to define your community, so as to set some parameters for your family literacy partnership. Your community might be easily defined, such as a specific town or city, or a neighborhood in a city. Or it might be a county or rural municipality. It might even be a region of the province. Where do you deliver services to? Write down a working definition of your community.

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The next step is to think about what the needs are in your community that could be addressed by a family literacy program. What led you to consider a family literacy program as a possible program? Do you have any particular client group in mind? Did information from a survey or needs assessment tell you there was a need?

First think about general needs, such as a need for greater awareness of the important role parents play in their children's literacy development. What about the importance of family reading, or the need to get parents more involved in their children's education? Jot down some general needs you're aware of in your community.

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