The Provincial Government funds a program called “Talk With Me program”, which involves speech pathologists partnering with community based groups to take “The Hanon” program into communities. This program focuses on early language development and involves parents and children.

Family Literacy promotion and programming are also funded through service clubs, private corporations, individuals and community foundation grants.

Who delivers family literacy in New Brunswick?

Family Literacy Programs are delivered mostly by community-based, non-profit organizations and groups. Some organizations, like Early Intervention Programs and Family Resource Centres (funded by the Provincial and Federal governments respectively), embed family literacy activities into their established programming and/or provide family literacy as part of their programming.

The New Brunswick Family Literacy Directory (first published by the Coalition in 2002 and revised in 2003) provides information on 23 organizations providing a wide variety of family literacy programming and services.

The Literacy Coalition of New Brunswick has participated in family literacy in many ways:

• planning and participating in the provincial celebrations for National Family Literacy Day through membership on the Provincial Family Literacy Day Committee/Comite provincial de la journee de l’alphabetisation
• maintaining a network of family literacy organizations and providing information and materials (for example: The Travelling Trunk; updated website resources for parents)
• publishing Side by Side, a Family Literacy document to encourage and inform parents and caregivers about reading to young children
• publishing the New Brunswick Family Literacy Directory
• providing Foundational Family Literacy Training to New Brunswick practitioners
• partnering to create Conversations with Parents, a publication with training for practitioners who work with parents and families regarding early and family literacy
• engaging in Family Literacy Research
• organizing the Family Literacy Forum 2007 and the upcoming Family Literacy Forum in 2008 that brings together stakeholders to engage in creating a strategic direction for family literacy in New Brunswick.