A r c h i v e d I n f o r m a t i o n

National Evaluation of The Even Start Family Literacy Program, 1998

Chapter 4: What Resources Support the Even Start Services?

Although Even Start imposes few legal requirements concerning program operations, projects are expected to implement numerous service delivery approaches, including: staff development; integration across three educational components; interagency collaboration; provision of support services; some home-based services for each family; and parent and child time together.⁵² Following a description of the community context for Even Start projects, this chapter presents the resources and activities that support Even Start educational services, including:

Administrative and organizational contexts;

Sources of funding;

Staff resources and qualifications;

Inservice training; and

Interagency collaboration.

Footnotes:

⁵² The second national evaluation collected project-related data on two levels. Some data described each individual project as a unit. However, some projects implemented two or more different types of approaches (e.g., programs for teen parents attending high school and different programs for older parents provided in collaboration with a community college and a Head Start program). In the context of the second evaluation, the term "site" referred to service-delivery designs rather than to a physical or geographical location. Projects reported separate information on multiple sites/designs if they used more than one service-delivery approach.

Among the 605 projects that submitted data for 1996-97, 92 percent had one site/design; 5 percent had two sites/designs; and 3 percent had three to six sites/designs. The total number of project sites reported in 1996-97 was 655. Results of analyses based on project sites are noted as such in the exhibits and in the text

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