Welcome!!
This section of the ND Lifelong Learnng Resource Center website has been developed as an Even Start resource for parents, students, educators, and administrators.The purpose of this section is to provide information, support, and resources for the many different areas of Even Start.
Even Start is a federally-funded family literacy program (through Title I, Part B of the
Improving America's Schools Act) administered in North Dakota through the Department
of Public Instruction/Title I State Office. Even Start provides learning opportunities to
families with children from birth through age 7. The program integrates early childhood
education, adult literacy education, parenting education, and parent and child together
time (PACT).
The purpose of Even Start is to help break the cycle of poverty and illiteracy by
improving the educational opportunities of low-income families through the integration
of early childhood education, adult literacy, and parenting education into a unified family
literacy program. Even Start is implemented through cooperative projects that build on
existing community resources to create a new range of services.
For more information about Even Start please contact:
Dale Patrick, Program Administrator
Department of Public Instruction
600 E Boulevard Ave, Dept. 201
Bismarck, ND 58505-0440
Phone: 701/328-1644
Fax: 701/328-4770
or
Laurel Kaae
ND Lifelong Learning Resource Center
PO Box 1326
Williston, ND 58802-1326
Phone: 701/572/5886
lkaae@hotmail.com
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