A Future Design for Equitable Communities
It is ambitious. Crucial. Future-facing but built on decades of best practices. And it leverages the power of the family and education—the foundation for success and the launchpad for dreams.
The National Center for Families Learning (NCFL) has an ambitious vision for the next decade that builds upon the organization’s legacy work and charts a new course. Moving beyond isolated programmatic endeavors, NCFL’s vision will drive work designed to support the establishment of coordinated and aligned family learning systems in communities.

NCFL 60x30 Vision: By 2030, coordinated and aligned family learning systems are established in 60 communities, built with and for families, to increase education and economic outcomes, thereby creating more equitable communities.
To learn more about the family learning systems approach to advancing equity in communities, read NCFL’s new resource.

Family Literacy

Family literacy is a continuum of programs that addresses the multigenerational nature of literacy. These programs integrate (1) interactive literacy activities between parent and child; (2) training in parenting activities; (3) parent or family adult education; and (4) age-appropriate education to prepare children for success in school and life experiences.
Family Engagement
Strong family engagement efforts are designed in partnership with schools, districts, and community-based organizations, and are aimed at building dual capacity of families and educators. At NCFL family engagement programming includes learning opportunities, events, activities, and strategies that are focused on developing oral language and literacy skills, achieving developmental milestones, and supporting child learning outcomes (P-12).
Family Leadership

Family leadership programs at NCFL are strategies and services that improve and enhance the leadership skills of parenting adults and are designed to support families in becoming better engaged advocates for themselves, their children, their families, and communities by making powerful, impactful changes on education issues alongside the systems that serve them.
Apply for a mini-grant to join the Family Learning Community Network
NCFL invites communities to join the 60x30 campaign for advancing family learning systems to support equitable communities for generations to come. Readers ready to embark on this work with NCFL can apply for a mini-grant to support costs associated with co-designing an innovative approach to building aligned and coordinated family learning systems in your community.
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