These programs work to provide advocacy, tutoring, health services, summer school and young adult ESL classes. Volunteers and staff workers go to both the home and the schools to work with individuals and families. Whole language activities such as Language Experience Writing and Family Journals are used.
Tutors meet with the family in the home every other week for ten weeks.
In addition, there are five group meetings where families and tutors work together at learning centers and interact with other families. Teachers are matched with a family and plan a curriculum based on the family's individual needs and interests. Some past family projects have included writing a family history and using family pictures for a slide show, a mother and her teenager studying for the driver's test together, and parents learning to use a particular reading program to help their children at home. This is a home-based program held once a week for eight weeks. Families usually request more than one session.