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DEL culturally relevant parent support projects
The Department of Early Learning (DEL) in December 2007 provided $320,000 in community-based funding to 22 culturally relevant projects that support Washington parents in healthy family development.
After receiving more than 80 funding applications, DEL selected local projects that are innovative and reach out to diverse families and communities. The projects include efforts that:
- Offer parent education to rural college students to help them achieve the balance needed to juggle the complex demands of parenting, college, and work.
- Support a traveling science and math display at local community centers so parents and caregivers can bring their children to explore math and science concepts in a hands-on setting.
- Bring together Tribal Nation families for a monthly community family night that includes dinner and literacy activities.
- Support recent east African immigrants as they help their children transition into traditional American schools.
Other projects will support teen parents, grandparents raising children, public libraries offering kindergarten readiness activities to parents and caregivers, and incarcerated parents and caregivers working together to raise children.
The selected organizations and the corresponding counties are:
- Wonderland Development Center
- N. King, S. Snohomish
- Walla Walla Community College
- Walla Walla
- Kalispel Tribe of Indians
- Pend Oreille
- Child Care Action Council
- Lewis, Mason, Thurston
- La Casa Hogar -- Yakima Interfaith Coalition
- Yakima
- Blue Earth Farms
- Lewis
- Othello School District
- Adams
- Peninsula College -- Makah Tribe Higher Ed Pgm
- Clallam
- Mary Bridge Children's Foundation
- Pierce
- St. Joseph Family Center
- Spokane
- Thurston Community Network
- Thurston
- Sedro-Woolley Public Library
- Skagit
- Horn of Africa Services
- King
- Safe Homes
- Pierce
- Palouse Industries/Young Children and Family Pgms
- Whitman
- Volunteers of America Western Washington
- Snohomish
- Asotin County Health District
- Asotin
- Valley Cities Counseling and Consultation
- King
- Children's Home Society of Washington
- Clark
- Lutheran Community Services NW -- Parent Line
- Clallam and Jefferson
- The Family Support Center of South Sound
- Thurston
- COPE (Community Opportunities for Parenting Education)
- Grays Harbor