Children's Literacy Program
The Elizabeth Stone House believes that literacy is one of the strongest predictors of emotional and financial stability. For this reason, one of the main objectives of our children’s programming is to increase the literacy skills of every child who enters the Stone House. The Elizabeth Stone House Homework Club meets Monday nights, and in the summer a reading club takes its place. We use literacy curricula that were designed by Stone House staff for the younger children who do not yet have homework. Child care workers also use these curricula on Monday nights when all of the Stone House’s adult residents are in house meetings and their children are working with Parent-Child Center staff.
We build literacy into every service we provide children. Children at the Stone House compile a personal library during their stay, and non-residential families who come to us for a parenting class or a support group leave with children’s books. We have created a teen curriculum that includes journal writing. The mothers we serve play a central role in their children’s literacy development, a point we concentrate on in parenting classes and during individual advocacy. We encourage women both to take an active role in their children’s education and to invest in their own by studying for their GED or enrolling in community college.
For more information, please contact:
Tanya McLean at (617) 427-9801 ext 412 or
tmclean@elizabethstone.org