Program Activities

Learning Dreams has two main streams of activity. First, it provides family learning support. A community-based Neighborhood Educator provides individual, home-based mentoring to parents in a face-to-face personal relationship. The Neighborhood Educator helps parents identify their learning dreams and locate the resources to realize their dreams. Once the parents are making progress, the Neighborhood Educator helps the parents create a plan to support the learning of their children. This work changes the traditional relationship of the parents to the institutions of learning. The traditional parent/school relationship is one-way. The parent is always asked to come to the school to help support learning at the school for the students. But through Learning Dreams, the parents seek and find new relationships with the school and other institutions in the community.

The second main activity of Learning Dreams is building community capacity to support learning. The Neighborhood Educator works with institutions in the community to help them respond in new and more creative ways to family and child learning needs.