i. List of best practice documents

In Canada

Centre for Family Literacy. Statements of Good Practice for Family Literacy Programs in Alberta. Edmonton, AB: Centre for Family Literacy, 1997. To download this document visit: www.famlit.ca/resources/goodpractice.html

Bowden, Michelle. Family Literacy Best practices Guide for Programs in Nova Scotia. Truro, NS: Colchester East Hants Regional Library, 2003. To read or download this document visit: http://www.nald.ca/clr/best/cover.htm

Good Practice Task Force. Best Program Practices. Saskatoon, SK: Saskatchewan Literacy Network, 2000. To read this document or to order a copy visit: http://www.sk.literacy.ca/resource/pubs/selfeval/bestprog.PDF

Purton, Debbie et. al. Family Literacy Standards. Saskatoon, SK: Saskatchewan Literacy Network, 2000. To order a copy contact: http://www.sk.literacy.ca/resource/pubs.htm

Rasmussen, Jean, et. al. The BC Framework of Statements and Standards of Best practices in Family Literacy. Vancouver, BC: Literacy BC, 1999. To download this document visit: http://www.nald.ca/fulltext/framwork/cover.htm

In the U.S.A.

Association for Community Based Education. Effective Practices in Community Based Family Literacy: Results of a National Research and Evaluation Project. Washington, DC: National Institute for Literacy, 1993. To download this document visit: http://www.eric.ed.gov/. Go to Advanced Search and enter the ERIC number: ED372295

DeBruin-Parecki, Andrea, Scott G. Paris, Jennifer L. Seidenberg. Characteristics of Effective Family Literacy Programs in Michigan. Philadelphia, PA: National Center on Adult Literacy, 1996. To download this document visit: http://www.eric.ed.gov/. Go to Advanced Search and enter the ERIC number: ED412372

Institute for the Study of Adult Literacy, College of Education, The Pennsylvania State University. Pennsylvania’s Family Literacy Indicators of Program Quality. Harrisburg, PA: Bureau of Adult Basic and Literacy Education, 2002. To download this document visit: http://www.eric.ed.gov/. Go to Advanced Search and enter the ERIC number: ED472751

Literacy Investment for Tomorrow (LIFT). Missouri Family Literacy Indicators of Program Quality and Standards of Performance. St. Louis, MO: LIFT-Missouri, 2004. To read and order this document visit:
http://lift-missouri.org

RMC Research Corporation. 2001, June. Guide to Quality: Even Start Family Literacy Program, Volume I (revised). [Manuscript submitted for publication] June 2001. To order a copy of this guide, or download a draft version visit: http://www.evenstart.org/guide_to_quality.shtml

In the United Kingdom

The Basic Skills Agency. Developing Effective Practice Initiative. London, UK: the Basic Skills Agency, 2003. For more information visit: www.basic-skills.co.uk/site/page.php?p=1145&product=448&cms=1