Family Literacy

Cultivate

Helps youth navigate social and economic challenges while fostering emotional stability, resilience, and educational growth. Grounded in the Healthy Outcomes from Positive Experiences (HOPE) framework, the program prioritizes supportive relationships, belonging, and healing-centered engagement. Youth are paired with mentors who provide affirmations, goal-setting support, and consistent encouragement, and they participate in after-school tutoring, summer enrichment, service learning, and healthy community activities that promote positive decision-making and mental well-being. LASOS also equips families with tools to navigate school systems and overcome language and cultural barriers, strengthening advocacy and family involvement. Creating shared family experiences strengthens bonds, builds trust, and supports healthy development; however, admission costs often prevent low-income families from participating.

Building Blocks

Since 2010, LASOS (Linking All So Others Succeed) has been providing family literacy classes to support non-English-speaking parents and their children, ensuring that their children are healthy and entering school ready to learn.

The Parent-Child “Building Blocks” Education Program is a three month span of weekly classes for parents and their children ages six months to five years. The general topic areas include:

1. Overview of Parenting
2. Physical Needs of the Young Child
3. Childhood Illnesses
4. Understanding Children’s Behavior
5. Cognitive and Language Development
6. Emotional Needs of Children
7. Social Needs of Children
8. Self-Awareness and Goal Setting
9. Nutrition and the Young Child
10. Prenatal and Infant Needs

All sessions are set in the context of story time and hands-on play.

The sessions are modeled for the parents so that at home they can be the child’s first teacher.

Classes are held in Bel Air