Why Choose Our Family Wrap-Around Services Program?

In this program, we collaborate with community partners to support families' diverse needs across social services. Through referrals, we connect families to resources for food, clothing, shelter, mental health, substance abuse, and domestic violence. Family well-being is our priority, and we aim to help every family seeking support build community and resilience.

Energy Support: Helping Families Keep The Lights On

Learning Empowered offers an energy support program to help families in crisis pay their electric bills. We have provided nearly $10,000 in electric utility support this year. Thank you Duke Energy!

Ready to Rent: Housing Stability

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Finding and renting a home is a major life accomplishment. Our Ready to Rent program helps families prepare to find and maintain housing. We offer a free 6 session rental education class where participants work closely with housing specialists and local experts to decrease incidents of homelessness and eviction. Learning Empowered had 40 students participate and 25 complete the program.

This program offers Ready to Rent classes online! Classes are free for Pinellas residents.

Read Together: Intergenerational Family Literacy Program

This program focuses on enhancing English language skills for families by integrating the learning experiences of adults and children. It offers in-person English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) classes for adults while concurrently providing engaging reading and activity groups for their children. This dual approach fosters an environment where both generations can learn and grow together.

At the conclusion of the classes, families participate in a guided reading activity, featuring new children's books that they can take home. This encourages ongoing practice and reinforces the importance of reading within the family unit.

The program is structured around several key objectives:

Improving English language proficiency across all generations within families.
Enhancing early literacy and school readiness for children aged 2 to 6 years.
Strengthening the relationships between parents and children.
Equipping families with strategies to support their children’s literacy skills at home.
Fostering connections within families and the wider community to provide additional support.
Increasing families’ understanding of how to nurture their child’s developing literacy skills effectively.

By promoting these goals, this program aims to create a meaningful impact on family literacy and community engagement.