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NCFL’s mission is to create a literate nation by leveraging the power of the family.
Family literacy is an intergenerational approach based on the indisputable evidence that low literacy is an unfortunate and debilitating family tradition. Parents who are not literate tend to have children who struggle academically and who often do not achieve literacy proficiency in adulthood.
Family literacy helps parents and children form a learning partnership that ends the cycle of poverty and low literacy. NCFL works to find solutions to the literacy crisis that build on the family to create a new cycle of ongoing learning and mutual support.
Description of NCFL’s Work
National and international experts look to NCFL as the leading resource in family learning and literacy. Literacy programs, policy makers and philanthropists rely on NCFL’s leadership, advocacy and professional services to address the educational challenges facing the nation.
NCFL’s goals are to:
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Create understanding about low literacy and about how family is the transformative structure to improve literacy for adults and children;
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Develop, evaluate, and replicate programs and interventions poised to break the cycle of low literacy for families with the greatest barriers to success;
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Create innovative solutions to learning English and achieving literacy proficiency for the nation’s immigrant population;
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Support the teachers, practitioners, and community providers who deliver literacy services by developing and supplying tools to make their work more effective;
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Provide families with tools and information necessary to build literacy into their home and daily life; and
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Assist communities and service organizations in designing and developing strategic programs to provide literacy services at the local level to large numbers of families. | 
