Barbara Bush, right, of The Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy's Maine Family Literacy Initiative, presents an award of $25,000 to Pam Cote, of Sanford Community Adult Education's Families READ program during a special ceremony in Biddeford on June 15.

SPRINGVALE/BIDDEFORD The Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy's Maine Family Literacy Initiative (MEFLI) has awarded $25,000 to Sanford Community Adult Education's Families READ (Reach, Explore, Achieve, Dream) program.

Pam Cote, of Families READ, accepted the award from Mrs.

Five "Lighthouse Model Programs" grants of $25,000 have also been awarded to well-established, model family literacy programs that have proposed outreach activities to support the promotion and expansion of family literacy services in Maine. Applicants were selected based on their ability to demonstrate experience and success in providing family literacy programming, the creativity of their outreach activities, and the diversity of their partnerships and target audiences.

Since 1996, The Maine Family Literacy Initiative has awarded 243 grants totaling $4,341,991.

Founded by Barbara Bush in 1989, the Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy supports the development and expansion of family literacy programs in settings where parents and children read and learn together across the United States.

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