What motivates low-income families to attend a community-based educational program?
The research revealed that low-income parents and family caregivers attend parenting programs because they are interested in promoting their children’s learning and educational enrichment. What parents found most enticing about Family Storyteller was including the child as an active component of the program; they believed that the intended audience of the program was the child instead of the adult. Family Storyteller was designed to teach parents effective early literacy strategies for their children. Therefore, once a parent participated in the program and learned how to effectively implement the reading strategies, the parent could apply the strategies with all children and not just the one that attended Family Storyteller. However, the research contradicts this notion. The research shows that parents wanted to attend Family Storyteller again with other children, so these children could also benefit. This finding highlights the importance of incorporating a child component into paren
