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Tulelake
Tulelake/Newell Family Resource Center
PO Box 790 (298 "C" Street)
Tulelake, CA 96134
530-667-2147
cnaylor@tulesd.tulelake.k12.ca.us
Carol Naylor - Director
T.E.A.C.H., Inc. received non-profit status in 1979. T.E.A.C.H., Inc. provides fiscal oversight and is the
umbrella agency for numerous programs within Siskiyou and Modoc counties. The Tulelake/Newell Family
Resource Center (T/N FRC), a division of T.E.A.C.H., Inc., began providing services in Tulelake and the
surrounding area in April 1997. Since it’s inception we have provided a variety of health, educational and
basic support services to children, youth and adult residents living in Tulelake. Our literacy based programs
Even Start / Migrant Even Start, have been our primary programs for several years, but our Even Start
program will be ending in June 2006. Currently we are in transition, as the T/N FRC is relocating to the
“Honker” (Tulelake’s youth and community center). While there will be staff and position changes, the
T/N FRC will still include the positions of director, site manager, family educator, and other program staff.
The exact number of staff is not known at this time, but scheduling will ensure that our facility is open daily
from 8-5 and through the lunch hour. Family Center staff are extensively trained and highly qualified with
most staff being totally English/Spanish bilingual. The T/N FRC is open year around Monday-Friday 8-5pm
as well as lunchtime. When the center is closed, detailed voice messages are left to help direct those in
crisis situations receive the assistance they may need. T.E.A.C.H. receives guidance from a board of
directors consisting of seven members. The T/N FRC advisory committee and our local MHSA taskforce
committee are one in the same. It is likely that there will be additions to the existing advisory committee when
we begin operating from our new location at the “Honker”. The T/N FRC staff is very proficient at data
collection protocols and has been very successful at implementing a variety of diverse grants over the
past eight years.
Current Project Objectives (07-08) - Funded by First 5 Siskiyou for $40,000
- Faily Fun Night: Monthly event with activities such as crafts, board games, field trips and guest speakers.
- Parenting classes in English and Spanish, Spanish language class, cooking class, English language class./li>
- Community Wide Parenting Conferences: Two planned for this year - English and Spanish/li>
- Provide high quality childcare to every parent with a child five
years old or younger attending a parenting class
- Provide home-based literacy activities via the Mailbox Buddies
program to three- four- and five-year-olds and their families
- Community Wide Playgroups: Available to all parents of children 4-11 years old.
- Extensive lending library with a variety of books for all ages; videos, etc./li>
- Enhanced resource and referral services to all area families
- Enhanced services (phone/fax/copy machine, etc.) to families meeting the
National Free Lunch program income guidelines
- Programs to provide educational opportunities as well as support
to families to obtain necessary life skills in order to obtain information
and access quality services as needed.
- Translation and advocacy services are provided for parent meetings
as well as conferences
- Provide car seat and Helmet safety classes. Free car seats and helmets.
- Healthy Families application site
- Parenting Kit distribution
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