OUR FAMILY LITERACY MODEL
Grace Place provides comprehensive, family-centered education programs that support children and parents from early childhood through adulthood. By focusing on English literacy and academic success for the whole family, our programs help children stay on track in school while equipping parents with the skills and confidence to support learning at home. Together, this approach creates lasting opportunity that extends beyond the classroom and into everyday life.
BRIGHT BEGINNINGS
GRACE PLACE FAMILY LITERACY MODEL®
Bright Beginnings cultivates confident, capable, and literate parents prepared to guide their children through the crucial years of early development and successfully prepare them to transition to formal school at the level of their peers.
ACADEMY OF LEADERS
AFTER-SCHOOL PROGRAM
The Academy of Leaders afterschool program (K-12) improves student achievement in core academic subjects, develops leadership habits and provides opportunities for students to learn the 21st Century skills needed to be college and career ready.
LEAD PROGRAM
COLLEGE AND CAREER ACCESS PROGRAM
The LEAD program (Leaders Empowered to Achieve Dreams) provides high school students with targeted academic assistance, life and leadership skills, college and career readiness, and volunteer/work-based learning opportunities, so students have the necessary tools for success beyond high school.
ADULT EDUCATION
Adult Education programs furnish the knowledge and skills necessary for adult learners to succeed in the acquisition of the English language and to nurture the assimilation process to the culture of the United States.
WHERE WE WORK
Golden Gate City Snapshot
Geographic Area: roughly four-square-miles
Population: 29,552 people
Median Age: 35
Per capita income: $16,671
Population under the age of eighteen: 27%
Population speaking a language other than English in the home: 74%
Population age 25+ with less than a high school education: 37%
Elementary children identified as Limited English Proficient: 50%
School aged children determined as Economically Needy:
Golden Gate Elementary: 92%
Golden Terrace Elementary: 89%
Golden Gate Middle School: 89%
Golden Gate High School: 74%
*2010-2017 American Community Survey and Collier County Public Schools
