 Hi, I'm Naomi Yamamoto. I'm BC's Minister of Advanced Education and today is Family Literacy Day. Throughout the province, we fund family literacy programs in partnership with our public post-secondary institutions and community organizations, programs like this. Hi, my name is Jackie Eyre. I am the Coordinator for the Chilliwok Community Services Family Literacy Program. We're visiting today with the Central Gateway Family Literacy Program. This program runs from September to April three mornings a week and offers free childcare in a literacy-rich environment. Our family literacy students receive math and English upgrading with the UFB, University of the Fraser Valley Instructor, as well. They have life skills instruction, goal setting, time management, employment skills, and parenting instruction as well. Each year, we welcome 25 to 30 students and their children into one of our two family literacy programs. With the help of volunteers and our community partners, Chilliwok Community Services has been able to deliver family literacy programs for 20 years. Most of our programs take place in the elementary school and as a result, many of the parents have children who are already registered in those schools. For the children, this is an opportunity for them to see their parents or caregivers going back to class, going into their own programs, pursuing their own education, and working on homework assignments. For the parents, this gives them an opportunity to be involved in their child's early learning experiences. And then for the family, it's an opportunity for them to instill education as a strong family value. There's lots of support and it's nice that I don't have to worry about who's watching them when I go to school, because I didn't have a lot of support, so already my kids have went to preschool here, so I already knew the way to sit there. So having them go there and they already knew them was really nice. I'm much more confident, much more confident in all areas of my life. I feel like I have four kids, and so I have to support them. I was thinking, am I going to do that? So coming is just giving me that direction to, I'm going to get there, and I'm going to do it, and it's going to be good. Everything's going to be okay. I'm working a lot of my English for the Community Support Workers Certificate. I think it's a certificate at UFE, and hopefully not this September, but the following September I'll do that program, and then we'll be good. It has been said and stated and we believe that literacy is at the root of a person's ability to succeed, and family is at the heart.