WQLN Families Turn on to Financial Literacy extends our educational outreach through a series of  workshops promoting financial fitness.  Parents learn how to make informed decisions from the responsible use of credit to basic principles of saving money, including other financial decisions affecting their family's future.

WQLN Families Turn on to Financial Literacy is an innovative literacy workshop series that emphasizes the involvement of the entire family in a child's education.  This four-week program brings parents and children together once a week for an interactive learning experience that includes reading, hands-on activities, and educational television programming.

These workshops:
-Actively involves parents, teachers, students, and the community.
-Promote the Learning Triangle concept: View Do Read combining television viewing (PBS Kids Programs) with books and hands-on activities.
-Incorporates the national "Ready To Learn" program and addresses "No Child Left Behind Mandates"
-Reaches out to families of varying backgrounds in an exciting way.
-Empowers families to make the changes they need to be successful.
-Forms positive relationships.
-Supports teachers with standards-based curriculum and in-class lessons.
-Involves the community.
-Makes connections between life at school, home, the workplace, and the community
-Provides an opportunity for public television to connect families to opportunities, resources, social networks, services, and education.
-Rewards families when they participate in the entire workshop series.