Program Profiles
Family and Child Education (FACE) Program
The FACE program was created in 1990 by the Bureau of Indian Affairs (now the Bureau of Indian Education) within the Office of Indian Education Programs to develop an integrated model for an American Indian early childhood/parental involvement program. The program was designed to serve (1) birth to age 5 children and their parents, providing early childhood education and adult education and adult education — including academic and parenting services — in home- and center-based settings; and (2) children in grades K-3, providing opportunities for active learning.
Funding: FACE is funded through the Bureau of Indian Education (BIE).
Use of Funds: FACE grantees use funding to provide family literacy services, consistent with the federal, four-component definition of family literacy.