Strengthening our community for the future means ensuring that our keiki today have the best educational opportunities to grow and thrive.  For INPEACE, this means reaching beyond ourselves and ensuring that all early learning providers have the skills, tools, and resources they need to provide the best instruction possible.  With our continual focus on strengthening community through collaborative efforts, the Early Literacy Program engages parents, family home childcare providers, Family-Child Interactive Learning programs, and center-based preschools to increase the level and quality of literacy intervention for the keiki in their care. 

The project provides culturally responsive, high-quality instruction that focuses on the whole-child, and addresses all 12 elements of a comprehensive literacy instruction plan as defined by the USDOE. The evidence-based program, Doors to Discovery (D2D), uses thematic units of literacy activities to encourage children’s development in oral language, phonological awareness, print concepts, alphabet knowledge, writing, and comprehension, and has been adapted to be delivered through a culturally appropriate lens. The focus of the curriculum is the development of children’s vocabulary and expressive and receptive language through a learning process called “shared literacy,” by which adults and children work together to develop literacy related skills.