The Family Literacy Project
Bridging culture, academia and storytelling to discern and explore the world through a family lensAn Overview
The Family Literacy Project
The Family Literacy Project™ has been created to help everyone obtain a basic understanding of the family and its role in human experience. We do this through teacher training, masterful storytelling, curriculum, multi-media, and workshops, all supported by quality scholarship and research.
Founded in 2020, the Family Literacy Project™ is a program of Skyline Research Institute (SRI). The Family Literacy Project aims to help people of all ages to grow in the ability to discern and analyze the fundamental intersections of the family within social/cultural/political life (what SRI has uniquely reframed and reconceptualized as “family literacy”). The Institute works to advance and promote this new and innovative conceptual framework on the family by providing training and resources to help individuals, universities, and organizations provide the best tools to understand the complex roles that the family plays in human experience.
What is family literacy? It’s the ability to discern and analyze the fundamental intersections of the family within social/political/cultural life. In short, it’s the ability to see the world through the family lens. Critical to this definition is the importance of understanding the family and family influences in context and as inextricably woven into all dimensions of human experience.
Our work is to advance our new family literacy framework by providing training and resources to help individuals understand why the family is the fundamental unit of society and to grow in the ability to discern and analyze the fundamental intersections of the family within social, political and cultural life through the family lens.
Stable Family Life
Essential to Individual and Social Well-being
World Religions
Shared Understanding of the Importance of the Family
Family Influences
Found in all Dimensions of Culture
Stable Family Life
Essential to Individual and Social Well-Being
World Religions
Shared Understanding of the Importance of the Family
Family Influences
Found in All Dimensions of Culture
Our Mission and Vision
Founded by expert storytellers, communicators and family researchers, the Family Literacy Project™ has been created to house research, curriculum, stories, and case studies from academic experts on the family. It is our hope that the combination of these resources will help people of all ages grow in the ability to discern and analyze the fundamental intersections of the family within social, political and cultural life through the family lens.
Family influences can virtually always be found when one asks “the family question” of any given social or historical experience. Using a family lens through storytelling paves the way for multi and cross-disciplinary collaborations to explore the complex and critically important roles that the family plays in our contemporary world.
We believe that these foundations provide the best tools to understand the complex roles that the family plays in human experience, and understanding them will help diminish the negative consequences of family illiteracy.
The family and family influences are inextricably woven into all dimensions of the human experience.