Even Start Family Literacy Partnerships provide intensive family literacy services that involve parents and children in a cooperative effort to help parents become full partners in the education of their children and assist children in reaching their full potential as learners. Even Start Family Literacy Partnerships help break the cycle of poverty and illiteracy by improving the education opportunities of families most in need in terms of poverty and illiteracy. The partnerships are implemented through cooperative projects that build on existing community resources to create a new range of services for low income families.