(1) The Office of Adult Education shall provide technical assistance to providers to develop family literacy services. The technical assistance shall be evaluated on a regular basis by contracted evaluators outside the program.
(2) The services shall:
(a) Provide parents with instruction in basic academic skills, life skills which include parenting skills, and employability skills;
(b) Provide the children with developmentally appropriate educational activities;
(c) Provide planned high-quality educational experiences requiring interaction between parents and their children;
(d) Be of sufficient intensity and duration to help move families to self- sufficiency and break the cycle of under education and poverty; and (e) Be designed to reduce duplication with other educational providers to ensure high quality and efficient services.