Literacy Without Limits: The Community Literacy Center Model

Description

Literacy services should be accessible to all adults who want to learn to read. Community Literacy Centers (CLCs) extend access to a variety of settings – from churches, housing complexes, homeless shelters, libraries, and employer work sites, among others. CLCs provide adult learners with flexible opportunities to learn in classes, groups, one-on-one tutoring, and self-paced instruction supported by volunteer tutors. This session will share strategies on how to provide various types of instruction for adult learners of multiple levels using the CLC Model developed by the Kalamazoo Literacy Council. Attendees will learn how quality adult literacy services can be present in every neighborhood or community that needs it to help close the literacy opportunity gap.