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Colorado Literacy Programs
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Learning Source
2002/03 Neighborhood Learning Centers
- For 38 years, The Learning Source has been providing adult basic education (ABE), GED Diploma preparation and English language acquisition classes for adults in metro Denver’s communities. We continue to provide these classes with the assistance of 100 volunteers each year.
All
Saints English Language Center
Calvary Baptist Church English Language Center
Colorado Women’s Employment & Education ABE/GED Center
First Avenue Presbyterian Church English Language Center
Belmar ABE/GED Center
Contracts and Workforce Development Sites
- The Learning Source partners with both agencies and Colorado businesses to educate potential and existing workforces.
Colorado
Women’s Employment & Education
Denver County Jail
Lowry Redevelopment Authority
2001/02 Student Profile
- Enrollment: 1413
(870 ESL – incl. 223 family literacy parents-- and 543 ABE/GED)
- Ages: 16-20 (11%),
21-34 (60%), 35-44 (21%), 45+ (8%)
- Gender: 60% women
and 40% men
- Ethnicity: 61%
Hispanic, 13% Black, 14% White, 10% Asian, 2% Native American
- Last Grade Completed:
55% entered the program having completed between the 5th and 10th grade
- 36% of our students
are unemployed. Another 24% indicate they are not in the workforce.
Employed adults comprise 25% of our students
- 15% of our students
are on public assistance.
- 52% of our students
enrolled at the pre-literacy and beginning levels
- 45% of our students had completed their educational level by June, 2002. Additionally, 13% moved to a higher level to further their studies.
The
Learning Source for Adults and Families
2002/03 Family Literacy Programs
Since
1989, The Learning Source has been in the forefront of the development
of family literacy programs in metro Denver that have been recognized
by the Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy and the National
Center for Family Literacy in Louisville, Kentucky.
- In partnership with the Aurora Public Schools Title I Department, we are in year 2 of the Toyota Families in Schools national project to bring family literacy into schools with high populations of non-native English-speaking/low literate families. Parents come to school with their children, learn to speak English and help their children become successful at these three Aurora schools:
Fulton
Elementary School
Jamaica Elementary School
Laredo Elementary School
- Through Colorado Reading Excellence Act funding a fourth site in Aurora operates at Montview Elementary School.
- A fifth site in Lakewood, the Belmar Family Learning Center, works with parents who come to school with their infants, toddlers and pre-schoolers. Partnerships are in place with neighborhood elementary schools for the operation of this center.
2001/02 Family Profile
- 223 families enrolled
in the program
- Ethnicity: 96%
Hispanic, 4% Other
- 97% speak Spanish
in the home
- Average age of
adults: 31
- Gender: 2% men,
98% women
- Marital Status:
86% married, 5% never married, 1% widowed, 0% divorced, 5% separated,
3% other
- Highest grade completed
in school: Average 8.6, Range 0 – 13.0
- During the course of the schoolyear parents reported significant increases in their participation in school activities. By the last month of school parents demonstrated a 40% increase in classroom observation; 21% increase in participation in after school events.
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The
Learning Source for Adults and Families
455 South Pierce St.
Lakewood, Colorado 80226
Phone: 303.922.4683 ~ FAX: 303.742.9929
Email: info@coloradoliteracy.org