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To empower
adults and families by helping them acquire the literacy skills and
practices to be active and contributing members of their
communities.
The Literacy Center for the Midlands (Literacy
Center) was founded in 1970 by a retired librarian and a group of
friends who wanted to help adults improve their literacy skills.
For over 35 years the Literacy Center has provided one-on-one
instruction using volunteer tutors that are oriented and trained in
the phonics-based Laubach curriculum. This method of
instruction has proved very successful to many students and is still
used at the center today.
The
Literacy Center continues to offer free services to adults (people over the age of
18, regardless of income) reading below the 8th grade level so they
may improve their literacy skills and reach their literacy goals.
During the past year we have expanded our programming to include
small group living skills instruction so that the students can also
achieve self-sufficiency by becoming literate in many areas of their
lives. These classes are Life
Literacy classes and some of the topics
covered are reading a prescription bottle, accessing
information from a phone book, reading a recipe and writing a check.
We are currently developing our
Family Literacy program. The program offers classes that will teach parents
how to teach their children the important literacy skills so they
may be successful in their academic journey. The classes gives
the parents an opportunity to practice reading children’s books and
practice activities that will help their children to become readers.
Our family Literacy program also includes the national Reach Out and
Read program.
Take a look at the
"Programs" page for a
complete listing of all our programs.
Did you know:
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14% of
the Omaha population are functionally illiterate-they can not read
well
enough to fill out a job application, read a
food label or read to their children?
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The skill level
of a typical high school dropout qualifies for only 10% of all new
jobs?
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For
every dollar spent on a literacy program, there is a $7.14 return
from the benefits it produces?
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About 43% of
adults with very low literacy skills live in poverty?
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People
who lack basic literacy skills are much more likely to suffer from
heart disease, diabetes, and prostate cancer?
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Children of low-literate parents tend to get poor care and poor
nutrition at home and do poorly in school?
Facts provided by U.S. Census Bureau and ProLiteracy’s U.S
Adult Literacy Programs
Hours:
Monday 9-7 Tuesday 9-5
Wednesday 9-7
Thursday 9-5
Friday
9-4
Location:
We
are located at
3615 Dodge Street
on the southeast corner of 37th & Dodge. Our front
door faces west and we are on the second level.
Staff and Board
Members
Please click on the above link to view.
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