Adult Literacy Recommendations in Pennsylvania

 

The third annual Blueprint for Change report in Pennsylvania made five
recommendations designed to improve adult literacy services in the
state:

 

-- Increase awareness of literacy as an asset that helps build and
enhance community well-being; 

 

-- Formalize relationships between education and welfare systems to
ensure literacy services meet individual, family and community needs; 

 

-- Support efforts that enable more adults to take part in postsecondary
education and training; 

 

-- Strengthen workforce development networks to enable more adults to
move into jobs with self- and family-sustaining wages; and 

 

-- Increase accountability for addressing literacy needs.

 

During 2004-2005, Pennsylvania's family literacy programs served 2,912
of the state's most vulnerable families in terms of income, employment,
and parent's educations attainment levels.

 

Read more...
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/news_press_release,103221.shtml

 

 

 

Gail J. Price

Multimedia Specialist

National Center for Family Literacy

325 W. Main Street, Suite 300

Louisville, KY 40202

gprice at famlit.org

502 584-1133, ext. 112

 

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