Detroit Literacy Coalition Program News

We are very excited to announce that Detroit Literacy Coalition has been selected as a Reading Works’ 2012 adult literacy partner.

Reading Works is a new nonprofit in Detroit dedicated to raising the level of adult literacy in our community. On Sunday, October 2nd a mass media campaign will begin with a special section in Sunday’s Detroit Free Press and on WXYZ channel 7 to shine a spotlight on the work of 9 established literacy agencies in the Metro Detroit area.

With the support that Reading Works will bring, we hope to expand our resources and hours in order to reach more adult learners in need. Reading Works will open the door to new opportunities for our agency, our institutional partners  and our learners.

Please buy a copy of the Detroit Free Press and turn on Chuck Stokes “Spotlight on the News” at 9:30 a.m. Sunday October 2nd to hear more about this exciting initiative. Listen for continuing coverage about Reading Works on TV and radio throughout the week and coming year.

2010/2011 Adult Education Great Cities Summit Project

The DLC was an applicant to the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Vocational and Adult Education and the National Institute for Literacy Adult Education Great Cities Summit program.

The Office of Vocational and Adult Education and the National Institute for Literacy have contracted with the Barrera Associates, Inc., to conduct this twenty-four month initiative. Key education stakeholders from five large cities selected to participate in the summit will discuss best practices for providing adult education in large urban areas during several summit meetings. Participants will assess their cities' needs, create action plans to address them, learn about available federal resources to support implementation of these plans, form supportive partnerships and establish a network for collaborative peer learning. A major goal of the initiative is to help participants help teachers expand their knowledge of adult reading acquisition and strengthen their teaching skills. This application is for cities interested in participating in the national initiative.

As part of the initiative, there will be five national meetings (three face to face and two virtual) and five Webinars that precede each Summit.

The Summit and Webinar dates are:

Webinar 1: February 12, 2010
Summit 1 (face-to-face): week of March 15-19, 2010

Webinar 2: May 21, 2010
Summit 2 (virtual): week of June 21-25, 2010

Webinar 3: September 24, 2010
Summit 3 (face-to-face) week of October 18-22, 2010

Webinar 4: January 31, 2011
Summit 4 (virtual) week of February 28-March 4, 2011

Webinar 5: May 20, 2011
Summit 5 (face-to-face) week of June 27-July 1, 2011

In addition, technical support will be provided in your city between meetings by Literacy Powerline and other selected experts who align with your city's most pressing adult education issues. Literacy Powerline links stakeholders, neighborhoods and services together across funding streams and program types to increase literacy levels through coordinated, high-accountability service provision. Since 2000, Literacy Powerline has provided a wide range of consulting services to communities, urban and regional literacy coalitions and services providers across the lifespan.

2011-2012 WIA State-funded grant award for the Detroit Literacy Coalition

The DLC is a recipient of the WIA grant for 2011. It currently offers basic literacy skills to adults in several institutionalized programs around the metro Detroit area with funds from the Adult Education and Family Literacy Funds from Title II of the Federal Workforce Investment Act of 1998 in the Michigan Department of labor and Economic Growth. This grant is to conduct adult education programs of instruction for the program Year (PY) of July 1, 2011 through June 30, 2012.

This grant application process reflects a new and different approach in planning and managing local adult education and family literacy programs in Michigan. This approach is designed to meet the tremendous need in our state with an innovative and unified state strategy for adult learning.

DLC's DREAM SUITE

DLC's DREAM SUITE is designed to strengthen basic literacy skills, promote computer literacy and self empowerment opportunities. Learners are engaged in this highly inspiring writing program while learning MS Word and Powerpoint. This interactive program begins with learners exploring and highlighting their childhood dream of "what I want to be when I grow up!" The goal is for each learner to create a dream book based on this theme and present it at the end of session. The idea is phenomenal because it gives learners an opportunity to tap into their hidden and/or dormant creativity to enhance learning, self esteem and personal motivation.

Past successes include instant poetry writers and entrepreneurs. One of the learners now makes and markets handmade purses for sale.

SEEKING INTERNS

Several Wayne State University students serve as interns in the DLC literacy outreach and learn first hand how to motivate and teach computer, reading and writing skills.

The DLC welcomes students seeking internship opportunities in service learning, adult education and community service administration from neighboring community colleges and universities.
Write to us at: detroitliteracycoalition@gmail.com

ADULT LEARNERS

If you seek reading and math skill, GED and computer skill training and enhancement, please write to us at: detroitliteracycoalition@gmail.com

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