The Literacy Center

Our Community Partners

The following organizations help The Literacy Center

improve literacy education in our community.

	Coconino Community College Adult Ed
	Coconino Community College Adult Education offers classes that support or enhance literacy learning. Many classes are available to adult learners wishing to improve their skills in English, technology, and a variety of topics. Visit their site to learn more about classes, schedules, and fees.

	GoodWill of Northern Arizona
	Goodwill Industries of Northern Arizona is an industry-leading not-for-profit business that turns donations into good jobs, good homes and good neighborhoods, and they provide support for the Literacy Center programs. Learn more at their web site.

	NACOG Head Start
	Northern Arizona Council of Governments addresses the needs of enrolled children and families by using the Head Start Performance Standards and locally designed service delivery systems. The program utilizes a comprehensive approach in meeting the needs of enrolled children and provides them the opportunity to begin their school experience on equal footing with their more socially advantaged peers.

	Sunnyside/Southside Neighborhood Association
	The Sunnyside/Southside Neighborhood Association of Flagstaff provides community-based programs and services to local residents. Their programs and services include providing the neighborhood’s youth with positive opportunities and promoting literacy (including technology) of all residents. Visit their web site for more information on their programs.

	AmeriCorps
	AmeriCorps (Northern Arizona University Community Service Institute) has been a source of excellent part-time Education Assistants for the past decade. AmeriCorps members contract with us for a year at a time, usually while attending classes at NAU. Bilingual AmeriCorps members use their skills to make learners welcome, help us complete assessments and assist in day to day operations.

	AmeriCorps VISTA
	AmeriCorps VISTA (Arizona Alliance of Non-Profits) is a new source for a full time individual who will help us launch a collaboration with two other community organizations: Goodwill Industries of Northern Arizona, the Sunnyside Neighborhood Association and the Southside Neighborhood Association. Together we will examine the various needs for literacy instruction in and around the community. Our common goal is to improve volunteer-supported adult literacy throughout the community. Stimulus funding made it possible for the Arizona Alliance of Non-Profits to offer the capacity building positions in 2010.

	America Reads
	America Reads (Northern Arizona University) is a program which provides a stipend for tutors who work in local educational settings, mostly elementary schools. The Literacy Center provides training for the tutors twice a year. America Reads tutors often go on to become tutors for The Literacy Center.

	EmPACT at Killip Elementary School
	Empowering Parents and Children Together (EmPACT) is housed at Killip Elementary School. The program helps parents and caregivers attain their GED while their pre-school children attend lessons in another classroom. The Literacy Center provides family literacy training for the parents and caregivers twice a year.

	Flagstaff Unified School District
	FUSD contracts with The Literacy Center to provide English as a Second Language classes for parents of children in the district. The classes meet twice a week, year around, at the Family Resource Center.