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Valencia County Literacy Council

With Literacy and Justice for All

280 La Entrada   Los Lunas, NM 87031  (505) 925-8926  Fax (505) 925-8924

Events

Board Annual Meeting, August 20, 2009, 4-6 p.m. at MyBank in Belen.  Call Jill for more info. at 925-8926.

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Valencia County Literacy Council

280 La Entrada
Los Lunas, NM 87031
(505) 925-8926
joglesby@valencialiteracy.org

Volunteer Tutoring:
Call Susan Howard at
(505) 925-8935
showard@valencialiteracy.org

BOOK Readers:
Call Lori Griego at
(505) 865-1878
lgriego@valencialiteracy.org

 

Mission Statement

VCLC’s mission is to enable adults to achieve personal goals and very young children to achieve pre-literacy skills through literacy services provided to families free of charge.

Vision Statement

We envision a Valencia County in which all residents have the Literacy skills they need to achieve their own dreams and to enhance the quality of their lives.

Core Values

  • We serve residents of Valencia County with low literacy and/or limited English-language skills.
  • We are committed to the use of volunteers to provide instruction.
  • We value quality instruction that is centered on Learners’ Own Goals.
  • We support the Adult Learner in all his/her capacities as a Community Member, Family Member, and Worker.
  • We support Adult Learner Leadership.
  • We believe that the ability to read is critical to personal freedom and the maintenance of a democratic society. 
  • We believe that as our culture becomes more complex and dependent on technology, Literacy becomes ever more basic to survival and the achievement of one’s potential. 
  • We work to encourage and assist other organizations and individuals who are committed to a literate society.
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    Valencia County Literacy Council (VCLC) is an accredited affiliate of ProLiteracy America and the New Mexico Coalition for Literacy.

    Founded in 1987, our organization is now entering its third decade of providing help and hope to residents of Valencia County.

    In the Valencia Literacy Program, we provide FREE Volunteer Tutoring for adults in Basic Reading and English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL), a Family Literacy Preschool for adults in ESOL and GED en Espańol classes in El Cerro Mission, and volunteer BOOK Readers to read to children and free children’s books in low-income medical clinics in Valencia County.

    In all our activities, we help Valencia County families who are some of our most vulnerable residents to become more self sufficient

     

    Did You Know?

    UNESCO estimates that there are more than 774 million nonliterate adults in the world. It sees adult literacy as a basic human right and integral to the solutions for poverty, access to health care, educating children, and human rights abuses.

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    The National Adult Literacy Survey (NALS) of 1992 indicated that 20% of Valencia County adults (16 and over, not enrolled in school) would have trouble reading a simple newsletter article and picking out information. Fifty percent have literacy skills below that required by most jobs today, and 24.2% speak no or only very limited English.

     

     

     

     

    Value of Literacy Instruction

    According to one Economic Impact Analysis Project Report, for every dollar spent on Literacy, $33 is returned to the local economy (Kearney, 1999). Why?

    · Low health literacy costs between $106 billion and $238 billion each year in the U.S. — 7 to 17 percent of all annual personal health care spending.

    · Low literacy’s effects cost the U.S. $225 billion or more each year in non-productivity in the workforce, crime, and loss of tax revenue due to unemployment.

     

    See VCLC’s Latest Newsletters!

    Fall 2008

    Spring 2009


    See Executive Director Jill O’s Newspaper Columns
    for the Valencia County News Bulletin

    “What Literacy Means to Me”

    “Sharing the Blessing of Reading”

    “Where Does Literacy Start?”

    “They’re Singing for Literacy”

    “It’s a Worldwide Movement”

    “Teaching Methods Have Changed”

     

     

     

     

     

     

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