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Events
Board Annual Meeting, August 21st, 9:00 to 1:00, with Board Retreat by HELP-NM. Location TBA. Call Jill at 925-8935 for more information.
Student and Tutor Potluck, August 31st at the Student Community Center at UNM-Valencia, with Guest Speaker Marten Griego. Call Susan Howard for more info. at 925-8935.
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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
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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 (ESL), a Family Literacy Preschool for adults in ESL and GED en Espaņol 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.
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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 Assessment of Adult Literacy of 2003 indicates that 20% of Valencia County adults have “Below Basic” literacy skills, and the National Adult Literacy Survey (NALS) of 1992 indicated that 50% read below the level required by most jobs today and 24.2% speak no or only very limited English.
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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.
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If you want one year of prosperity, grow grain.
If you want ten years of prosperity, grow trees.
If you want one hundred years of prosperity, grow people.
-- Chinese Proverb
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