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Literacy Programs In Surry
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Adult and Family Literacy
Buffalo Creek Literacy Project
Surry County
Mary Lee, Executive Director
1037 Covington House Road
Walnut Cove, NC 27052
336-591-3620
Type of organization: Independent Non-profit
What organization does: Mission: to eradicate illiteracy in Stokes and Surry County through one-to-one and group sessions. Trained, volunteer tutors offer free instructions in reading, writing, and comprehension to learners who are at least 16 years old. Tutors attend a free 12 hour training course and after completion are paired with a student and work on a one-on-one basis using the Buffalo Creek Literacy Program materials. Group sessions have recently been added and a family literacy component is expected to be in place in
Program Description(s)
Adult Literacy Programs
Yes
Surry Community College
Surry County
Dr. G. Frank Sells, President
Virginia Stammetti, Program Director
630 South Main Street Dobson, NC 27017
336-386-3243
www.surry.edu/
Type of organization: Community College
What organization does: The program offers Adult Basic Education to help students build basic skills in reading, communication, writing and math. Instruction is individualized and self-paced. GED classes are offered to review the basic principles of reading, writing and math to help students prepare for the GED, high school equivalency test and students are strongly encouraged to pursue a higher education degree. ESL if offered in classrooms for speakers of other languages. Compensatory Education is offered in classrooms for deve
Program Description(s)
GED for Higher Education
Yes
English as a Second Language Programs
Yes
Adult Literacy Programs
Yes
The Parent Connection of the Mt. Airy City Schools eLink Youth Program
Surry County
PO Drawer 710 Mount Airy, NC 27030
Polly Long, Organization Coordinator and Literacy Program Manager
336-786-9763
Type of organization: School System
What organization does: The Mount Airy City SchoolÂ’s eLink youth program is a WIA-funded program that works with youth ages 14 to 21 on education, work readiness, and job training skills to help them gain unsubsidized employment.The Surry County eLink youth program recognizes that the high risk, out-of-school youth enrolled in their WIA program come from families with multiple challenges. Feeling that addressing the needs of those parents would lead to a high degree of youth participant success, they created the Parent Connectio
Program Description(s)
Kindergarten - Grade 5 Programs
Yes
Grades 6 - 12 Programs
Yes
Adult Literacy Programs
Yes
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