2. Our Mission Statement
Strengthening Families by
providing adults with the literacy
skills they need to enjoy a more
productive and self sufficient life.
3. Education Begins At Home
Some Statistics in the U.S. on ADULT How ADULT ILLITERACY impacts the U.S.
ILLITERACY
• Adults who have lower literacy skills
• In the U.S. there are 63 million adults are more likely to be on public
that can’t read well enough to assistance.
understand a newspaper article • Low literacy are highly correlated
written at an eighth grade level. with high crime rates.
• An additional 30 million can only read • Limited literacy skills cost taxpayers
at a fifth grade level or lower. and businesses about 20 billion
• The United States ranks fifth on adult dollars each year in lost
literacy skills when compared to wages, profitability and profits.
other industrialized nations.
4. HOW CAN WE HELP?
• Read to your children daily
• Become a tutor
• Ask your representatives to support adult education
• Volunteer locally
• Make a donation to an adult literacy program
5. Reading Works
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not being able to read. on one instruction can
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• Volunteer to be a tutor
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6. Reach Out and
Read
Become a
Volunteer
Reader
Organize a Book
Drive
Create a
Literacy Rich
Waiting Room
Contribute to a
Reading
Organization
