In 1963, Kay Mackley and Dolly Engle, along with others from Church Women United, officially founded Frederick County Laubach Literacy—later to become the Literacy Council of Frederick County (the Literacy Council)—to teach adults how to read using the Laubach method.

The organization operated out of private homes until 1974 when the Evangelical Lutheran Church offered space in its Schaeffer Center on East Second Street in Frederick. In 1982, the Literacy council moved to its current home in the C. Burr Artz Library.

The Literacy Council provides Frederick County adults with pathways to essential literacy skills.

Literacy lifts lives.

Success for the individuals and families we seek to serve rests on a collective community approach that shapes a full path to a thriving life.

We believe in:

• Sustaining our organization through responsible financial stewardship, sound management, and community engagement.
• Teaching a parent in order to educate a family.
• Educating our students in a learner-centered format with compassion, confidentiality, and respect.
• Producing a safer, healthier, economically stronger, and more vibrant community through adult literacy.
• Sustaining, empowering, and energizing a passionate, strong, dedicated volunteer base.

Click HERE to view the Literacy Council’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Statement of Principle