Category: <span>Impact</span>

Workplace Classes Benefit Employees & Hospitality Industry
August 5, 2020October 8, 2020
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Workplace Classes Benefit Employees & Hospitality Industry

The Literacy Council of Frederick County (LCFC) is partnering with Plamondon Hospitality Partners (PHP) to bring English language classes to hotel associates to benefit their lives both at work and at home.  Associates who work at four Frederick campus hotels attended weekly classes January – March.  They were recently recognized by Plamondon Hospitality Partners for...

Distance Learning Tools Expand Access
May 5, 2020October 8, 2020
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Distance Learning Tools Expand Access

Distance learning tools are now expanding access to learning.  Soon after the Literacy Council’s staff and volunteers were forced to work remotely due to the Coronavirus/COVID-19 public health emergency, it quickly became apparent that in order to provide much-needed support to adult learners served by our programs, now was the time to embrace learning using...

Volunteer Appreciation Week: Celebrating Our Superheroes
April 23, 2020October 8, 2020
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Volunteer Appreciation Week: Celebrating Our Superheroes

The Literacy Council is celebrating Volunteer Appreciation Week April 19-25 by paying tribute to our 150+ wonderful long-time and new volunteers!  You know what it takes to serve our community seven days a week. Today, the adult learners we support through our adult literacy programs are facing even greater obstacles than ever before during these...

Downtown Restaurant Workers Enthusiastic About Learning
October 30, 2019October 8, 2020
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Downtown Restaurant Workers Enthusiastic About Learning

October 30, 2019 – Kitchen workers from downtown Frederick restaurants celebrated “graduation day” at the Literacy Council following completion of a new 10-week English drop-in class focusing on improving communication skills for beginning English speakers.  Vocabulary and conversations center on the food service industry.  The class will continue for another 10-week session, enabling the workers...

LCFC partners with Econo Lodge Frederick to offer workplace literacy classes.
March 19, 2019March 19, 2019
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LCFC partners with Econo Lodge Frederick to offer workplace literacy classes.

In January we expanded our customized workplace classes to include hotel housekeeping staff at the Econo Lodge Frederick. The workplace literacy team met with General Manager, Rupali Luthra, to determine areas of focus for the housekeepers.  Together they developed several objectives, and ESL Instructor Victoria Dos Santos developed a custom 10-week curriculum. The students are...

Literacy Council awarded United Way Community Impact Partner grant – more volunteers will be needed!
June 24, 2018June 24, 2018
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Literacy Council awarded United Way Community Impact Partner grant – more volunteers will be needed!

The Literacy Council is honored to be one of seven charitable organizations approved for grant funding over the next three years through the United Way of Frederick County. The Community Impact Partner grant recipients were chosen based on how the programs fit with United Way’s funding priority areas of health, education and financial stability for...

When Immigrants Learn English . . .
August 17, 2017December 18, 2018
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When Immigrants Learn English . . .

What does our community lose when its immigrant workers speak English poorly or not at all? Let’s look at a Brookings Institute study, “Investing in English Skills: The Limited English Proficient Workforce in U.S. Metropolitan Areas” (Jill H. Wilson, 2014): “English proficiency is a strong predictor of economic standing among immigrants regardless of educational attainment....

Literacy Makes a Difference
June 7, 2017December 18, 2018
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Literacy Makes a Difference

Last year’s adult learners working with the Literacy Council had a total of 183 children under age 18 living at home. This is really something to think about. Think of the difference it makes to these children when their parents learn to read and write or to speak English. No longer do the adults who...

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