Services Offered

Coordination and collaboration with literacy and adult education providers of all types in order to best serve the adult learner population and leverage resources.
Staff development for all ESL/ABE/Literacy/Citizenship/GED/HS adult teachers and tutors in the form of workshops, teleconferences, specialized training, and conference opportunities.
Coordination with the Staff Development Institute to provide statewide training of change agents.
Coordination with the San Diego Council on Literacy to promote literacy in the San Diego Area and to host an Adult Learner Conference in Spring 1997.
A Resource Library in the areas of ESL, ABE, Literacy, Citizenship, Workplace Literacy, Family Literacy, and Educational Research. Library materials include learner books, videos, supplemental materials, teacher references, training modules, and software. (Most materials circulate for two week periods; software evaluation is available on site.)
Coordination and collaboration with OTAN, SDE, SDI, and CASAS to provide assistance to the adult education field, especially with compliance of ABE/ESL 321 and ESL/Citizenship regulations.

Key to Community Voter Involvement Project

The purpose of this project is to increase civic participation among adult learners who may feel excluded from the voting process or civic involvement because of lack of education or their cultural background.

The Key to Community Voter Invovlement Project is sponsored by the California State Library and is a partnership of the Santa Clara County Library Reading Program, Center for Civic Literacy, and the Bay Area New Readers Council.

The materials, which were developed with the assistance of adult learners from the Bay Area, address many of the barriers to civic participation: fear of the process, lack of clear information in a readable and understandable format, and limited understanding of how public issues affect them personally.

Key to Community Materials Available from the State Literacy Regional Centers: