Literacy Pros of Jacksonville » Quick Facts http://www.literacypros.org Trainers and tutors finding new ways to provide literacy training to the community Sun, 13 Dec 2009 10:21:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Welcome http://www.literacypros.org/home http://www.literacypros.org/home#comments Sun, 13 Dec 2009 08:13:31 +0000 Website Administrator http://www.literacypros.org/?p=40 Literacy Pros of Jacksonville, Inc. was founded in 2003 by a local group of dedicated literacy volunteers. These trainers and tutors were interested in finding new ways to deliver literacy training to the community. Their decision to focus on organizations or agencies that want a literacy project with its own tutors and students has enabled the group to establish other literacy programs. This focus on tutor training has been integral to the success of the Prison Literacy Program, administered in conjunction with the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office.

Mission Statement

To train individuals, primarily in Northeast Florida, to effectively teach basic literacy skills and to prepare interested tutors to become Certified Literacy Trainers.

]]> http://www.literacypros.org/home/feed 0 Literacy in Jacksonville http://www.literacypros.org/literacy-in-jacksonville http://www.literacypros.org/literacy-in-jacksonville#comments Sun, 13 Dec 2009 07:56:10 +0000 Website Administrator http://www.literacypros.org/?p=30 According to a 1999 JCCI study Literacy in Jacksonville and the surrounding communities, the literacy rate in Northeast Florida is approximately 53%.    This means that 47% of adults have extremely low or non-existent literacy skills.

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