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Expectations of Participants

Literacy Volunteers of Washington County, Inc. fosters and promotes adult literacy in southeastern Connecticut and southwestern Rhode Island.  Through free programs, instructional volunteers bring permanent change to the lives of participants, their families, and our communities.  Some participants are learning English as a second language, and others are native speakers of English who need improved English language skills.  Some are dislocated workers, and all are among the 9,942 Washington County adults identified as members of the target population by the Rhode Island Department of Education, Adult Education. 
Participants work with tutors, small group facilitators, and on research based software in the staffed technology lab.  Web based distance learning with supervision is also available.
Literacy Volunteers of Washington County is an accredited affiliate of ProLiteracy America and is funded in part by the Rhode Island Department of Education, Adult Education.

Participant Registration

Appointments for intake and assessment are offered in September at various times and locations throughout Washington County.  They may be scheduled by appointment throughout the year in the Westerly Literacy Center.  There is a wait list for an individual tutor.  For more information, visit the Westerly Literacy Center during staffed hours, call executive director Mary Lou C. Gentz at 401-596-9411, or email her at litwashcty@verizon.net.    

Becoming a Member

Learn more about literacy, volunteering in the office, tutoring, or joining a literacy study group by visiting the office in the Tower Street School Community Center or by calling Mary Lou Gentz at the above numbers. Newsletters and brochures are available in libraries throughout Washington County.

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Closings for inclement weather follow those for the public schools in a respective town.

December 2009 enews

Office Hours 
Closed Feb 10
 
93 Tower Street
Units 25 and 26
Westerly, RI 02891
 
Staffed Computer Lab
Mon to Thur
9:30 a.m. to noon
Mon and Wed
5:00 to 9:00 p.m.
 
Small Literacy Groups
ABE and ESOL
Mon to Thur
9:30 a.m. to noon
Mon and Wed
5:00 to 9:00 p.m.
 
Citizenship Group
Tuesday 9:30 a.m. 
 
Kingston Free Library
Multi Level ESOL
Conversation Group
Tuesdays
12:15 - 1:45 p.m.
Begins Sept 15
 
The Octagon House
Route 112
Richmond, RI
by appointment
 
Save the Date!!! 
Asian New Year Socials
Feb 24, 5:30 p.m.
Tower Street Literacy Center
Feb 25, 6:00 p.m.
Randall's Real Estate
Wakefield 
 
Tutor Shares
Lessons for
Workplace Literacy
 
March 18
11:00 a.m.
Tower Street
Literacy  Center
 
Feb 25, April 10
6:00 p.m.
Randall Real Estate
Wakefield
 
Annual Meeting and Awards
June 8, 5:30 p.m.
Tower Street School Cafeteria
 
 
Call Mary Lou Gentz at 
401-596-9411 for information
about registering for the
above programs and activities.   
 
 

Questions or comments? Get in touch with us at:

litwashcty@verizon.net

Mailing Address:

93 Tower Street
Units 25 and 26
Westerly, RI 02891

Phone: 401-596-9411

Email Literacy Volunteers of Washington County Inc.
 
 
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