Adult Learning Center offers more than reading

By Crystal Vandegrift, Staff Writer

CHARLOTTE COURT HOUSE – Volunteers, tutors and board of supervisors members attended last week’s Annual Meeting/Open House of The Charlotte County Adult Learning Center to hear first hand how the Literacy Program is helping county citizens.

The center’s director, Mora Larson da Silva, told those present that between 2014 and 2015 a total of 116 people were served at the center with 3557 instructional hours.

Volunteer Dorthie Price, who tutored students for 101 hours, said, “If you’re doing something you like and enjoying it you just keep on doing it.”

Statistics show that approximately one in five adults in Charlotte County is unable to read or write.

The Charlotte Adult Learning Center was founded in October 1986, with the mission to help illiterate adults in Charlotte County and surrounding areas learn to read. Since then, the center has grown to teach adults literacy and numeracy, English as a second language, computer skills, adult basic education, and GED preparation.

“The Charlotte Adult Learning Center serves students in Charlotte County by helping them to reach their educational goals which then correlate to their lifelong goals. While we currently are helping students to attain lifelong dreams such as getting their GED, learning to read, or better their English, we also help people become comfortable with our Basic Smartphone Skills and Basic Computer Skills classes, ” said Jessica Moorefield, the center’s Adult Literacy Program Manager.

Tutoring is provided free of charge to those wishing to get help at the center. For more information, contact the Charlotte Adult Learning Center at (434) 542-5782.