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What is the Literacy Volunteers Family Learning Center?
The Family Learning Center at the White Plains Public Library is a new satellite center of Literacy Volunteers of Westchester County. At the center anyone 18 or older (or 16 and no longer in school), who lacks basic reading or conversational English skills can get one-to-one or small group tutoring in Basic Literacy and English as a Second Language.
The Family Learning Center's staff distributes information about the tutoring services of Literacy Volunteers of Westchester County (LVWC) and actively recruits and trains prospective tutors to serve students referred to the Center.
We acknowledge the Junior League of Central Westchester with gratitude for helping us get underway by furnishing the Center.
How does the LVWC Family Learning Center serve literacy students?
The LVWC Family Learning Center helps adults in need of reading skills or English-speaking skills find tutoring in a neighborhood setting that is familiar and convenient.
Initial screenings are offered in the Family Learning Center's testing area. Students are matched with appropriate tutors.
Students meet with their assigned tutors at the White Plains Public Library. Tutoring space and reading materials are also available.
Student and Tutor support workshops will be held regularly at the LVWC Family Learning Center. Here, both tutors and students can voice any questions they may have about the tutoring process.
The LVWC Family Learning Center refers students to other educational and social service agencies as needed.
Who are the Literacy Volunteer tutors?
A group of dedicated volunteers from all walks of life whose goal is to provide the students served by the Family Learning Center with the basic reading and conversational English skills necessary to survive in today's society.
Who are the LVWC Family Learning Center students?
They are some of the 50,000 adults in Westchester County who lack the necessary basic reading and/or conversational English skills they need to cope successfully in their everyday lives.
The Family Learning Center phone number is 914-422-1474.
Please call us for information regarding our hours.
You can make a difference!
Literacy Volunteers of Westchester County (LVWC) is one of the largest affiliates of the national literacy organization, Literacy Volunteers of America.
More than 500 highly trained LVWC volunteers provide one-on-one and small group tutoring to over 1,000 students in libraries, community centers, Head Start Centers, churches, shelters and correctional facilities throughout Westchester County.
We need your help to meet the growing demand for our services.
Please consider tutoring or donating your special skills, such as writing, design, photography, data processing, typesetting and printing, and helping to get the world out to the public on the services offered by LVWC.
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For more information contact:
Literacy Volunteers of Westchester County, Inc.
The Yonkers Public Library
1 Larkin Ct., 2nd Fl
Yonkers, NY 10701
(914) 375-7964