LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA- PRINCE WILLIAM INC.
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Mission Statement
To provide low literate and medically underserved adults in Prince William County dignity, equity, and inspiration through the gift of literacy and health literacy. About our Mission For over 30 years, Literacy Volunteers – Prince William (LVA-PW) has helped thousands of low income, low literate adults improve their English skills so that they can better provide for themselves, their families, and contribute and prosper in the very communities they live. But a growing problem with serious implications requires our immediate attention: low health literacy. It is a problem with wide ranging consequences. This is why the LVA-PW mission has expanded to now include helping alleviate low health literacy in the communities we serve. Our commitment to the mission is all encompassing; we will integrate health-related topics into every ESL/Conversation class offered to students. This ensures we reach and teach hundreds of low income, low literate, medically underserved residents each year in PWC. We will also offer classes specific to health literacy both online and onsite at Prince William County libraries.
About This Cause
Literacy Volunteers - Prince William offers low literate residents of the County, free of charge, a variety of classes: from Conversation classes for students just starting out to learn and understand English to ESL classes, from Citizenship to Health Literacy classes. Each 12-week session offers 12-15 varied classes. All our classes use trained and certified volunteer tutors. Classes are available online or on site at our facility or at the public libraries. We also teach parents of ESL students at numerous PWC schools. Who We Serve Currently, one-in-four adult residents in Prince William County are foreign-born. In a recent survey, 6% of all foreign-born adult residents in Prince William County reported speaking English "not well" or "not at all". This represents about 6,500 foreign-born adult residents in PWC who do not speak English at all or not very well. This is a sampling of who we currently serve in our communities. The situation is not going to change anytime soon. By 2040, there will be 225,000 foreign-born adult residents in PWC. This projects to over 13.5K foreign-born adult residents in PWC who do not speak English at all or not very well, double the population in less than 20 years. Of the 400+ adult students currently enrolled in our Basic English and ESL classes at LVA-PW, this is the demographic breakdown. • All are adults over 18 years of age • All are low income, low literate • 81% are Women • 35% are Hispanic • 35% are Middle Eastern or from Central Asia • 10% are African-American We also instruct an additional 180 adult Learners who are parents of ESL students at five Title 1 schools in Prince William County. This is a program we run in addition to our general educational offerings. The original program was called PEP (Parents as Educational Partners). It was funded by the Virginia Department of Education. Unfortunately, the program has been defunded. The need, however, still very much exists. As such, we are continuing to provide instructional support at PWC Public Schools for our adult Learners at no cost.