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Workforce Literacy

“Illiteracy may do more damage to our organizations than any foreign competitor or any economic disaster.”

Thomas R. Horton, Former President and CEO American Management Association

It is estimated that American businesses lose over $60 billion in productivity each year due to employees' lack of basic reading skills. One of the major activities Project Literacy has offered in Bergen County for the past 20 years is the development of workplace literacy programs tailored to meet the specific needs of a business or company. Project Literacy can dispatch a team of experts to your company or organization to do the following:

Perform an Adult Literacy Audit:

§ Observe employees to determine the literacy skills they need to do their jobs effectively.

Set the Goals for a Workplace Literacy Program:

§ Clarify and define the workplace needs

Design a Workplace Literacy Program:

§ Provide on-site training to those employees in need of assistance

If you are interested in a workplace literacy program for your employees, please contact Project Literacy at 201-489-7066 or email us at: read@project-literacy.org

Other Local Programs:

There are many fine programs for teaching adults English as a Second Language. The link Berginwib.org PathwaystoLiteracy.pdf will take you to an alphabetical list of towns in Bergen County offering most of these programs.

GED Preparation Sources

For those adults who want to pursue their high equivalency diploma there are several options.

Tuition Classes:

Bergen Community College Ciarco Learning Center
355 Main Street
Hackensack, N.J. 07601
201-489-1551 or 1556
www.bergen.edu/clc

Free Classes:

Bergen County Technical Schools
200 Hackensack Avenue
Hackensack, New Jersey 07601
201-343-6000 Ext.4639

On-line Preparation, Instruction and Practice Tests:

www.back2college.com/library/adult/html
www.gedpractice.com
www.4tests.com
www.gedonline.org

If you do not find the assistance you need, please call Project Literacy at 201-489-7066 or email us at read@project-literacy.org

... help an adult learn to read

… promote literacy in Bergen County

… for yourself, a family member or friend

Project Literacy of Bergen County provides hope and opportunity for adults who cannot read, write, speak English, or perform math. It oversees a free tutoring program for the people of Bergen County and the surrounding area. It administers a scholarship program to the disadvantaged in the community who wish to attend literacy classes at the Bergen Community College

355 Main Street Hackensack, New Jersey
07601 (201 ) 489-7066 | Fax: (201) 968-9732
read@project-literacy.org