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Heart Literacy offers elementary aged children that need extra help with literacy are matched with a volunteer who spends 20 minutes every week reading with them.
BE REAL Academy, Building and Enhancing Relationships, Enriching Academics and Learning.
Designed for middle school students ages 13-16. Program focuses on developing literacy skills, social/emotional learning, and the important academic and life transitions middle school students experience as they transition to high school. BE REAL also creates opportunities for parent and student engagement.

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Tutoring Services
Youth Enrichment Programs
Literacy Programs
Boys/Girls Clubs
Adult education and family literacy classes are non-credit and provide a range of basic skill instruction, English as a Second Language, GED preparation, and in some cases, high school credit. Classes are informal and instruction is individualized. Classes may be held in a variety of facilities, including churches, industrial plants, schools, libraries, and housing projects.

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High School Equivalency/GED Test Instruction
Literacy Programs
English as a Second Language
Adult Basic Education

Full service public lending library, reference, children's, videos, music cassettes/CDs, books on tape and CD, DVDs, online databases, and e-books. Internet access and wi-fi available. Computer labs. Free computer classes for youth, teens, and adults on MS Office software programs, internet surfing, internet job searching, and other classes; call or see website for details.

Programming for children, young adults, and adults.

Meeting rooms and study rooms are available at some locations.

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Literacy Programs
Public Internet Access Sites
Library Services
Computer Literacy Training Programs

Character and leadership development. Programs include aquatics, arts, sports, fitness and recreation, health and life skills, educational and career development, job training, career preparation, tutoring services, and age appropriate community service.

Outdoor activities, including Carter Lake Summer Camp (Mon-Fri 8 am-4 pm).

Meals served. Limited bus service - call for details.

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Mentoring Programs
Tutoring Services
Team Sports/Leagues
Literacy Programs
Boys/Girls Clubs
Offers a free afterschool/summer literacy development program that utilizes trained volunteer tutors to provide individualized reading support sessions for enrolled participants in first and second grades. Each session contains a skill lesson component to learn and apply new reading skills as well as provide a positive shared reading experience for both student and volunteer.

Provides adult volunteers who offer one on one tutoring support for reading, speaking and spelling problems. Free assessments provide information on specific literacy skill needs.

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Literacy Programs
Tutoring Services
Writing Instruction

Provides adolescent pregnancy prevention programs such as, Draw the Line, Love Notes and other research based curriculum to school districts and community organizations. These programs are available in 8 counties Appanoose, Clarke, Dallas, Davis, Decatur, Marion, Ringgold and Wapello Counties.


Expectant and Parenting Teen program available for Dallas, Decatur, Marion and Wapello Counties. Parents as Teachers parent education home visiting available for 0-5 in Decatur County, Iowa. Family literacy, GED/HSED available to residents in Decatur County, Iowa.

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Parenting Materials
Nutrition Education
Life Skills Education
High School Equivalency/GED Test Instruction
Parent/Child Instruction
Literacy Programs
Adult Basic Education
Parenting Skills Classes
Character and leadership development. Programs include aquatics, arts, sports, fitness and recreation, health and life skills, educational and career development, job training, career preparation, tutoring services, and age appropriate community service.

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Literacy Programs
Tutoring Services
Boys/Girls Clubs
Team Sports/Leagues
Mentoring Programs
Assists unemployed and/or underemployed tribal members by:
  • Improving educational opportunities for tribal members who lack the level of literacy skills necessary for effective citizenship and productive employment,
  • Provide tribal members with sufficient basic education to enable them to benefit from job training and retraining programs and to obtain and retain productive employment, and
  • Enable tribal members, who so desire, to continue their education to at least the level of completion of adult secondary education (Diploma/GED)
Eligible activities include:
  • Enable Indian adults to acquire basic educational skills, including literacy,
  • Provide educational services or instruction for elderly, disabled, or incarcerated Indian adults,
  • If previously unemployed, purchase apparel that is required by job/duty,
  • Tutor fees for GED exam, and GED exam fees
Applications are due at least 30 day before the start of the program in which you are applying for.
Literacy program for K-5th grade students at Clinton, McPhee, and Hartley Elementary schools in Lincoln. In addition to in-school tutoring, Impact Reading tutoring is available at City Impact. Struggling readers are matched with a trained volunteer tutor who utilizes provided literacy curriculum. The goal is to get each student to or above grade reading level.

Services offered include:

ESL or English as a Second Language is a program for people who speak, read and write best in a language other than English and desire to improve their use of the English language. Entry-level English through college-prep English is available.

HiSET and High School Completion Center (testing and prep).

Adult Literacy program provides opportunities for adults in need of literacy skills and refresher basics in reading, writing and math. Adult Literacy classes are offered at various locations in and around Des Moines and in cooperation with local schools and organizations.

COLLEGE (core) classes for DMACC's associate degree programs and non credit classes for personal and professional development.

Continuing Education Classes are offered at DMACC.

Business Consulting

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High School Equivalency/GED Test Sites
Literacy Programs
Continuing Education
Citizenship Education
English as a Second Language
High School Equivalency/GED Test Instruction
Provides one-on-one business coaching for entrepreneurs. Whether just starting a business, purchasing a business, growing a business, or are ready to exit from a business, the SBDC can assist. The coaching provided by the SBDC is confidential and offered to small business owners at no charge.

SBDC staff can assist you with a wide range of challenges entrepreneurs face. Counselors can help with strategic planning for a business, and help improve operations and marketing efforts. The SBDC can also help with financial forecasting and strategies to keep the business financially healthy. When it comes time to purchase or sell a business, the SBDC can help navigate that process.

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English as a Second Language
Literacy Programs
Adult Basic Education
Business Assistance Services
Library Services

Literacy, basic skills, GED, and ESL classes for students of other cultures.

Adult and continuing education programs.

Adult basic education.

Classes also meet at the following location:

Ord - Ord Learning Center, 1514 K Street, Suite 1; call (308) 728-3299 for information.

Categories

High School Equivalency/GED Test Instruction
English as a Second Language
Adult Basic Education
Literacy Programs

Full service public lending library, reference, children's, videos, music cassettes/CDs, books on tape and CD, DVDs, online databases, and e-books. Internet access and wi-fi available. Computer labs. Free computer classes for youth, teens, and adults on MS Office software programs, internet surfing, internet job searching, and other classes; call or see website for details.

Programming for children, young adults, and adults.

Meeting rooms and study rooms are available at some locations.

Categories

Literacy Programs
Public Internet Access Sites
Library Services
Computer Literacy Training Programs

Character and leadership development. Programs include aquatics, arts, sports, fitness and recreation, health and life skills, educational and career development, job training, career preparation, tutoring services, and age appropriate community service.

Outdoor activities, including Carter Lake Summer Camp (Mon-Fri 8 am-4 pm).

Meals served. Limited bus service - call for details.

Categories

Mentoring Programs
Tutoring Services
Team Sports/Leagues
Literacy Programs
Boys/Girls Clubs

Full service public lending library, reference, children's, videos, music cassettes/CDs, books on tape and CD, DVDs, online databases, and e-books. Internet access and wi-fi available. Computer labs. Free computer classes for youth, teens, and adults on MS Office software programs, internet surfing, internet job searching, and other classes; call or see website for details.

Programming for children, young adults, and adults.

Meeting rooms and study rooms are available at some locations.

Categories

Literacy Programs
Public Internet Access Sites
Library Services
Computer Literacy Training Programs

Character and leadership development. Programs include aquatics, arts, sports, fitness and recreation, health and life skills, educational and career development, job training, career preparation, tutoring services, and age appropriate community service.

Outdoor activities, including Carter Lake Summer Camp (Mon-Fri 8 am-4 pm).

Meals served. Limited bus service - call for details.

Categories

Mentoring Programs
Tutoring Services
Team Sports/Leagues
Literacy Programs
Boys/Girls Clubs
Head Start, Early Head Start, and Title I Migrant Education programs.

Early Development Network Services Coordination.

Grantee for Region 9 Planning Region Team.

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Early Childhood Education
Literacy Programs

Works with adults and families to meet literacy goals in reading, writing, math, English, and life skills. Adults receive free tutoring services in reading (newspapers, product labels, letters from school, doctor's instructions, street signs, recipes, etc.), writing (filling out job applications, completing forms), math (balancing bank accounts, counting money, measuring, understanding bills), building skills to prepare for a high school equivalency test (GED, TASC, HiSET).

Offers to assist former refugee families through education, family wellness, work readiness and economic development programs.

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Literacy Programs
Family Preservation Programs
Immigrant/Refugee Employment Programs

Works with adults and families to meet literacy goals in reading, writing, math, English, and life skills. Adults receive free tutoring services in reading (newspapers, product labels, letters from school, doctor's instructions, street signs, recipes, etc.), writing (filling out job applications, completing forms), math (balancing bank accounts, counting money, measuring, understanding bills), building skills to prepare for a high school equivalency test (GED, TASC, HiSET).

Identifies, promotes, and supports early childhood interventions in order to reduce the achievement gap between lower and higher income students.

Literacy, basic skills, GED, and ESL classes for students of other cultures.

Adult and continuing education programs.

Adult basic education.

Classes also meet at the following location:

Ord - Ord Learning Center, 1514 K Street, Suite 1; call (308) 728-3299 for information.

Categories

High School Equivalency/GED Test Instruction
English as a Second Language
Adult Basic Education
Literacy Programs

Literacy, basic skills, GED, and ESL classes for students of other cultures.

Adult and continuing education programs.

Adult basic education.

Classes also meet at the following location:

Ord - Ord Learning Center, 1514 K Street, Suite 1; call (308) 728-3299 for information.

Categories

High School Equivalency/GED Test Instruction
English as a Second Language
Adult Basic Education
Literacy Programs