Helps Other People Excel in life through English instruction
by establishing, equiping, operating, supporting,
and resourcing church and community
literacy programs.
The purpose of LIFT is simple...To teach illiterate and low literate adults to read English. It does not matter why they cannot read; it is the mission of Literacy Instruction for Texas "to enhance lives and strengthen communities by raising the adult literacy rate in Texas".
Debes Creer en Ti/Believe in Yourself (DCET) is a non-profit organization in Irving, Texas, founded in 1997. DCET is as an Educational, Cultural and Charitable, 501©(3) non-profit organization accredited by the Internal Revenue Service, under employment number: 31-164-0064. Our is to provide Literacy programs,workforce development and support other educational initiatives that prepare immigrant, Hispanic/Latino youth and their families to improve the quality of their lives.
The Adult Reading Center, established in August of 1987, is the only volunteer-based literacy provider in the Pearland area. We provide FREE instruction to adults who have difficulty functioning effectively in the community due to poor English speaking, reading, or writing skills. The Center utilizes the Laubach method of instruction as our core curriculum. It is phonics-based with four basic levels of instruction that can take a non-reader to a sixth-grade reading level. Videos, audiotapes and other curricula are available as needed to meet each student’s individual needs.
The national and international organizations of adult literacy programs - not an acronym but a merger of two acronyms standing for long standing adult literacy organizations.
The Texas Adult Education and Family Literacy Partnership (housed in the Harris County Department of Education) provides nondiscretionary grant management functions, program assistance and other statewide support services to Texas Adult Education and Family Literacy. http://www-tcall.tamu.edu/texasLearns/
This is a state organization providing funding, standards, and accountability for education organizations in Texas.
Texas Center for Adult Literacy and Learning-based at Texas A&M, it serves as a resource and information base for adult literacy organizations in Texas. www-tcall.tamu.edu
Approximately 5,700 churches are partnering together for ministry and evangelism to form the Baptist General Convention of Texas. The mission of the Baptist General Convention of Texas is to assist churches and related ministries to be the presence of Christ in the world.
In 1956 President Dwight Eisenhower challenged the people of Waco to begin a literacy center. The next year the Laubach Literacy Center at Baylor was opened. For more than a decade this Center assisted in beginning church-based literacy ministries. Since that time Baylor University played a significant role in helping persons with literacy needs in Texas.
Texas Christian Women's Job Corps is a non-profit, faith based organization offering training opportunities in which women help women. The purpose is to provide Christian training in which women in need are equipped for life and employment.
Dallas Baptist University initiates new certification program for ESL.
The Rural Poverty Initiative of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship has two objectives: (1) assist the twenty poorest counties in the United States improve that status over the next twenty years, and (2) nurture the “spillover effect” among persons ministering in those twenty counties.
