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Partnerships
Over the years, the Adult Learning Center has collaborated with a
variety of different agencies in developing projects and calling attention to the needs of
the field.
Currently, the Adult Learning Center partners with its parent agency, the Institute for
Literacy Studies and Region 1 of the NYC Department of Education in a family literacy
project funded through Even Start. This project, Project STARS, is based at PS 396 in the
west Bronx, and provides instruction for young children and their parents.
During the past two years, the Adult Learning Center has been involved in a number of
partnerships in the area of health literacy. The ALC has been working with ILS Director
Marcie Wolfe and Lehman College Professor Jane Levitt, head of Lehman's new master's
program in Public Health, to collaborate on a variety of health literacy projects. This
Lehman College working group was instrumental in forming the Bronx Health Literacy
Collaborative, an organization bringing together Bronx-based health and literacy
organizations. In May 2006, the Collaborative hosted a Health Literacy Conference at
Lehman College attended by 200 people from both the health and literacy fields. ALC staff
played a key role in organizing the conference. The ALC also has worked closely with the
Literacy Assistance Center and the Mayor's Office for Adult Literacy on a number of health
literacy projects. ALC staff members Paul Wasserman and Karen Griswold have served on a
Health Literacy Advisory Committee convened by the Mayor's Office on Adult Literacy.
The Adult Learning Center is also an active participant in the network of CUNY-based adult
education programs, which meet regularly to discuss and coordinate approaches to
instruction, staff development, and administration. In addition to networking with other
CUNY programs, we also participate in broad-based organizations that support and advocate
for adult literacy as a field, such as the Grassroots Literacy Coalition, and the
Coalition for Adult Literacy, citywide organizations of students, teachers, and
administrators in adult literacy.
Adult Learning Center staff attend CUNY staff development seminars, and ALC teachers are
frequent presenters at CUNY workshops and conferences. ALC teachers also regularly attend
staff development workshops and seminars at the Literacy Assistance Center.
The ALC has also collaborated with numerous community organizations in terms of referrals
and occasional common projects. Collaborating organizations include FEGS, local branches
of The New York Public Library Centers for Reading and Writing, the Bronx One-Stop Center,
the Fisher Landau Center for the Treatment of Learning Disabilities, Advocates for
Children, the Hunger Action Network, the Bronx Health Link, Inc., Citizens Advice Bureau,
Bronx United Voices, the Fortune Society, and the Urban Justice Center.
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