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Literacy Centers and Community Resources in Rhode IslandAncillary support / resources These resources are included for easy access to agencies providing support services, information and activities for adult learners and others in communities: The Department of Children, Youth and Families provides a list of licensed day care providers in Rhode Island, a potentially useful resource for adults seeking child care options. Crossroads Rhode Island (formerly Travelers Aid) - housing, vocational and related servicesOpenDoors (formerly the Family Life Center) resource center is a provider of Access to Recovery services in Employment, Housing, Transportation, and Life Skills. In order to be eligible for the program, you must be on probation, and your cause for arrest must be related to a substance abuse problem. You must ask your probation or parole officer to refer you to an assessment to qualify for the program. United Way 2-1-1 in Rhode
Island; find services here: iiTranslates
- translating
and interpreting services, a division of the International Institute of
Rhode Island
If you have information about programs listed here, programs not listed here, and/or questions about adult education programs in the state generally, please contact us. For a list of GED centers, please scroll to the botttom of this page National Directories: US Dollar General's 2010 National Literacy Directory The web-based directory contains more than 8,000 listings. Visit the directory to search for program listings, or click the "Feedback" link on the homepage to add a program listing. Information from the directory also can be accessed through a toll-free number that people can call 24 hours per day, seven days a week, to get a local program referral in English and Spanish. http//www.askri.org has new databases and a new web design. Of particular interest for our field is Mango Languages with ESL Language courses in 15 languages and 22 foreign language courses, the Adult Education and Career Center in http://tutor.com/ (they critique resumes), and Learning Express Library with learning centers for GED prep, job search and workplace skills, jobs and careers, skill building for adults, US citizenship and lots of practice tests and tutorials. Centers and programs at
a glance: a set of listings compiled by STAND (Students
Taking Action Now with Determination) provider list generated by the Rhode Island Adult
Education Community Amos House - The Amos House Literacy Program has moved to the Providence Housing Authority Education and Training Building at Codding Court. Our new address is 144 Dodge Street; phone (401) 228-6640. Amos House Literacy offers ABE classes and provides academic support to our students as they progress through the National External Diploma Program. An Even Start in Newport phone: (401) 845-8579 Aquidneck
Island Adult Learning Center Blackstone Valley Chapter - ARC Blackstone
Valley Community Action Program Pawtucket Bristol
Community College
(Mass.) - Center for Developmental Education Bristol
Warren Adult Learning Center & Continuing Adult Ed. Program
phone: (401) 245-3392 CACD Pawtucket phone (401) 726-8729 Center for Hispanic Policy and Advocacy / Providence phone: (401) 467-0111 Commonwealth Literacy Corps - Bristol Community College - (508) 678-2811 Cranston Adult Learning Center Crossroads RI (formerly Travelers Aid Society of RI) Providence phone (401) 521-2255) DaVinci Center for Community Progress East
Providence Community Center Education Exchange (formerly Washington County Adult Learning Center) phone (401) 783-0293 Even
Start Family Literacy Programs - RIDE listings; Even Start
Family Literacy Programs in Newport, Woonsocket, Pawtucket, and at
Tri-Town Community Action serving Smithfield and Johnston, North
Providence, Foster, Burrillville, and North Smithfield; Providence Even
Start at Dorcas Place, Central Falls, Westerly, Chariho, and North
Kingstown; contact: Charlotte Diffendale, Rhode Island Even Start
Coordinator, at 222-4600 X 1-2457. [note: fall, 2011 - Even Start
programs are no longer funded in RI] Family
Outreach Center GED preparation and testing centers in Rhode Island Goodwill Industries of Rhode Island Institute for Labor Studies and Research International House of Rhode Island Providence phone: (401) 421 - 7181 International Institute of Rhode IslandLiteracy Volunteers of Rhode Island - an affiliate of ProLiteracy America Literacy Volunteers of East Bay - an affiliate of ProLiteracy America Literacy
Volunteers of Kent County
822-9103 Literacy
Volunteers Washington County - 596-9411 Tower Street Community
Center
93 Tower Street, Westerly is now the home of Literacy
Volunteer of Washington County, Westerly Even Start and CCRI
CNA Training programs. 401.348-2790 Network RI One Stop Career Centers Narragansett Indian Adult Vocational Training Northern RI Community Mental Health - (Directory Information)Office of Adult Education - Woonsocket 777 Cass Avenue, (401) 767-4887
Office of Rehabilitation Services Pawtucket Adult Education - library ESOL; COZ, phone: 729-6293 People School - a free community learning project happening all over the providence area Progreso Latino - 626 Broad Street, Central Falls, RI 02863 Tel: (401) 728-5920 Fax: (401) 724-5550 Project Learn - Adult and Family Literacy Programs - Northern RI (401) 769-4200 Project RIRAL Transition to College Providence Public Library Literacy Services - RI Family Literacy Initiative (direct link)PRYSM - Providence Youth Student Movement BRIDGE Program - Building Rhode Islanders' Development and General Education. Rhode Island
College
Outreach
Programs Rhode Island Department of Labor and Training Rhode Island Distance Learning Rhode Island Parent
Information Network RSVP Northern Rhode Island / phone 944-8300 SEDC for Southeast
Asians
(and International
Language Bank) Silver Lake Annex Community Center Smith Hill Center - Smith Hill Center is now part of Capital City Community Centers 455-3880 South Providence Neighborhood Ministries - 747 Broad Street, Providence 461-7509 South
Providence Tutorial Inc. - P.O. Box 5920, Providence, RI
02905
(401) 785-2126 Stepping
Up - Health Care Jobs and Education Transition to College - Project RIRAL Tri Town Community Action Agency / Johnston phone (401)351-2750 University Affiliated Program of Rhode Island at RIC - Paul V. Sherlock Center on Disabilities / Providence phone 456-8072; TTY 456-8773 Urban League of Rhode Island - 246 Praire Ave, Providence 351-5000 URI - Project Leap - Learning Enhancement for Adults Program Vocational Resources/Goodwill Industries / Providence phone 861-2080; email: goodwillri@aol.com Warwick Area Adult Learning Center West Bay Community Action - West Bay CAP 218 Buttonwoods Ave Warwick 02886Day and evening classes for pre-GED, GED, beginning ESL, and advanced ESL run from September to June, registration begins in August, call for start dates throughout the year. West
Warwick Public Library ESL/Family Literacy Center Workforce
Partnership
of Greater RI / East Providence (401) 277-2090 YouthBuild Providence -
401.273.7528 list of GED centers: The following is a listing of GED Testing and Preparation Centers in RI with directors' names and phone numbers. Most centers have GED preparation classes and administer the GED Examination, unless indicated differently. Aquidneck Island Adult Learning Center 435 Broadway, Newport, RI 02840 Director: Stanley Brown Phone: 401 847-7171 http://www.aialc.com Mount Hope High School Bristol, Rhode Island Administered by RIRAL Contact: Cidalia DaSilva Phone: 401 762-3841 http://www.riral.org Community College of Rhode Island-Lincoln Flanagan Campus. Lincoln, RI 02865 Director: Jamie Nash Phone: 401 333-7070 http://www.ccri.edu Community College of Rhode Island-Providence Providence Campus One Hilton Street Providence, RI 02907 Director: Sharon Miles Phone: 401 455-6019 http://www.ccri.edu Cranston Alternate Education Programs 4 Sharpe Drive Cranston, RI 02920 Director: Gayle Dzekevich Phone: 401 270-8166 http://aep.cpsed.net Education Exchange Lily Pads, Building C 33 North Road Peace Dale, RI 02879 Director: Peggy Benz Phone: 401 783-0293 http://www.EdExRI.org Providence - RI Department of Elementary & Secondary Education 255 Westminster Street Providence, RI 02903 Phone: 401 222-8949 http://www.ride.ri.gov Woonsocket GED Testing Center RIRAL 191 Social Street Suite 11, 3rd Floor Woonsocket, RI 02895 Contact: Cidalia DaSilva Phone: 401 762-3841 http://www.riral.org
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