Literacy Directory

Baptist General Convention of Oklahoma

Boys and Girls Club of Oklahoma County

www.bgcokc.org

The Boys & Girls Clubs of Oklahoma County offers a safe, positive place for Oklahoma City youth to spend their out of school time with programs in Education & Career Development, Character & Leadership Development, Health & Life Skills, The Arts, and Sports, Fitness & Recreation.

Community Literacy Centers

http://www.communityliteracy.com/

Community Literacy Centers is a place where adults learn to read in a safe, welcoming environment. For many adults, CLC provides a second chance at life and opens new doors of opportunity.

We provide free classroom instruction to more than 1,000 adults each year in reading, writing, and mathematics. We also provide individual tutoring for students needing additional support.

El Centro De Oportunidades

http://www.mountstmary.org/page.cfm?p=291

El Centro de Oportunidades strives to improve the quality of life of families living in the area around Mount Saint Mary High School through education. Our focus is to provide English language training to Hispanic adults. We offer classes each semesters per school year: August to December and January to May.

Over 60% of our students are females for whom we offer childcare during class hours and approximately half of the students per session have returned for further instruction. Our goal is to help the Hispanic community increase their English proficiency and help our families break the cycle of poverty. In partnership with Catholic Charities, we also offer Citizenship training for qualifying students wanting to become U.S. Citizens.

Health Alliance for the Uninsured, Inc.

www.hauonline.org

The Health Alliance for the Uninsured is a catalyst for improved health care services for those who otherwise would be unable to obtain them.

Our Friends and Neighbors are Uninsured – The Health Alliance for the Uninsured (HAU) strengthens the efforts of charitable clinics in Oklahoma County by increasing resources and initiating collaborative efforts to meet the health needs of low-income and uninsured persons. Many of those served have limited literacy, thus HAU supports clinic and community educational endeavors.

Literacy Link, Inc

Literacy Link provides one on one tutoring for adults only who are learning to read. The tutoring focuses on reading, comprehension and spelling. ESL tutoring is also available.

Metro Library System

http://www.mls.lib.ok.us/
The Metropolitan Library System facilitates the free flow of information and ideas by providing access to materials, services, and programs to Oklahoma County’s diverse community. The Metropolitan Library System is composed of 12 large, full-service libraries located conveniently throughout Oklahoma County, and five smaller extension libraries, four of which are located in the eastern part of the county in the cities of Harrah, Jones, Luther, and Nicoma Park.

Go to: http://www.mls.lib.ok.us/mls/locations.htm to find a library near you.

OK Christian University Literacy Lunch Program

Literacy Lunches is a program for English as a second language learners. Volunteers from Oklahoma Christian University offer classes on campus and on work sites often during the lunch breaks. The program is the work of Assistant Professor of English Gail Nash.

OKC Public Schools Even Start – PACT (Parents and Children Together)

Oklahoma Literacy Resource Office — Oklahoma State Department of Libraries

www.odl.state.ok.us/literacy

Support organization for library and community-based adult literacy programs.

The mission of the Literacy Resource Office is to provide leadership, resources, training, and information to Oklahoma’s library and community-based literacy network.

lgelders@oltn.odl.state.ok.us
200 NE 18^th St
OKC, OK 73105
405 522-3205

Opportunities Industrialization Center

http://www.oicofoklahomacounty.org/

The mission of the Opportunities Industrialization Center of Oklahoma County, Inc. (OIC) is to empower individuals through Academic and Career education to become productive citizens in the community.

They offer ABE, GED, TANF literacy, Computer Software Applications, Life Skills, Career Education and Assessment (CEA), Drug Education and Prevention and Workforce Literacy classes.

Payne Education Center

http://www.payneeducationcenter.org

Founded in 1984 by Ann and John Henry, the mission of Payne Education Center of OKC is to TRAIN TEACHERS to prevent reading difficulties in children and to remediate dyslexia, while serving as a resource and referral center. Payne Education Center was founded to help the 1 in every 5 children who have the specific reading disability known as dyslexia by training teachers how to teach to all children Multisensory Alphabetic Phonics. Payne Education Center believes that ALL children have the right to learn to read, write and spell with competence.

Rainbow Fleet Child Care and Resource and Referral

http://www.rainbowfleet.org/

Rainbow Fleet’s mission is to provide innovative, educational child development programs and services that enhance the quality of life for children, their families and child care professionals.

Connecting children, parents and families with child care and quality child care consumer education.

Smart Start Central Oklahoma

www.smartstartcentraloklahoma.org
www.earlybirdsok.org

We mobilize community-based collaborations to strengthen families through the creation or expansion of health, early care and education opportunities for young children and their families. Our vision is that Oklahoma County is a nurturing and supportive community for young children and their families so that children are healthy, safe, and eager to learn and ready to succeed when they enter school.

We support several programs and activities in our community, including “Smart Start in the Schools” (which includes parent resource rooms and parent-child activities in elementary schools), Early Birds (school readiness classes for parents and caregivers of birth to five-year-olds in which parents receive information, materials and resources to promote healthy development at home), Reach Out and Read (A family literacy program implemented by pediatricians during 6 month to five-year well-child visits. Pediatricians discuss the importance of reading with parents and also give the child a book to build a home library and encourage shared reading.), Read to Me packets (Given by hospitals to parents when a baby is born. The packet includes baby’s first book, a bib and other support materials.), Raising a Reader (Preschool classrooms around the city have sets of bags with children’s books. The bags go home with children each week, rotating from house to house, to encourage shared reading).

Whiz Kids

www.whizkidsok.org

The mission of City Care’s Whiz Kids is to improve the well-being of inner city youth through academic tutoring and positive mentoring relationships as well as communicating spiritual and moral values. They provide literacy based tutoring and mentoring for elementary age school children.

Masie Bross
masie@whizkidsok.org
923 N. Robinson, Suite 320
OKC, OK 73102
405 602-2815
405 536-9714 Fax