Loudoun Literacy Council Information

Loudoun Literacy Council improves lives through reading and learning to promote personal growth and empowerment. As a community-based, nonprofit, educational organization dedicated to improving literacy throughout Loudoun County we recruit and train volunteers to teach adults, both native-speakers and speakers of other languages, to read, speak, write, and understand English; for children, we provide early literacy enrichment for at-risk preschool children and children who reside in our local homeless shelters, while supporting their parents as their child's first teacher. Our classes and programs are available to all who reside or work in Loudoun County. For adults, we offer small ESL classes of various levels and at convenient locations throughout Loudoun County. We also offer individualized and small group tutoring sessions. All services are performed by trained volunteers from the community and overseen by our professional staff. For corporations, we provide Workplace Literacy Programs to employees which allow ESL classes specifically geared toward the vocabulary and customs specific to that industry. For children, we provide the literacy component in each Head Start preschool classroom in the Loudoun County Public Schools. (Head Start serves preschool children who live at or below the poverty line.) Over 100 at-risk children are read to, one on one, each week by our Family Literacy Program Directors. Additionally, we train volunteers to perform bedtime reading to the children residing at in our local homeless shelters. This program teaches parents to better read to their children and shows them how to incorporate literacy enrichment activities and has been shown to raise the literacy levels of the children as well as the parents.