Yuma County Library District

Why Literacy?

*Literacy is more important in the Information Age than ever before. The Internet holds immense potential for the future... but only to those who can read.

Poor reading, writing and speaking skills limit a person's opportunities for the "Pursuit of Happiness" that our Founding Fathers held dear. Imagine how different your life would be if you couldn't read or understand job applications, newspapers, instruction manuals, prescription labels, menus, street signs, and legal documents.

Adult Literacy Plus of Southwest Arizona fosters literacy

Literacy: "...an individual's ability to read, write, and speak... and compute and solve problems at levels of proficiency necessary to function on the job and in society, and to achieve one's goals, and develop one's knowledge and potential."

AWARDS

Arizona Department of EducationSuperintendents Award– 2002

Program performance– 2002,2003, 2004, 2005, 2006,2007

Most Successful Distance Learning Program– 2006, 2007

Yuma County Education Hall of Fame– Inducted 1999

Point of Light– July 2001

Outstanding Program– ProLiteracy America– June 1996

Madora Ingalls Library Service -April 1999

Outstanding National Tutor—ProLiteracy America 2002

Heart of Yuma—Outstanding Volunteer 2005

Membership

Yuma Community Foundation

Leave a Legacy

Yuma Area Non Profit Institute

Yuma County Adult Education Consortium

ProLiteracy Worldwide/ America

Greater Arizona Literacy Coalition

ADULT LITERACY PLUS STAFF

Regina Vieyra - Interim Executive Director

Jesse Figueroa -Distance Learning

Frank Orduno, GED/ABE Instructor

Lidia Pizano – ESL Instructor

Carrie Rube Rodriguez – GED/ABE Instructor

Phillip Smith – GED/ABE Instructor

Karla Jauregui, Adminstrative Assistant

Blanca Garcia – ESL Instructor- San Luis

Board of Directors

Kathryn Figari, M.Ed. – President

Robert Roeser – Vice President

Naomi Comstock - Treasurer

Susan Evans - Secretary

Members

Steve Delarm

Kayle Haws, O.D.

Jennifer Adair

Pamela Needyk

Adult Literacy Plus of Southwest Arizona

825 S. Orange AvenueYuma, Arizona 85364

Office phone number 928-343-9363

Office fax number 928-539-1918

The Adult Literacy Plus of Southwest Arizona is a nonprofit organization and has been serving the community continually since 1981.

United Way of Yuma County

180 W. 1st Street, Suite #B

Yuma, Arizona 85364

(928) 783-0515 – office / (928) 782-5463 – fax www: unitedwayyuma.org

A United Way Member Agency

The Adult Literacy Plus is  affiliated with:

ProLiteracy America Greater Arizona Literacy Coalition