Learning Site for
the Certified Literate Community Program
This section of the
website is designed to support those working with the Certified
Literate Community Program. The Certified Literate
Community Program (CLCP) promotes literacy in Georgia by involving
the whole community. By making literacy a community-wide commitment, a
diversity of key resources are mobilized to promote and
support literacy training. The CLCP is a partnership between the
public sector (education and government) and the private sector
(business and enterprise). This dynamic partnership will result in
improved literacy levels for children, families, and workers in the entire community.
Click here for more information about the
Certified Literacy Community Program
CLCP Newsletter - July 2009 
Public Information Kit
CLCP Quarterly Meetings
Documents from Your CLCP Director
Input Center
Statistics Related to
Literacy
Fundraising and Development
Media Toolkit
Managing Volunteers
Personal Development/Stress
Management
Innovative Ideas
Collaborating with Community Agencies
Working With Your Board
Recommended by Your
Peers
CLCP asks a community to establish a non-profit collaborative to promote, support and enhance community literacy efforts. Communities participating in the program analyze their specific needs, create public awareness of these needs, ensure that relevant learning opportunities are offered, and evaluate the progress of the literacy program so that citizens needing to improve their skills do so within ten years. A CLCP network is formed to coordinate businesses, churches, volunteer organizations, social services, local government, schools, and media in order to reach, influence and support those individuals and groups who want to improve their education.
There are 62 CLCPs encompassing 78 counties and 2 cities. These 62 programs are made up of 37 CLCP Participants (first level of certification) and 25 Certified Literate Communities (second level of certification). The 37 Participants collectively have made the commitment to serve 270,709 individuals. The 25 Certified Literate Communities had a collective numerical goal of 137,943 and served 184,799. Every one exceeded their goal and most did it in less than 10 years. Annually, CLCPs secure over $2 million for their communities and an additional $1 million in in-kind resources.
CLCPs have provided the funding to build adult learning centers, addressed transportation and child care needs, provided materials, equipment, tutors, funding for teacher salaries, class locations and GED Testing scholarships. CLCPs manage local "Dictionary Projects", after school homework programs and school reading initiatives. They work with students in high school to lower drop-out rates. They promote adult literacy services, recruit and retain adult literacy students in the classes and provide a support system to students and literacy providers alike. Communities with CLCPs have more workplace programs, higher enrollment, higher retention rates and more graduations for adult education students.
CLCPs are about economic development, workplace skills, parents able to help their children with their homework, people able to understand and follow prescription medicine directions for themselves and their children, being able to read a map or road sign, immigrants acquiring English language skills and anyone acquiring computer skills. CLCP is about lifelong learning and acquiring a new skill at any point in life.
In its implementation, the CLCP has shown that communities can influence citizens to improve their individual lives, at the same time as they make their communities better places to work and to live. The Certified Literate Community Program is proving that given a sense of mission and commitment, any community can become a powerful, self-managed force for literacy education.
Please explore the Learning Site for Teachers which contains more
helpful resources.
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