"Literacy Source is a community because people come from different countries but everyone is together, looking for the same thing.” – Carlos Ovieda, Talk Time student
A Community Learning Center
Literacy Source, A Community Learning Center, has been providing unique and responsive adult literacy services since 1986. During our first few years, we focused primarily on adult basic literacy instruction in Seattle’s North End. Today our services include English as a Second Language (ESL) tutoring and conversation classes, computer literacy, workplace basic skills, citizenship and civics classes, immigrant and refugee beginning ESL, and an individualized high school diploma program.
The Literacy Source mission is to build a literate community by providing learner-centered instruction to adults in English literacy and basic life skills. Literacy Source believes that all adults can improve their basic life skills and that community volunteers, trained and supported by professional staff, can make this happen. We welcome the challenge of developing the habit of independent life-long learning.
The Literacy Source story unfolds each day in our office – and in homes, community centers and workplaces around Seattle – as adult learners work toward literacy, language skills, citizenship, better jobs and better lives. Literacy Source makes a difference to students, volunteers, families, employers and communities. We help learners rewrite their stories and rewrite ours along the way!
Literacy Source, A Community Learning Center, is a non-profit corporation registered with the state of Washington, and has 501(c)3 tax-exempt status from the U.S. Internal Revenue Service.