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LVA Accreditation: the key to quality literacy services

The primary concern of every LVA program, since our founding in 1962, has been quality services for our students. Launching a new era in its history, and in response to the expressed needs of the volunteer literacy field, LVA has embarked on an ambitious program that establishes quality and accountability standards for volunteer literacy service providers nationwide: the LVA Accreditation Initiative.

Accreditation raises the acceptable performance threshold for LVA affiliates, ensuring that everyone who receives tutoring from LVA receives quality service. But far beyond establishing minimum standards, Accreditation also identifies and shares outstanding educational and management practices within and beyond the LVA network, and encourages every volunteer literacy organization to excel.

"Literacy programs want to produce top quality results for their students, and help students meet their goals. Accreditation is a great tool for programs to do that."

Andrew Hartman, Director
National Institute for Literacy