LVA/Verizon Family Literacy & Technology Initiative

Literacy is more than reading and writing. It is interwoven with other social welfare and family issues. Working with families who often face hardships beyond low literacy skills is not always easy, but the work is rewarding.

"We help families build literacy skills, and this often becomes a starting place to create new more positive family patterns," explains the coordinator of an LVA family literacy site.

In 1994, with the support of the Verizon Foundation, LVA established its first Family Learning/Technology Centers. The centers incorporate leading-edge technology to facilitate literacy education for parents and children. They offer families the unparalled opportunity to improve both literacy and technology skills.

Today, the more than 40 Verizon Family Learning/Technology Centers nationwide are testimony to Verizon�s contributions of more than $1 million in financial and technological support for The Verizon/LVA Family Literacy/Technology Initiative.

• The Value of Family Literacy Programs
• Verizon Family Learning/Technology Centers
• What We and Others Have Learned
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  • LVA/Verizon Web Site Directory
  • LVA/Verizon Technology Communications Network
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