[NLA] Help For Adult Literacy Outside NIFL

[JATDP@aol.com]

The issues that Eileen outlined are, indeed, critical to any program for 
young folks. I would add to this - build a supportive community among the 
group (ala Youth Build, CityYear, etc.), but with explicit time and safe 
space for females (and males) to explore these issues alone with strong women 
(men) role-models. Gender roles and expectations, violence toward women, 
respect across ages, family concerns, so many critical issues to struggle 
with across cultures. Don't skimp on resources for counselors.

Judy Titzel
World Education
Boston
 
<< Any effort to increase educational attainment for LEP and/or at-risk youth 
 needs to address (or rather, help them address) their unique 
 issues--questions of identity, their place in the world, making a future for 
 themselves where no one they know has gone before. I'd encourage everyone to 
 listen to Lucia Lopez's story on the website for This American Life (you can 
 find it through WBEZ in Chicago's website). It was on last week's show, 
 "What are you looking at?" >>
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