Quick Facts

• More than 20% of adults in Forsyth County read below the fifth grade level. The social and economic impact of iliteracy affects the entire community.

• Literacy Initiative offers volunteer tutor workshops throughout the year, in which we train volunteers to tutor nonreaders, low-level readers, and English-as-a-second language students.

• Once trained, volunteer tutors meet with their students twice a week for an hour and thirty minutes per session.

• YMCA Literacy Initiative has worked for 17 years to improve the lives of community members through education programs designed to help adults improve their reading, English, and life skills.

• Since its inception in 1990, the Literacy Initiative has served over 900 individuals in need of literacy services.

• Forsyth County's total Hispanic population is approximately 27,000, comprising about 10% of the county's total population; and adult illiteracy rates for Hispanics in Forsyth County are several times higher than the average for English speaking adults in this area.

• 50% of Hispanics have an average educational level of 7th grade, or less.

• Forsyth County has the state's 4th largest Hispanic Population.

CONTACT US

Ellen Gallimore

Education Coordinator

e.gallimore@ymcanwnc.org

(336) 727-9850

Sonsera Kiger

ESL/Family Literacy Coordinator

s.kiger@ymcanwnc.org

(336) 727-9850

Central Family YMCA

775 West End Boulevard

Winston-Salem, NC 27101

(336) 727-9850