ALPS

Why Literacy?

*Literacy is more important in the Information Age than ever before. The Internet holds immense potential for the future… but only to those who can read.

Poor reading, writing and speaking skills limit a person’s opportunities for the “Pursuit of Happiness” that our Founding Fathers held dear. Imagine how different your life would be if you couldn’t read or understand job applications, newspapers, instruction manuals, prescription labels, menus, street signs, and legal documents.

Adult Literacy Plus of Southwest Arizona fosters literacy

Literacy: “…an individual’s ability to read, write, and speak… and compute and solve problems at levels of proficiency necessary to function on the job and in society, and to achieve one’s goals, and develop one’s knowledge and potential.”

 

ADULT LITERACY PLUS STAFF

Diana Santoyo-Executive Director

Jesse Figueroa -Distance Learning

Frank Orduno, GED/ABE Instructor

Maria Johnson – ESL Instructor

Carrie Zaragoza – GED/ABE Instructor

Claudia Mendoza – GED/ABE Instructor

Christa Pollex- GED/ABE Instructor

Maria Duarte- GED/ABE Instructor

Anna Estrada, Adminstrative Assistant

Blanca Garcia – ESL Instructor- San Luis

 

Board of Directors

Robert Roeser– President

Carlos Figari – Vice President

Gilberto Villegas – Treasurer

Martha Guzman – Secretary

 

Members

Kathryn Figari

Arturo Morales

 

Adult Literacy Plus of Southwest Arizona

825 S. Orange AvenueYuma, Arizona 85364

Office phone number 928-343-9363

Office fax number 928-539-1918

The Adult Literacy Plus of Southwest Arizona is a nonprofit organization and has been serving the community continually since 1981.

United Way of Yuma County

180 W. 1st Street, Suite #B

Yuma, Arizona 85364

(928) 783-0515 – office / (928) 782-5463 – fax www: unitedwayyuma.org

A United Way Member Agency

 

The Adult Literacy Plus is  affiliated with:

ProLiteracy America Greater Arizona Literacy Coalition