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ALMA works with a network of partner organizations to make literacy education available wherever people go. We have trained over one thousand teachers, administrators and community members at 600 community-based organizations and several state departments of education to adapt our materials to their particular settings, be they adult education centers, hospitals, prisons or churches.
TV411 materials have been purchased for statewide use in 19 states and in hundreds of other literacy programs across the country. The Institute for Career Development, one of the largest labor and management educational initiatives, uses our materials to reach and teach members of the United Steelworkers of America.
What we liked about TV411 is that it views literacy
as we do, contextualized, critical and community-
based…
not as an isolated set of skills.
- Marianne Cucchiarra, Former Director, Project
Freire,
a project of the Brooklyn High School Superintendent’s
Office
The uses of TV411 are as diverse as our partners. Staff at ALMA and Bellevue Hospital in New York City created English and Spanish print materials that volunteers continue to use to help approximately 600 low-literate families each year keep track of their children’s appointments, read medicine labels, and prepare questions for their pediatrician. The reading coordinator for Safety-Net, which serves youth correctional facilities in Texas, Florida and New York, has made TV411 a staple of its educational programming. With the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, we designed and piloted a financial literacy curriculum that combined ALMA’s literacy and media expertise with FDIC’s Money Smart teaching objectives.
With our partners, we continue to expand our offerings and discover innovative uses for TV411. For example, together with the Greater New York Society for Public Health Education (GNYSOPHE), the Greater New York Association for Directors of Volunteer Services (GNYADVS), and New York health education programs and hospitals, we have begun work on Health Smarts While You Wait. This novel project will equip a new generation of educators with literacy and media techniques with which to deliver health literacy training to patients in hospital clinics and waiting rooms.
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