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READ*WRITE*NOW! Just Add Kids - August 1996

Literacy Services of Other Organizations

D.C. Family Literacy Project

Georgetown University Law Center
111 F Street NW, Suite 330
Washington, DC 20001
Phone 202-662-9615
Fax 202-662-9444
E-mail roe@law.georgetown.edu
Contact:
Richard L. Roe, Professor of Law and Program Director

The D.C. Family Literacy Project seeks to connect incarcerated parents with their families through activities to build literacy and to develop parenting skills. Children's literature and book-related activities are used to introduce issues of child development, to model developmentally appropriate activities that build literacy for both children and parents, and to provide positive experiences between incarcerated parents and their families. The Project is a collaboration of Georgetown University, the D.C. Department of Corrections, the D.C. Public Library, and First Book. The project currently operates at the Correctional Treatment Facility at the D.C. Department of Corrections.

Delta Sigma Theta Sorority

1707 New Hampshire Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20009
Phone 202-986-2400
Fax 202-986-2513
Contact:
Ella McNair, Director, Program Planning

Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, founded in 1913 at Howard University by 22 undergraduate women, is a private, nonprofit organization that provides services and programs to promote human welfare, which includes literacy and reading. With a membership of 185,000 predominately black college-educated women, the sorority has some 800 chapters in the United States, Japan, Germany, the Virgin Islands, Bermuda, the Bahamas, and South Korea.

Distance Education and Training Council (DETC)

1601 18th Street NW
Washington, DC 20009-2529
Phone 202-234-5100
Fax 202-332-1386
Contact:
Michael P. Lambert, Executive Director

The Distance Education and Training Council (DETC), founded in 1926 as the National Home Study Council, the name by which it was known until 1994, is a nonprofit education association of correspondence study educators promoting the cause of accredited distance learning. Some 60 institutions accredited by the DETC (the independent DETC Accrediting Commission is recognized by the U.S. Secretary of Education and the Commission on Recognition of Postsecondary Accrediting) enroll over 3 million Americans in K-12 courses, in undergraduate college courses, in master's level courses, and postsecondary career training. Literacy is essential for success in distance study courses and the distance study community has a strong interest in ensuring that the American public maintains a high level of literacy if correspondence education is to survive into its second century of service to the nation.
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