The Literacy Assistance Center (LAC) is a nonprofit organization established in 1983 to support and promote quality literacy services for adults and youth.
To promote this mission, LAC serves as the hub for adult literacy services in New York City. It also seeks to raise awareness of the value and importance of literacy education for adults among policymakers and the public at large.
LAC provides professional development and coaching services to adult literacy programs, produces curricula, manages the state's adult literacy data collection system, and publishes print and online materials that disseminate promising practices and the latest research to educators.
Much of our effort is devoted to strengthening the pedagogical, management and operational capacity of adult literacy programs to provide effective instruction in adult basic education (ABE), general educational development (GED), career and technical education (CTE) and English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL).
In the past two years, LAC has been expanding its reach by providing literacy services to a rapidly growing list of non-profit organizations and public agencies, including clinics, hospitals, March of Dimes, museums, the NYC Department of Education, and the NYC Department of Health and Mental Health, NYC Department of Youth and Community Development, and Planned Parenthood.
