Welcome to the
East Texas
Literacy Council!
We are a nonprofit 501c(3) community based organization dedicated
to changing lives through literacy. ETLC provides a variety of services
to enable adult learners to achieve personal goals and self-sufficiency through literacy.
Free one-to-one and small group instruction is offered to adults and
out of school youth who need basic literacy skills (reading, math, writing,
and pre-GED), and English as a Second Language (ESL) skills.
Our computer learning labs offer individualized instruction
in basic literacy and ESL.
Community volunteers are valued as one-to-one tutors with adult learners.
Each year training is given to adults who desire to work with adult learners
and help them reach their personal literacy goals.
The ETLC's Computer Learning Center and main office are located in the
Longview News Journal Building, 320 East Methvin in Longview.
Church partners in Longview and Kilgore provide sites for ESL classes and
computer-assisted ESL instruction.
For twenty-four years ETLC has worked to help adults of Gregg County
improve their lives, the lives of their families, and community
by improving their literacy skills!
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"I have been working for the same company for 22 years and
have always wanted to be able to use my reading and writing on my job.
Now that is becoming a reality for me
thanks to the Literacy Council and my tutor.
When my two children were young, I was never able to read a book to them.
Now I can read to my youngest son and that is a great feeling! "
-- Paul, ETLC Student
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ETLC was the first affiliate in the nation
accredited by ProLiteracy America
(formerly Literacy Volunteers of America )
in March 2000 and has maintained accreditation since that time.
ETLC is a Greater Longview
United Way partner agency
as well as the
Kilgore and Hallsville United Funds.
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