Home of the LINCT Coalition's national office, Long Island now has a 6 learning sites in LINCT Communities throughout Suffolk County. 

Here in Hampton Bays, our partner is the local school district. In space donated by the school district, two teachers and two retired community volunteers work with 30 middle school kids to repair and refurbish computers which go out to LINCT's Learn and Earn classes

LINCT/Time Dollar - Long Island, New York

LINCT is conducting Learn and Earn Classes in six communities on Long Island.
Greenport is one of our oldest LINCT Communities (5 or more years).  It is a partnership with Community Action for Southold Town (CAST), a community action agency focused on family and community development 
Freeport In January, LINCT received a grant from the Long Island Community Foundation designed to support women’s literacy using the Learn and Earn program model. 
Southampton In another famous Hampton, a class designed especially for students with disabilities meets at the local high school, which has donated the space and the phone line (for connecting to the Internet)		 Bellport, about 50 miles west of Greenport is also a coastal community with a very affluent section close to the water and a much poorer section to the north. 
East Hampton (Whalebone Village) Another variation on the Learn & Earn theme is taking place in a small, affordable housing development in the rich and famous community of East Hampton, Long Island. 
Hampton Bays is the home of LINCT’s offices on Long Island.
Integrating Computer Skills and Basic Literacy Skills
Because of our special partnership with the Patchogue/Medford Adult Literacy Consortium, LINCT now has the opportunity (and the obligation) to help participants improve basic literacy skills as well as learn basic computer skills.  It is a challenge because while many of our facilitators are skilled at the computer, they have not been trained in adult basic education.

In fact, many of the facilitators of LINCT Learn and Earn classes are themselves graduates of the program. ( After a two-day orientation and training and a one cycle internship with an experienced facilitator, they become eligible to facilitate in a class of their own and earn a reasonable hourly wage from the Patchogue Medford Schools in keeping with our goal to help people become employed as a result of their technology skills.)

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