Freeport LINCT Community

Freeport LINCT received a grant from the Long Island Community Foundation designed to support women’s literacy using the Learn and Earn program model. Our partner is the Even Start Family Literacy program which is designed to serve undereducated parents and their very young children in the community of Freeport, Long Island.

Currently, young mothers attend the Learn and Earn computer class as part of their overall adult education/GED program. While they learn, their young children participate in an enriched pre-school class emphasizing early literacy development. In the adult class, the instructor integrates basic education lessons with the computer skills training, e.g. students learn word processing and create their writing assignments or vocabulary work on the computer. They also write material they can read to their children.