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Phone: 775-356-1007

Email: info@nnlc.org

Northern Nevada Literacy Council’s (NNLC’s) mission is to provide responsive, quality educational opportunities that will enable our adult students to achieve their work, civic, family and personal goals.

NNLC offers three types of services:

Our traditional Programs of Instruction – free of charge to traditional students who attend classes at our Adult Learning Center.

Workplace Programs for Your Employees – Custom designed programs offered on a “fee-for-service” basis.

Tutoring for Your Agency’s Clients – One-on-one tutoring and/or small group tutoring.

NNLC’s instructional offerings are for adults 18 years of age and older who lack a GED or high school diploma, sufficient basic skills to function in the workplace or society, or English proficiency.

Education

NNLC's "Give Yourself the Edge" Program of Instruction helps adults who lack their GED or High School Diploma. This program improves their basic skills and helps achieve their educational goals. We offer an ESL program designed to improve your English skills.

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Training

NNLC’s “Plug Into Choices” career pathways instructional program helps adults master communication, critical thinking and interpersonal skills that will enable them to pursue college classes or vocational training.

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Why NNLC?

18% of all Nevadans 25 years of age and over don’t have a high school diploma. Studies show that high school graduates make an average of 40% more income annually than non-graduates.

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Education is Power

Education is Our Power

Because 45% of the adult population has basic skills deficiencies, adult education services are important to many sectors of society. Northern Nevada Literacy Council, one of Nevada’s eight Adult Basic Education programs, offers classes to provide adults in Washoe County the opportunity to improve their basic skills, English proficiency, or prepare to take the official GED test battery. Improving their skills and obtaining their GED will help these adults become effective citizens and contributing members of society.

Adult Basic Education is important because:

New jobs require advanced skills. Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce concluded that by 2018, 63% of all jobs will require some form of postsecondary education or training.
Children of parents who are unemployed and have not completed high school are 5 times more likely to drop out than children of employed parents.
Dropouts are 8 times more likely to be in jail or prison than high school graduates.
Dropouts from the class of 2008 will cost Nevada almost $1.3 billion in lost wages over their lifetimes.