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Character and leadership development. Programs include aquatics, arts, sports, fitness and recreation, health and life skills, educational and career development, job training, career preparation, tutoring services, and age appropriate community service.

Outdoor activities, including Carter Lake Summer Camp (Mon-Fri 8 am-4 pm).

Meals served. Limited bus service - call for details.

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Mentoring Programs
Tutoring Services
Team Sports/Leagues
Boys/Girls Clubs
Literacy Programs
Adult education and family literacy classes are non-credit and provide a range of basic skill instruction, English as a Second Language, GED preparation, and in some cases, high school credit. Classes are informal and instruction is individualized. Classes may be held in a variety of facilities, including churches, industrial plants, schools, libraries, and housing projects.

Categories

High School Equivalency/GED Test Instruction
English as a Second Language
Literacy Programs
Adult Basic Education
Education and support to parents, encouraging them to further their education, increase their literacy skills, and be involved with their children's learning experiences.
Full service public lending library, reference, children's, videos, music cassettes/CDs, books on tape and CD, DVDs, online databases, and e-books. Internet access and wi-fi available. Computer labs. Free computer classes for youth, teens, and adults on MS Office software programs, internet surfing, internet job searching, and other classes; call or see website for details.
Programming for children, young adults, and adults.

Meeting rooms and study rooms are available at some locations.

Categories

Public Internet Access Sites
Literacy Programs
Library Services
Computer Literacy Training Programs

Literacy, basic skills, GED, and ESL classes for students of other cultures.

Adult and continuing education programs.

Adult basic education.

Classes also meet at the following location:

Ord - Ord Learning Center, 1514 K Street, Suite 1; call (308) 728-3299 for information.

Categories

Literacy Programs
Adult Basic Education
High School Equivalency/GED Test Instruction
English as a Second Language
Full service public lending library, reference, children's, videos, music cassettes/CDs, books on tape and CD, DVDs, online databases, and e-books. Internet access and wi-fi available. Computer labs. Free computer classes for youth, teens, and adults on MS Office software programs, internet surfing, internet job searching, and other classes; call or see website for details.
Programming for children, young adults, and adults.

Meeting rooms and study rooms are available at some locations.

Categories

Public Internet Access Sites
Literacy Programs
Library Services
Computer Literacy Training Programs
Full service public lending library, reference, children's, videos, music cassettes/CDs, books on tape and CD, DVDs, online databases, and e-books. Internet access and wi-fi available. Computer labs. Free computer classes for youth, teens, and adults on MS Office software programs, internet surfing, internet job searching, and other classes; call or see website for details.
Programming for children, young adults, and adults.

Meeting rooms and study rooms are available at some locations.

Categories

Public Internet Access Sites
Literacy Programs
Library Services
Computer Literacy Training Programs
Character and leadership development. Programs include aquatics, arts, sports, fitness and recreation, health and life skills, educational and career development, job training, career preparation, tutoring services, and age appropriate community service.

Outdoor activities, including Carter Lake Summer Camp (Mon-Fri 8 am-4 pm).

Meals served. Limited bus service - call for details.

Categories

Mentoring Programs
Tutoring Services
Team Sports/Leagues
Boys/Girls Clubs
Literacy Programs

Services offered include:

ESL or English as a Second Language is a program for people who speak, read and write best in a language other than English and desire to improve their use of the English language. Entry-level English through college-prep English is available.

HiSET and High School Completion Center (testing and prep).

Adult Literacy program provides opportunities for adults in need of literacy skills and refresher basics in reading, writing and math. Adult Literacy classes are offered at various locations in and around Des Moines and in cooperation with local schools and organizations.

COLLEGE (core) classes for DMACC's associate degree programs and non credit classes for personal and professional development.

Continuing Education Classes are offered at DMACC.

Business Consulting

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Continuing Education
English as a Second Language
Citizenship Education
High School Equivalency/GED Test Instruction
High School Equivalency/GED Test Sites
Literacy Programs
Character and leadership development. Programs include aquatics, arts, sports, fitness and recreation, health and life skills, educational and career development, job training, career preparation, tutoring services, and age appropriate community service.

Outdoor activities, including Carter Lake Summer Camp (Mon-Fri 8 am-4 pm).

Meals served. Limited bus service - call for details.

Categories

Mentoring Programs
Tutoring Services
Team Sports/Leagues
Boys/Girls Clubs
Literacy Programs
Full service public lending library, reference, children's, videos, music cassettes/CDs, books on tape and CD, DVDs, online databases, and e-books. Internet access and wi-fi available. Computer labs. Free computer classes for youth, teens, and adults on MS Office software programs, internet surfing, internet job searching, and other classes; call or see website for details.
Programming for children, young adults, and adults.

Meeting rooms and study rooms are available at some locations.

Categories

Public Internet Access Sites
Literacy Programs
Library Services
Computer Literacy Training Programs
Full service public lending library, reference, children's, videos, music cassettes/CDs, books on tape and CD, DVDs, online databases, and e-books. Internet access and wi-fi available. Computer labs. Free computer classes for youth, teens, and adults on MS Office software programs, internet surfing, internet job searching, and other classes; call or see website for details.
Programming for children, young adults, and adults.

Meeting rooms and study rooms are available at some locations.

Categories

Public Internet Access Sites
Literacy Programs
Library Services
Computer Literacy Training Programs

Community college.

GED preparation and testing.

ESL - English as a Second language classes.

Adult basic education, including literacy, job seeking, and life skills education.

Citizenship preparation.

Tutors available in various locations in the Panhandle.

Single parent / displaced homemaker program provides career counseling, dependent care, non-traditional training, skills training, technology training, books and tuition, personal counseling, support groups, and transportation. Contact a student services advisor for information.

Veterans Upward Bound programs offer intensive basic skills development and short-term remedial courses for military veterans to help them successfully transition to post-secondary education.

Categories

Literacy Programs
Citizenship Education
Life Skills Education
High School Equivalency/GED Test Sites
High School Equivalency/GED Test Instruction
English as a Second Language
Community Colleges
Tutoring Services
Career Counseling
Adult Basic Education
Identifies, promotes, and supports early childhood interventions in order to reduce the achievement gap between lower and higher income students.
Offers a free afterschool/summer literacy development program that utilizes trained volunteer tutors to provide individualized reading support sessions for enrolled participants in first and second grades. Each session contains a skill lesson component to learn and apply new reading skills as well as provide a positive shared reading experience for both student and volunteer.

Literacy, basic skills, GED, and ESL classes for students of other cultures.

Adult and continuing education programs.

Adult basic education.

Classes also meet at the following location:

Ord - Ord Learning Center, 1514 K Street, Suite 1; call (308) 728-3299 for information.

Categories

Literacy Programs
Adult Basic Education
High School Equivalency/GED Test Instruction
English as a Second Language

Literacy, basic skills, GED, and ESL classes for students of other cultures.

Adult and continuing education programs.

Adult basic education.

Classes also meet at the following location:

Ord - Ord Learning Center, 1514 K Street, Suite 1; call (308) 728-3299 for information.

Categories

Literacy Programs
Adult Basic Education
High School Equivalency/GED Test Instruction
English as a Second Language
Assists unemployed and/or underemployed tribal members by:
  • Improving educational opportunities for tribal members who lack the level of literacy skills necessary for effective citizenship and productive employment,
  • Provide tribal members with sufficient basic education to enable them to benefit from job training and retraining programs and to obtain and retain productive employment, and
  • Enable tribal members, who so desire, to continue their education to at least the level of completion of adult secondary education (Diploma/GED)
Eligible activities include:
  • Enable Indian adults to acquire basic educational skills, including literacy,
  • Provide educational services or instruction for elderly, disabled, or incarcerated Indian adults,
  • If previously unemployed, purchase apparel that is required by job/duty,
  • Tutor fees for GED exam, and GED exam fees
Applications are due at least 30 day before the start of the program in which you are applying for.
Teaches adult students reading, writing, and math literacy skills free of charge, and regardless of age, income, background, race, or religion. Students receive free literacy education though the agency's Four Pillars of Programming: One-on-One tutoring, Group Classes, the Language and Learning Lab with access to various self-paced computer programs, and the Community Connection Center, where members of the public can gather to assist students and have conversation practice.

Categories

Literacy Programs
High School Equivalency/GED Test Instruction

Offers to assist former refugee families through education, family wellness, work readiness and economic development programs.

Categories

Immigrant/Refugee Employment Programs
Family Preservation Programs
Literacy Programs
Adult education and family literacy classes are non-credit and provide a range of basic skill instruction, English as a Second Language, GED preparation, and in some cases, high school credit. Classes are informal and instruction is individualized. Classes may be held in a variety of facilities, including churches, industrial plants, schools, libraries, and housing projects.

Categories

High School Equivalency/GED Test Instruction
English as a Second Language
Literacy Programs
Adult Basic Education
Full service public lending library, reference, children's, videos, music cassettes/CDs, books on tape and CD, DVDs, online databases, and e-books. Internet access and wi-fi available. Computer labs. Free computer classes for youth, teens, and adults on MS Office software programs, internet surfing, internet job searching, and other classes; call or see website for details.
Programming for children, young adults, and adults.

Meeting rooms and study rooms are available at some locations.

Categories

Public Internet Access Sites
Literacy Programs
Library Services
Computer Literacy Training Programs
Full service public lending library, reference, children's, videos, music cassettes/CDs, books on tape and CD, DVDs, online databases, and e-books. Internet access and wi-fi available. Computer labs. Free computer classes for youth, teens, and adults on MS Office software programs, internet surfing, internet job searching, and other classes; call or see website for details.
Programming for children, young adults, and adults.

Meeting rooms and study rooms are available at some locations.

Categories

Public Internet Access Sites
Literacy Programs
Library Services
Computer Literacy Training Programs
Character and leadership development. Programs include aquatics, arts, sports, fitness and recreation, health and life skills, educational and career development, job training, career preparation, tutoring services, and age appropriate community service.

Outdoor activities, including Carter Lake Summer Camp (Mon-Fri 8 am-4 pm).

Meals served. Limited bus service - call for details.

Categories

Mentoring Programs
Tutoring Services
Team Sports/Leagues
Boys/Girls Clubs
Literacy Programs
Identifies, promotes, and supports early childhood interventions in order to reduce the achievement gap between lower and higher income students.