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Adult and Community Learning Services

Community Planning

Purposes of Community Planning

The Adult Basic Education (ABE) Community Planning initiative supports Department of Elementary and Secondary Education funded adult education programs in developing and sustaining local ABE Community Planning Partnerships. ABE Community Planning Partnerships are encouraged to include every organization in the community with an interest in providing educational and support services to undereducated and/or limited English proficient adults and their families. The purposes of ABE Community Planning are that:

• The needs of all undereducated and/or limited English proficient constituencies are accounted for and that strategic plans are developed to identify how and when every such constituency will ultimately be served.

• Every organization with an interest in and the potential for supporting services to these populations is included in such planning, and that protocols are established to coordinate these services.

• Students benefit from the broadest possible array of educational, employment and training, and health and human services available and which so many adults need in order to successfully pursue their goals and aspirations.

• Adult Basic Education takes its place as a key ingredient in each organization's, community's, and region's plan to improve the quality of life for its citizenry.

Community Planning Policy

Guidelines for Effective ABE Community Planning in Massachusetts (updated September 2007)

Documents

	Community Planning Reporting Template
	FY2008 Community Planning Expectations Note: Copies of FY07, 06, 05 Expectations are available by contacting Anne Holbrook at aholbrook@doe.mass.edu.

Resources

Community Partnerships for Adult Learning (C-PAL)

Community Tool Box

Regional LMI Profile Series: Labor Market Information Profiles

System for Adult Basic Education Support