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Education contextualized at the work site! July, 2010

The Learn at Work Program, Workplace Education 3 -year initiative is designed to promote public-private partnerships across industries throughout the Commonwealth that specifically focus on workplace Basic Skills and English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL). Classes are taught at the work site and the curriculum is contextualized to meet the need of the worker/student, the business and the labor union where the workforce is unionized.

Funding for the Learn at Work initiative came from a mix of ESE/ACLS, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) and state funding. Below are the 11 education providers and their partners:

1. Asian American Civic Association and South Cove Manor Community Health Center (Boston)
2. Community Learning Center and the Cambridge Health Alliance and Youville Hospital (Cambridge and Medford)
3. Jewish Vocational Service and the Partners Health Care, Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, North Shore Medical Center, Faulkner Hospital (Boston and Salem)
4. La Alianza Hispana and the Morgan Memorial Goodwill Industries (Boston)
5. Quincy Asian Resources, Inc. and the Morning Sun Bus Company, Kam Man Food (Quincy and Rockland)
6. Russian Community Association and Traditional Breads, Inc. (Lynn)
7. University of Massachusetts Amherst Labor Management Workplace Education and Early Childhood Centers of Greater Springfield, New North Citizen's Council Childcare, New Beginnings (Springfield)
8. University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Worker Education Program and the Stop and Shop distribution center and the Teamsters (Assonet)
9. University of Massachusetts Memorial Health Care and Mt Wachusetts Community College (Worcester)
10. Worker Education Program and the Wrentham Developmental Center, (Carver)
11. 1199 Training and Upgrade Fund and Sunbridge Health Care (Saugus and Wakefield)

For any questions about the Learn at Work Initiative, please contact Olivia Steele at osteele@doe.mass.edu or at (781) 338-3858