Program locations

LVM programs are located in the following communities and serve surrounding cities and towns. You are welcome to join the LVM program location most convenient to where you live or work [link each location below to the Contact Us section].

·        Athol

·        Boston

·        Boston (services to homeless adults through Project Lighthouse)

·        Fitchburg

·        Framingham

·        Lowell

·        Norwood

·        Pittsfield

·        Quincy

·        Southbridge

·        Stoughton

·        Worcester

 

LVM-Boston

Established in 1981, LVM-Boston provides basic literacy tutoring to adults in the greater Boston area.  LVM-Boston and Project Lighthouse coordinate their recruitment, orientations, trainings and ongoing support to matched volunteer tutors.  Professional support consists of monthly contact, personal meetings, in-service trainings, a quarterly newsletter, tutor socials and open house events and the annual Mardi Gras and Celebration of Literacy. 

For more information on LVM-Boston, please contact [link].

Project Lighthouse 

Established in 1989, Project Lighthouse is an LVM program specifically designed to provide tutoring in basic literacy and ESOL to homeless shelter guests in Boston.

Project Lighthouse is a partnership established by Literacy Volunteers of Massachusetts with the following shelters:   

• St. Francis House (Boston’s largest day shelter)
• Casa Myrna Vasquez (a battered women’s shelter)
• Asian Task Force Against Domestic Violence (a battered women’s shelter)
• Women’s Lunch Place (a day shelter)

For more information on Project Lighthouse, please contact [link]. 

Special projects

Each LVM program location trains volunteers to provide individualized tutoring instruction in basic literacy or ESOL.  Programs have also developed special projects and services.   

For more information about these specialties, please contact the LVM program location directly [link each location listed back to the Contact Us section].

Computer instruction 

• Computer self-study: Quincy, Stoughton

• One-to-one computer instruction:  Quincy        

ESOL

·        ESOL conversation groups and classes: Framingham, Pittsfield, Southbridge, Worcester 

·        Beginning ESOL computer instruction:  Pittsfield

·        Library orientation for ESOL high school students at risk for passing MCAS:  Quincy

·        Citizenship classes:  Norwood 

Family literacy

·        Books for Babies:  Orange/Athol 

Learning disabilities

• Kurzweil Reading Machine instruction for students:  Quincy

• Wilson Reading System training for tutors:  Quincy, Norwood   

Special populations

• Tutoring at corrections:  Framingham, Norwood, Pittsfield

• Tutoring homeless adults:  Framingham, Project Lighthouse, Quincy   

Special subjects or classes

·        Math tutoring: Quincy