Funding Source: New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development
- Project: Consolidated Adult Basic Skills & Integrated English Language and Civics Education
- Amount: $366,000
- Project Period: 7/1/16 – 6/30/17
- Purpose: The purpose of the grant, operated by the Ciarco Learning Center in Hackensack, is to provide adult education and literacy services to assist adults to become literate and obtain the knowledge and skills necessary for employment and self-sufficiency; to assist adults who are parents to obtain the skills necessary to become partners in the education of their children; and to assist adults in the completion of a secondary school education.
- Project Director: Elizabeth Gieske DeFeo, edefeo@bergen.edu, (201)879-9672