Provides adult learners with the opportunity to improve English grammar and vocabulary skills. Offers basic and intermediate English As a Second Language classes. ESL classes are free. They are held on Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 9:30am to 11:30am at the Wilson Avenue House in Blacksburg (404 Wilson Avenue, beside Harding Avenue Elementary School.)

Provides short-term maintenance payments for indigent refugees.

Offers publications regarding the development and practices of interpreters for the deaf.

Beginning-level English classes teach the foundation skills adult English language learners (ELLs) need to learn to speak, understand, read, and write English. Offered at several locations through the region, classes are held at least two nights a week for two hour class sessions and are closed enrollment. The curriculum focuses on American culture and life skills important to the workplace, community, and family, which includes an introduction to technology through blended learning.

Provides special services for refugees. Requires official refugee status. Provides short-term maintenance payments for indigent refugees.

The center provides a comprehensive range of services tailored to the specific needs of the community, including food, clothing, addiction recovery support, computer training, educational programs, health clinics, job training/placement, legal aid, ESL classes, life skills, and parenting classes.

Affordable legal assistance for those dealing with federal immigration authorities. Services include assistance with applying for family reunification, permanent residency, citizenship, employment authorization, special visas and more. Bilingual staff members, who are accredited by the Department of Justice (DOJ), offer immigration advice and assistance in completing immigration forms. Immigration Counselors provide assistance with completion of necessary paperwork and ensure adherence to required procedures, assisting people in maintaining and/or securing appropriate legal documents.

Middle Peninsula Regional Adult Continuing Education provides instruction to adults to improve basic academic skills (reading, writing, and math), GED Preparation (for high school equivalency) and ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages). Middle Peninsula Regional Adult & Career Education (R.A.C.E.) is a Consortium made up of the public school systems in the counties of Essex, Gloucester, King & Queen, King William, Mathews, and Middlesex, and the Town of West Point. It is one of the 22 Federal and State funded adult basic education programs serving the Commonwealth of Virginia.

Project Literacy offers free, confidential tutoring to adults in reading, writing, English-speaking, math, and basic technology skills. Also sponsor book clubs where particpants learn strategies for better reading comprehension.

Refugee Resettlement Services include orientation, employment, case management, English as a Second Language classes, school liaison services and housing.

Regional program that provides the following adult education: GED Classes GED Testing Literacy Classes ESL Classes Community Betterment If interested in taking the GED exam contact the following: Washington County (Abingdon, VA) 276-619-4300 or 1-800-322-7748 Wythe County Test Center: 276-223-4707

The Immigration Services program provides affordable legal assistance for those dealing with federal immigration authorities. Services including assistance with applying for family reunification, permanent residency or citizenship, employment authorization, special visas and more. Bilingual staff is accredited by the Department of Justice.

Group instruction and computer-based training for foreign-born individuals. Open entry and exit.

The Progreso Center for Literacy & Citizenship is a community development and advocacy program that seeks to serve and empower immigrants to improve the quality of their lives and of their communities through education, immigration services, and leadership development.

Offers interpretation and translation to persons speaking Ethiopian languages. Provides translation of legal papers, including asylum, and interpretation for legal, school and medical issues.

Provides immigration legal services to low-income immigrants and refugees by staff attorneys and volunteers. Serves all faiths and nationalities. Offers educational programs for groups and churches on immigrant issues.

Conversational English Classes are held at the Y Center and provides English Language Learners (ELL) the opportunity to practice and learn English. These classes are free of charge and provide free childcare. For a complete schedule of our classes, please call 540-961-9622.

Provides and coordinates volunteer literacy services for educationally disadvantaged adults in the Central Shenandoah Valley. Provides tutors for ABE, ESL, and GED adult students and those who wish to improve basic reading and writing skills or prepare for U.S. Citizenship. Tutors are free.

The Refugee Resettlement program welcomes refugees, empowering people escaping persecution to begin new lives with dignity through early self-sufficiency. CCC strives to help these newcomers as they transition into our society while also fostering a community climate of acceptance for persons of different cultures. Services include orientation, employment, case management, English as a Second Language classes, school liaison services, medical liaison services and housing.

Legal Aid Justice Center partner with local community members and community organizations in addition to national advocacy organizations to promote systemic reforms reducing the abuse and exploitation of immigrants, and to advocate for policies that promote integration and protection of immigrant communities.

The Migrant Program is especially designed to provide continuity in the child's education. The program is held for six weeks during the summer and provides essential learning skills, food, and medical care for the children of migrant workers. Sessions of arts, crafts, and vocational instruction are offered, dependent upon funding. The children are given 3 meals a day as well as the opportunity to bathe and brush their teeth. There is a bilingual program for those students whose first language is Spanish or French Creole (Haitian).

Refugees may receive cash assistance and medical assistance up to 8 months following entrance.

Provides short-term maintenance payments for indigent refugees.

Offers a variety of adult educational opportunities/programs to non-residents and residents of Chesapeake. Program includes adult basic education, English as a second language, adult continuing education, and individual student alternative education.

ESL program for foreign born adults. Develop English language skills and understanding of American life, government, history, and culture.