Deadline: 15-Feb-22
The Oklahoma Department of Career & Technology Education Adult Basic Education Division has announced the Integrated English Literacy and Civics (IELCE) Education Program to provide education services to English language learners who are adults, including professionals with degrees and credentials in their native countries that enable such adults to achieve competency in the English language and acquire the basic and more advanced skills needed to function effectively as parents, workers, and citizens in the United States.
Such services must include instruction in literacy and English language acquisition and instruction on the rights and responsibilities of citizenship and civic participation and may include workforce training.
Each IELCE participant must have the option of participating in an IET. The funds provided under section 243 of the Act must be used in combination with integrated education and training.
Eligible providers receiving funds through the Integrated English Literacy and Civics Education program must provide services that are designed to:
- Prepare adults who are English language learners for, and place such adults in, unsubsidized employment in in-demand industries and occupations that lead to economic self-sufficiency; AND
- Integrate with the local workforce development system and its functions to carry out the activities of the program.
Duration
The grant period will begin July 1, 2022. The award cycle for all grants will be for four years. Awards will be given for program years 2022-2023, 2023-2024, 2024-2025 and 2025-2026.
Eligible Activities
The eligible provider receiving a grant shall use the funds to establish or operate programs that provide adult education and family literacy activities, including programs that provide such activities concurrently. Below are the defined activities:
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Adult Education: Academic instruction and education services below the postsecondary level that increase an individual’s ability to do the following:
- Read, write, and speak in English and perform mathematics or other activities necessary for the attainment of a secondary school diploma or its recognized equivalent.
- Transition to postsecondary education and training.
- Obtain employment.
- Adult Education and Literacy Activities: Programs, activities and services that include adult education; literacy; workplace adult education and literacy activities; family literacy activities; English language acquisitionactivities; integrated English literacy and civics education; workforce preparation activities; or integrated education and training.
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English Language Acquisition Program: A program of instruction that meets the following criteria:
- Is designed to help eligible individuals who are English language learners achieve competence in reading, writing, speaking, and comprehending the English language.
- Leads to attainment of a secondary school diploma or its recognized equivalent, and transition to postsecondary education and training or employment.
- English Language Learner: An eligible individual who has limited ability in reading, writing, speaking, or comprehending the English language and whose native language is a language other than English; or who lives in a family or community environment where a language other than English is the dominant language.
- Family Literacy Activities: Activities that are of sufficient intensity and quality to make sustainable improvements in the economic prospects for a family.
- Integrated English Literacy and Civics Education: Education services provided to adult English language learners, including professionals with degrees and credentials in their native countries, that enable them to achieve competency in the English language and acquire basic and advanced skills needed to function effectively as parents, workers, and citizens of the United States. Such services shall include instruction in literacy and English language acquisition and instruction on the rights and responsibilities of citizenship and civic participation and may include workforce training.
- Integrated Education and Training: A service approach that provides adult education and literacy activities concurrently and contextually with workforce preparation activities and workforce training for a specific occupation or occupational cluster for the purpose of educational and career advancement.
- Literacy: An individual’s ability to read, write and speak in English, compute, and solve problems at levels of proficiency necessary to function on the job, in the family and in society.
- Workplace Adult Education and Literacy Activities: Adult education and literacy activities that are offered by an eligible provider in collaboration with an employer or employee organization at a workplace or an off-site location and that are designed to improve the productivity of the workforce.
- Workforce Preparation Activities: Activities, programs or services designed to help an individual acquire a combination of basic academic skills, critical thinking skills, digital literacy skills and self-management skills, including how to use resources and information, work with others, understand systems and obtain skills necessary for successful transition into and completion of postsecondary education or training or employment.
Eligibility Criteria
- Your organization must be considered an eligible provider to receive federal Adult Basic Education funding.
- An eligible provider means an organization that has demonstrated effectiveness in providing adult education and literacy activities.
- Effectiveness is demonstrated by providing two years of past performance data that show skills improvement.
- Providers outside of the Oklahoma are not eligible for the grant.
For more information, visit Department of Career & Technology.
For more information, visit https://oklahoma.gov/careertech/educators/adult-basic-education/grant-competitions/integrated-english-literacy-civics-education.html