Stanislaus Literacy Center Reading Lab

What initially was created to help local cannery workers, has blossomed into a community based organization offering assistance in adult literacy, GED preparation, family literacy, English as a second language, and jail education.

History of LQ
1987
Tri-Valley Growers cannery realizes a need for literacy and Volunteer Center responds with a literacy program provided on site which becomes community based as well using volunteers to tutor.

1989
A literacy program is brought to the Stanislaus County Jail .

1995
Volunteer Center is absorbed into United Way and Stanislaus Literacy Center takes over the non-profit of Volunteer Center and changes its name and mission and continues to provide literacy tutoring.

1996
Karen Williams becomes the first Executive Director of Stanislaus Literacy Center.

1998
The first family literacy and English as a Second Language program is launched at Wakefield Elementary in Turlock.

1999
A partnership with Community Services Agency is formed to provide literacy and pre-GED services for customers on Welfare to Work grants. This leads to 17 years of expansion of services to include GED (now known as High School Equivalency) preparation in five locations and Adult Basic Education in one location.

2001
A partnership with Stanislaus County Library is birthed and LQ begins to operate literacy programs in the library under the name ReadingWorks.

2013
The organization undergoes a move to a larger facility and a name change to LearningQuest (LQ).