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DocuSign Envelope ID: DDOCF1362 -8EDD- 41357- ACF6- 9C98BO78AA95 XHIBIT A <br />PROVIDER'S OUTSIDE AGENCY APPLICATION <br />agencies including DSS Work First staff, NC Department Commerce - <br />Employment Security Division, Joint Orange Chatham Community Action <br />Agency, Vocational Rehabilitation, Good Work, and Disabilities Awareness <br />Council. <br />• We work closely with Adult Basic Education (ABE), GED and ESOL instructors <br />from Durham Technical Community College and Alamance Community <br />College. We provide tutors for students who need individual assistance at <br />DTCC's Skills Development Center site as well as other sites across the county. <br />We also work similarly with ACC for students in northern Orange who choose to <br />go to this school. <br />• We receive client referrals and self - referrals from human services agencies <br />including: Freedom House, Community House, Project HomeStart, Orange <br />County Health Department, Orange County Mental Health, Horizons, IFC, <br />Chapel Hill Housing Authority, Chapel Hill Carrboro Schools, Orange <br />County Schools, El Centro Hispano, Church World Service <br />• A number of area churches, organizations, agencies and businesses provide free <br />space for Orange Literacy programs. These include: Orange County Public <br />Library, Carrboro Branch Library, Chapel Hill Public Library, UNC -CH, the <br />Karen Center of NC and Aldersgate United Methodist Church <br />We hold on -going classes at: Robert and Pearl Seymour Senior Center and <br />the Chapel Hill Public Library <br />• Orange Literacy works with Project Literacy students (a UNC Campus Y <br />program) to tutor University employees, work with ESOL students and volunteer <br />in the Creative Writing Program at the InterFaith Council's men's and women's <br />shelters. <br />• Orange Literacy sources AmeriCorps Members from the Student Coalition for <br />Action in Student Education (SCALE) at UNC's School of Education. <br />• With funding from the Orange County Partnership for Young Children, <br />Orange Literacy works in partnership with El Centro Hispano to provide a <br />comprehensive family literacy program, with instruction for both parents and <br />their pre - school children. <br />• Orange Literacy is an active participant in the Orange County Family Success <br />Alliance Collaborative (FSA). We provide literacy instruction to parents and <br />other caregivers, targeting the curriculum to skills and content necessary to help <br />them work with their children to build both their own and their child's literacy <br />skills. Further, Orange Literacy's Executive Director is a member of the Family <br />Success Alliance Advisory Council. <br />• Orange Literacy is also a member of the United Way of the Greater Triangle - <br />funded Making Connections Collaborative, focused on early childhood <br />education throughout the county. As with the FSA, we provide literacy <br />instruction to parents and other caregivers, targeting the curriculum to skills and <br />content necessary to help them work with their children to build both their own <br />and their child's literacy skills. <br />• In collaboration with Church World Service, Orange Literacy has received a <br />grant from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) to provide <br />citizenship instruction in Orange, Durham and Alamance Counties. In Orange <br />County, we are currently holding classes in conjunction with the Orange <br />County Public Library, the Refugee Support Center and the Chapel Hill <br />Public Library. Each of these partners provides space and assistance in <br />PROGRAM INFORMATION 1/31/2017 10:54:56 AM Page 9 of 26 <br />