The Lompoc Record announced the August 5 conference in Solvang of the Workforce Development and Literacy Initiative (WALI), a multi-partner initiative to increase literacy and degree/certificate attainment. Among those partners is the Santa Barbara County Workforce Investment Board. Story: http://www.lompocrecord.com/news/local/national-night-out-tonight/article_f15de218-b57a-5b03-9162-fa1de5bdf087.html
Afterward, it followed up. Collaboration was a common theme at the conference. "Santa Barbara County has 76,000 illiterate folks and it is estimated that more than half of those folks reside in northern Santa Barbara County," said Laura Arteaga Davidson, director of the Central Coast Literacy Council. "It takes many folks to collaborate because we are facing an epidemic in our own community." Story: http://www.lompocrecord.com/syvnews/news/local/literacy-initiatives-launched-at-solvang-event/article_dda8a3f9-a5b8-5104-b312-a3f61a6019b9.html
