Milwaukee Achiever Literacy Services
ADULT LITERACY AND WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT

Milwaukee Achiever Literacy Services has a twenty-three-year history in the Milwaukee community. It was founded in 1983, when Alverno, Cardinal Stritch, and Mount Mary Colleges responded to a 1982 needs assessment called “Milwaukee 2000,” which found one of every six Milwaukee residents to be functionally illiterate, meaning that they had insufficient skills for obtaining information from the written word. Today, one of every five Milwaukee residents is considered functionally illiterate.

To date, Milwaukee Achiever Literacy Services has successfully served over 10,000 highly motivated adults who have come to us because they identify education as the key to lift themselves out of poverty and begin a self-directed, productive life. Approximately 650 adult learners annually seek our services at one of our neighborhood centers. Milwaukee Achiever Literacy Services does no formal advertising; yet the demand for our services continues to increase. The on-going waiting list of approximately 100 adult learners gives credence to the need for Milwaukee Achiever Literacy Services here in the heart of the Milwaukee community.