Our Mission Statement:

Our mission is to provide opportunities for adults and children to achieve their intellectual, social, and economic potential. We do this by providing instruction in those skills adults and children need to set and attain their lifetime goals.  These skills include:

• Goal Setting
• Reading Effectively
• Writing Effectively
• Speaking Effectively
• Using Math to Solve Problems
• Career Planning
• Job Ready Computer Skills

Our mission is also to provide opportunities for adults and children to learn the information they need to be well-informed citizens of the world.

Vision Statement:

At the Literacy Council of Mercer County, Inc. we value....

• The unique gifts and strengths with which each individual is endowed.
• Literacy for everyone so that they can read, write, compute, and use a keyboard to the degree they need in order to meet their lifetime goals.
• Respect for all of our clients to the degree that we accept them exactly as they are and treat everyone with the dignity all human beings deserve.
• An optimistic view of our work that expresses itself as confidence in our agency, our clients, and ourselves.