Using a curriculum based on life skills, ELM prepares students to read traffic signs and employment applications, write notes to teachers, and speak with doctors and other health care professionals.  Many students are motivated to attend ELM classes by their desire to read to their children or read the Bible.  A majority of ELM students are Hispanic, but some are immigrants from Korea, Congo, and other countries.

Literacy tutors at ELM have changed the lives of more than 2,500 women and their children in East Dallas since 1994.  ELM continuously seeks volunteer tutors  (you do not have to speak any other language to tutor!) to teach one morning per week, as well as volunteers to assist with the computer lab or office projects that enable the organization to run more efficiently.

ELM was founded by churches in the East Dallas Christian Parish with the belief that a mother’s literacy is the single greatest indicator of her child’s achievement. NorthPark Presbyterian Church supports ELM with volunteers and grants.