March 26, 2026

• Friendship/Community Orgs

  Literacy West NY Offers Free Adult Education, Runs Youth Programs in Friendship Schools

  Literacy West NY, Inc., a nonprofit that has served rural Western New York since 1986, held a free public workshop at its CORE The Learning Center site in Belmont to showcase its no-cost adult education, GED prep, OSHA safety training, digital literacy and job-search support. Separately from its adult programming, the organization directly partners with Friendship Central School to run Extended School Day enrichment activities, such as theatre, art, dance and STEM, for students in grades 6-12, alongside a School Violence Prevention program offering crisis counseling and support groups for K-12 students. Literacy West also partners with Belfast and Fillmore school districts on similar programming. The group's leaders describe the effort as part of nearly four decades of community-based work across Allegany and Cattaraugus counties.

  March 26, 2026·THE WELLSVILLE SUN→