Foundations Community Partnership’s BIIG grants are offered on a competitive basis to non-profit human services organizations providing services to children and youth in Bucks County. BIIG grants of $82,500 were awarded this year to 10 eligible grant applicants who will be developing innovative ideas and improving the quality of life for children, youth, and families in Bucks County. 

“We are grateful to Foundations Community Partnership for its generous contribution,” said Linda Wolfson, Executive Director of Vita.  “This grant will be invaluable in helping us to move forward with our Decisions for Teens program.”  [Read more...]

Doylestown, PA – June. 18, 2010 – Today we are pleased to announce the launch of our totally redesigned website www.vitaeducation.org, a web portal devoted to Vita’s literacy and decision-making programs. This product is the result of six months of synchronized hard work done by our team in analyzing and designing the concept. As the lead literacy agency in Bucks County and the largest provider of educational services in the Bucks County Correctional Facility, our mission is to provide quality educational programs that help improve individuals’ lives and become more self-determining and self-sufficient. The goal of our new website is to engage the community in Vita’s mission and needs and to provide information about Vita’s vital services and programs.

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Doylestown, PA – April 7, 2010 – Vita Education Services offers free instruction in the community and at the Bucks County Correctional Facilities to prepare adults to function effectively in their roles as family members, employees and citizens. Our programs are designed to improve skills in basic reading, writing, math, GED and High School Diploma preparation, English as a Second Language and decision-making. To augment our classes, accommodate different level students, and intensify the learning experience, Vita offers many new and exciting programs involving both staff and tutors. [Read more...]

Doylestown, PA – Feb. 1, 2010 – The Comcast Foundation has awarded a $30,000 grant to Vita Education Services to support its Resources for Results initiative. Resources for Results provides educational materials for students enrolled in Vita’s free literacy programs. The grant will support Vita’s programs in basic literacy, GED preparation, English as a Second Language and Family Literacy by providing materials such as student texts, workbooks, and dictionaries.

“We are grateful to Comcast for its generous contribution,” said Linda Wolfson, Executive Director of Vita. “Our students’ learning will be greatly enhanced through the grant from The Comcast Foundation. It will enable us to purchase quality materials to support contextualized instruction, which places emphasis on skill improvement within the context of employment, parent education and citizenship.”
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Doylestown, PA – August 12, 2009 – Linda Wolfson has been appointed the new executive director of Vita Education Services. Fran Stengel, who had been the executive director since 1977, retired as of July 1, 2009. Linda has been with Vita for 15 years, first as Director of the Literacy Center, then Director of Programs. She will be responsible for the overall management, vision, direction, efficient operation, planning, budgeting, communications, compliance and staff development for the agency. Vita Education Services is the lead literacy agency in Bucks County and the largest provider of educational services in the Bucks County Correctional Facilities.

Doylestown, PA – May 7, 2009 – Vita Education Services’ Language Experience Approach DVD is now available worldwide. The Language Experience Approach is a 60 minute instructional video that defines and demonstrates the variety of activities an English as a Second Language (ESL) or a Literacy tutor can do with a student under the technique called language experience. The video begins with an introduction defining the technique, its purpose, its value, and the target audience for whom it is intended. Following are six student segments, composed of three ESL and three Literacy students, at varying levels. Each student segment is divided into two parts representing two sessions with the student. In the first part, the student and tutor are seen creating a learner-generated story. In the second part, the student and tutor are engaged in extension activities that have been created from the story. The content of the second session is based on meaningful language activities created by the tutor to help further the goals of the student. A clip from the Language Experience Approach video and a link to purchase the DVD are available on Vita’s website at www.vitaeducation.org.