Lutheran Children and Family Service

Adult Education

The Adult Education Program at LCFS serves refugees and immigrants in Northeast Philadelphia, West Philadelphia, and Upper Darby. Many of the students we serve are recently arrived immigrants and refugees. We also serve immigrants who are senior citizens at two locations. We offer ESL and GED courses, Driver's License interpretation assistance and Fair Housing Trainings sessions. We always need volunteers to share their time and talents with this underserved portion of the population, and there's a link below for our volunteer application if you're interested.

For more information about our program, please contact Todd Miller, Adult Education Coordinator, at 215-747-7500, extension 257, or via email at toddm@licfsinpa.org.

Driver's License Interpretation Program
Fair Housing Trainings

Driver's License Interpretation Program

Lutheran Children and Family Service is on a list of agencies permitted by the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) to provide interpretation for immigrants taking the Pennsylvania Driver's Test.

We currently provide interpretation for the following languages:

African Creole
Albanian
Amheric
Arabic
Bengali
Burmese
Chinese (Mandarin)
French
Fulani
Haitian Creole
Hindi
Krahn
Mandingo
Russian
Urdu

To prepare for a PA Driver's License Test, please do the following:

Go to the nearest PennDOT location to get a PA Driver's Manual or download this manual from http://www.dmv.state.pa.us/drivers_manual/pa_driversman.shtml. This manual contains all information covered on the test.
Study the manual. Our interpreters will not provide answers, so it is not possible to pass the test without studying!
Make sure that you have completed your physical and have all necessary documents. For information on required documents, listed by immigration status, click here.
Contact Althea Norton at our office (215-747-7500 Ext. 231) to request service.
You will be connected with an interpreter.
You must then come to our office to take a practice test in your native language.
If you pass the practice test, you will pay $95 (money order or check) and be given a letter that allows you and your interpeter to go to PennDOT and take the Driver's exam.

Fair Housing Trainings

Let your clients and staff know about their housing rights!

U.S. Law prohibits landlords, realtors, and mortgage companies from discriminating based on any of the following:

race;
religion;
national origin;
gender;
disability;
having children.

Unfortunately, housing discrimination is still common, and with some populations the problem appears to be on the rise.

The Adult Education program at LCFS, in collaboration with the Fair Housing Council of Suburban Philadelphia, is working to promote greater understanding of housing discrimination law in Southeast Pennsylvania.

We can provide a free one-hour training for staff at your agency, so they can be informed when relating to clients about their housing needs.

In addition, we can provide free trainings, ranging in length from 1 - 2.5 hours, in community ESL, GED, ABE classes at your locations.

These trainings allow participants to recognize housing discrimination to learn about free legal help in cases where their legal rights are being violated.

In addition, the training can be designed to briefly discuss any of the following:

finding housing;
reading and understanding a lease;
legal rights of people being evicted.

To schedule a Fair Housing Training, please contact Todd Miller at 215-747-7500, extension 257, or via email at toddm@lcfsinpa.org.