Research/Report
Author(s): Christine Piven, Philadelphia Business & Technology Center
Philadelphia has three WIOA Title II organizations, 35 (and growing) non-profit providers who offer adult education assessments and classes, a local workforce board, and a municipal government office to support adult education. In the mid-2000s, learners would have needed to locate any of these providers on their own. In 2014, the City of Philadelphia launched myPLACE (my Philadelphia Literacy and Adult Career Education), which offered residents centralized access to education and career development services through community-based partner programs. By 2020, the basic framework of myPLACE remained, but with the move to more virtual options during COVID-19 as well as the shrinking of the City’s adult education office, there needed to be other ways to strengthen the system of connecting residents to adult education resources.