Workplace Basic Skills is a program to improve the literacy skills needed to perform a job and at least partly under the auspices of an employer. Although some programs are offered in specialized workplace labs on college campuses, most of them are offered at the worksite. Family Literacy is a program with a literacy component for parents and children or other intergenerational literacy components. Forty-two community colleges also conduct adult high school classes and award an Adult High School Diploma in cooperation with local public schools. Students are taught by instructors using a variety of methods and materials.
Training is available for instructors at statewide conferences and local workshops.
Compensatory Education, a program designed for adults with mental retardation or traumatic brain injury, serves approximately 6,000 students annually. There must be appropriate documentation providing evidence of formal diagnosis of the mentally handicapping condition. This condition must be determined and certified by a qualified professional, such as a physician, psychiatrist, psychologist, etc. Each college receives a special allocation from the state to hire a Compensatory Education Coordinator to oversee the program. Other funding for the program comes from state and federal Basic Skills funds.