Empowered Literacy Center

Empowering People One Story at a Time

Alice-N-Wonderland ELC is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization

Our mission is to reduce trauma and distress in the life of Jacksonville residents who are living under highly stressful circumstances due to gang violence, domestic violence or the unexpected loss of a job, home or loved one.

Alice-N-Wonderland (ELC) aggressively advocates for literacy to further reduce economic challenges and public safety issues.

We will improve the quality of life of Jacksonville residents by providing a compilation of services which encourage self-sufficiency through literacy.

Crisis Support

We provide crisis support services to families and individuals who are living in crisis situations and lack the resources or knowledge to help themselves.

Empowered Literacy

We provide families and individuals opportunities to communicate their stories in their own words through written or verbal communications. We thereby empower them to meet the challenges in their lives and to write their own new chapters.

Community Support

We invite local authors and publishers to speak with our participants, providing inspiring and empowering examples for our young writers.

Alice-N-Wonderland Empowered Literacy Center

supports children 5 - 17 years old & Adults

Programming is on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 5:30 - 7:30pm

at the Mary Lena Gibbs Community Center

6974 Wilson Boulevard, Jacksonville, Florida 32210

Financial Literacy

GED Assistance

TABE Assistance

Write You Out (WYO)

Write You Out (WYO), a key component of our Empowered Literacy Program, is an innovative approach to literacy that is designed to help participants express themselves through creative writing, journaling and spoken words. WYO enables families and individuals to see themselves out of their current situations, and empowers them to create the "what next" that they desire for themselves. Participants have the opportunity to attend writer’s workshops, meet with authors and write and publish their own stories or poems. Through this process, participants change their perception of themselves and/or the approach they take to surviving a life crisis, helping them to live the life they imagine for themselves.

Through this process, WYO empowers families and individuals to meet both their present day and future challenges with intention and to write the chapters of their own lives.

Preschool Literacy

Emergent Literacy

"I attended the Positive Youth Development Program (PYDP) that was given by Dr. Nathea Watts for 3 years. At the time I was a latchkey kid because my mother had to work. Since I was a latchkey kid, I was considered a youth subject to risk taking behaviors, such as becoming involved in the criminal justice system, teen pregnancy to name a few.

Throughout the program I was engaged in activities to help promote healthy social and personal development skills.

Because of Dr. Nathea I was able to avoid risk-taking behaviors. Today, I am involved with the criminal justice system." - K. S. Hutchinson “Esq”

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