Education

SEACMA provides a variety of classes and workshops to support youth, elders and members of our community. Our workshops are offered on a rolling basis.

To register for a class or to learn more about our programs, please email us at info@seacma.org or call (508) 791-4373.

English second language (esl) classes

Classes are taught by Brenda Seymour, a teacher with a Master’s Degree in ESL Education and with over 30 years of teaching experience. The classes are held every Tuesday and Wednesday from 9:00 am - 12:00 pm. The curriculum focuses on reading, writing and pronunciation at all levels for those seeking to improve their English fluency. Outside of this, we also aim to help our students advance in their careers by developing confidence within their English ability, social communication and management skills that extend beyond the classroom.

family literacy

SEACMA hosts various workshops under Family Literacy to help families overcome inter-generational cycles of illiteracy and poverty by providing early childhood education, adult literacy, and parenting education in a unified program. We hope that, in this program, we’re able to build upon the strengths already present but also address the needs present between parents/primary caregivers and their young children.

BILITERACY PROGRAM

Although SEACMA’s main mission is to foster success for immigrants as well as help them smoothly naturalize, this doesn’t mean that we don’t celebrate and encourage the embracing of one’s cultural identity. We offer language classes in Vietnamese, Chinese and Nepali. Southeast Asian culture and language courses are richly beneficial to the younger generation who were born in the United States and weren’t as exposed to their mother tongue.