Who We Are

Literacy United was created as a 501c3 entity in December of 2011, to provide high-quality supplemental education support offered through an entity outside of the public school system, especially reading assessment and intervention, to economically disadvantaged children in Tarrant County. Based on a shared understanding that Fort Worth area public schools have become increasingly burdened due to current economic pressures, teacher lay-offs, increasing class size, and incredibly high levels of teacher turn-over due to unmanageable working conditions, the Literacy United Board of Directors (Kary Johnson, President and Private Services representative; Sheryle Kuehl, Vice-President Public Education representative and Ana Cervera, Secretary and Community Representative) came together to form a much-needed new nonprofit entity. Thus, our desire as a board is to grow an entity that will provide much needed services that so often are not provided by schools. Since that time, Literacy United has expanded to include literacy programs for individuals of all ages and abilities in need of reading intervention.  Literacy United has served thousands of struggling readers. In 2023 alone, Literacy United served over 400 individuals and over 13,500 hours of reading therapy were administered by our highly trained reading specialist.