Do you want to get your high school equivalency diploma, but cannot travel to a class? The Adult Education and Workforce Development Division of the Erie 2-Chautauqua-Cattaraugus BOCES has the program for those interested in improving their professional prospects.

GRASP — the Giving Ready Adults a Study Program — is a home study program that prepares adult learners to pass the Test Assessing Secondary Completion (TASC) and earn their high school equivalency diploma. Instructional packets for students are delivered and returned to designated pick-up sites (for example, a BOCES center or school district) on a weekly basis.

You are eligible for GRASP if you are at least 21 years old, read above a ninth-grade level and are unable to attend our regularly scheduled classes due to lack of transportation, childcare, physical handicap or work schedule.

Participants’ future can begin after they take the Test for Adult Basic Education (a diagnostic test used to determine a person’s skill levels and aptitudes), meet the requirements and enroll.

For more information and to schedule a pre-testing appointment, eligibility verification and enrollment, call 484-9811. An instructor is available by phone on weekdays from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. for calls and questions.