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Learn
to Read receives $5K health literacy grant
St Augustine Record: 8.14.2017
Learn
to Read of St. Johns County
was awarded a one-year, $5,000 grant in July from Florida Blue
Foundation and the Florida
Literacy Coalition.
The
funds will be used to implement a health literacy program to benefit its
English for Speakers of other Languages (ESOL) classes.
The
program’s focus is to help students acquire the knowledge, literacy skills and
resources to help them navigate the medical system and make informed health
decisions.
Learn
to Read Executive Director Ann Breidenstein said the grant will help ESOL
students concentrate on the importance of nutrition for themselves and their
families.
“They
will plant and tend a vegetable garden, as well as learn healthy cooking
methods for their harvest,” Breidenstein said.
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One
Tutor, Two Students, Countless Benefits
Wilmington Biz: 8.15.2017 by Geneva Reid, Cape Fear Literacy Council
volunteer
When
we moved from Memphis to Wilmington 13 years ago, I was eager to locate the
Literacy Council and volunteer as a tutor.
I
had been inspired by a University of Memphis report revealing that one third of
the adult population in Memphis could not read at a functional level but I did
not volunteer there because we were planning to move. I did, however, volunteer
at Cape Fear Literacy Council the second week
we were in Wilmington.
“I
read the Bible in my church Sunday, and no one made fun of me.”
Back
in 2004, my very first student was an elderly grandmother who was a beginning
reader. She wanted to learn to read the Bible so she could read it aloud in her
church.
Working
together, we discovered a process that would enable her to achieve that goal.
For our one-on-one meetings, she would bring in her upcoming Sunday School
lesson, and we would spend part of each session learning to read the
appropriate Bible verses. READ MORE @
Cuyahoga
County, Cleveland libraries transform into community service, job training hubs
Cuyahoga Co Insider: 8.15.2017 by Karen Farkas
Residents
will be able to apply for food assistance, cash assistance and Medicaid at any
Cleveland and Cuyahoga County Public Library in a one-of-a-kind partnership
with county government announced Tuesday. Literacy experts will also be on hand
in every library to help people earn GEDs and gain jobs.
The
programs are the latest for the award-winning libraries, which have evolved
from institutions that lend materials to nerve centers of communities, aiming
to serve as convenient one-stop locations for families.
"Libraries
have transformed," Cuyahoga County Public Library Director Sari
Feldman said. "Collections are important, but it is more about what we do
for and with people in our community. If we do not recognize the role we play
-- education, employment, entrepreneurship, empowerment and engagement -- we
are destined to be like video stores and Radio Shack."
The
libraries all offer the ASPIRE
literacy program and benefits sign-up. They serve free
lunches and dinners from the Cleveland Food Bank and offer homework help for
kids. They offer English language instruction and help with citizenship,
computers.
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She
and Felton Thomas, executive director of the Cleveland Public Library, are working with
Cuyahoga County Executive Armond Budish on the partnership, which Budish said
enhances the county priorities of putting residents on a career path with a
family-sustaining wage and making county services more easily available.
"This
new collaboration brings county services into neighborhoods where people
live," he said.
The
library systems have or will provide three major services:
Adult
literacy, GED courses and skills to find jobs
Aspire
programs, formerly called ABLE, are offered through the Ohio
Department of Higher Education and provide free education services in reading,
math and tecnology [sic] -- all skills to be successful in post-secondary education
and advanced employment. READ MORE @
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