Sunday, February 18, 2018

Literacy – Spanning the US :: Pearl River Co MS :: Green Bay WI :: Milwaukee WI :: Albany NY


Literacy: Spanning the U.S.     

Library uses donation to start a special collection
Picayune Item: 12.27.2017 by Mrudvi Bakshi

The Margaret Reed Crosby Memorial Library recently received a $500 donation from Pearl River County resident Robert Woodyard in memory of his late wife Mary Ann Woodyard.

The funds were used by the library to create a special collection of fiction and non-fiction books that can be easily read by mentally challenged adults in the community.

Mary Ann dedicated her life to education, teaching in various capacities at several schools in Pearl River County.

Carol Phares, director of the Pearl River County Library System, said the Woodyards were inseparable and after her passing Robert wanted to do something to memorialize her influence to the community as a teacher.

The library used the donation to establish an easy to read book collection now named the “Dr.Mary Ann Woodyard née Baker Adult Literacy Collection.”
=Phares said the collection consists of high interest books written on a first to third grade level so they can be easily comprehended.  READ MORE >>

Doing the Right Thing: Literacy Green Bay
WFRV: 12.22.2017 by Millaine Wells

You do not have to be a teacher to help people learn.

In fact, Literacy Green Bay is in need of dozens of volunteers to help people perfect their reading and writing skills.

Local five's Millaine Wells shows us the impact it can make.  WATCH VIDEO

Folks in need blanketed with warmth at Repairers of the Breach
FOX6: 12.30.2017 by Derica Williams

Whipping winds and frosty temperatures are making for dangerously cold conditions outside, and folks in need of warmth are being blanketed with gear and you can help give them a reprieve. Winter basics that seem like a luxury for some.

"Coats, hats, scarfs, gloves, thermal gear, thermal socks, mittens," Ralpheal Gordon with Repairers of the Breach listed off.

"It's very cold," Laticea King said.

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They provide emergency shelter in these frigid temps while also giving people access to services.

"We are open from 8:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m.," Gordon said. "Our employment assistance program which is designed to help people who are looking for a job or who just got one and haven't got their first paycheck we had a program that's designed to give them bus fare bus passes. We also have a learning center that helps with adult literacy. We are stating a health literacy class and financial literacy. WATCH VIDEO

Reading mends sundered families
While incarcerated, prisoners record their words for children to hear
Times Union: 12.31.2017 by Madison Iszler

Of the myriad effects a parent's incarceration can have on his or her child, strained communication is one of the most devastating: trying to keep in touch through brief visits, letters and phone calls that can't replace the presence of a mother or father is challenging.

Several doctoral students at the University at Albany are trying to help preserve the connection between a parent and a child when the former goes to prison — through reading.

Through "Reading for Change," a program offered at the Albany County jail, a participating inmate selects a book to read to their child and is recorded reading the book out loud in a soundproof room. The CD recording and the book are then mailed to their child. Book titles are preselected and encompass a range of age groups.

"We want to mitigate some of the unintended consequences incarceration has on people other than the inmates," said Tyler Bellick, a doctoral student at UAlbany involved in the project. "This is a way to foster an attachment between a parent and their child."  READ MORE >>


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