Literacy: Spanning the US
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Literacy
Volunteers Of Chautauqua County To Expand Services In City
Post
Journal: 7.18.2019
Literacy Volunteers of Chautauqua County
is expanding adult literacy services to the city of Jamestown.
The
expansion focuses on the development of a substantial tutor base so that
Jamestown residents can receive specialized, one-on-one tutoring with trained
volunteers.
Literacy
Volunteers works to provide basic education to those who need to advance their
reading, writing and math skills to obtain their professional and personal
goals. Assistance is also provided to those who don’t speak or understand
English, along with adults who are “functionally illiterate,” meaning they
can’t read or write above a fifth-grade level.
Jamestown,
along with having the highest poverty rate in the county, also has the largest
amount of the above populations in the county, according to Literacy Volunteers
of Chautauqua County. READ
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LVKC
Celebrates 40 Years Of Free Literacy Training
Warwick
Online: 7.16.2019 by Tara Monastesse
The
Literacy
Volunteers of Kent County (LVKC) program is poised to enter its 40th year
of providing free, one-on-one literacy training to English language learners.
As
a non-profit organization, LVKC educates Basic Literacy and ESL (English as
second language) students using tutors on a volunteer basis and is funded
entirely by community grants and donations. This fall, the program’s bi-annual
training workshop will once again prepare volunteers to serve in tutor-student
pairs, which will target the needs and goals of each individual language
learner.
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In
addition to learning basic vocabulary, the alphabet and math skills, students
are also introduced to American culture and encouraged to build their
conversation skills with their tutors. Beyond just being teachers and students,
the literacy pairs often form friendships that allow both participants to learn
and grow beyond their own cultures.
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“Literacy
empowers a person,” said Youmi Kim, Program Director of LVKC. Originally from
South Korea, Kim speaks English as a second language and has lived in America
for five years. She has served as Program Director for two years, starting in
June of 2017, and empathizes with the difficulty of transitioning to an entirely
new culture. READ
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The
Need For Literacy Efforts Remains - Farmville
Farmville
Herald: 7.16.2019
Rebecca
Sturgill remembers when she worked with the Volunteers in Concert to Obtain
Reading Skills (VICTORS) program in the early 1990s.
The
program worked with locals in need of developing or strengthening their reading
skills.
“We
did everything from low-level reading through the GED,” Sturgill recalled
recently. Before she stepped away, several employers and some organizations
made plans for tutors to work with their employees.
And
then — “and then it disappeared,” she said.
Like
VICTORS, other literacy efforts have come and gone through the years.
It
is an ebb and flow that continues to play out, the consistency being the need —
and the willingness of residents to rise and fill that need, said Lonnie
Calhoun, who is helping create the newest literacy program in the county.
STEPS and the Prince Edward County Literacy Council
are looking to re-establish or strengthen local adult basic education, English
as a second language, and family literacy efforts. A litany of community
organizations and groups have offered support to the endeavor.
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The
Barbara Rose Johns
Farmville-Prince Edward Community Library will house the tutoring sessions
and will also offer computer instruction. An eventually-to-be-hired director
will spread the efforts to other locations across the county. READ
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Literacy Council of Central Alabama Gives
The Gift Of Reading
Alabama
News Center: 7.17.2019 by Alabama Power Foundation
“I
always wanted to read the Bible better. I didn’t want to stand up and talk
about what I didn’t know about,” he said. Being authentic is important to
DeBardeleben, who, along with his wife, runs the Resurrection of Life Ministry
in Birmingham.
DeBardeleben
grew up in church and had just about memorized the Bible. That’s how he got by.
But, at 60 years of age, he still couldn’t read it for himself. “I just got
left out of learning. My mom had to raise her siblings, and she didn’t have
time for me.”
Retired
as a heavy equipment operator for Jefferson County, DeBardeleben relied on “a
lot of good friends to help along the way, doing my reports and stuff like
that.”
So,
when his wife walked into a library last year and saw notices for classes with The Literacy Council of Central Alabama,
she knew it could be transformative for her husband. After some coaxing, she
was able to get DeBardeleben to visit. Andrea Oliver remembers meeting him.
“I
always ask the learner what it is they want to learn to read, because there’s a
wide choice of literature out there,” said Oliver, a tutor for The Literacy
Council. READ
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