The Youth Literacy Program just wrapped-up week five of summer camp! This is an eight-week summer camp program working with fifty-two elementary-age students in the Youth Transformed for Life and the Christine W. Avery Learning Center summer camps. Twenty-six young adult interns received training in phonics-based instruction to work with the students daily to build literacy skills and a love for reading!
The interns also benefit from professional learning opportunities. Joseph Jamison from United Way, Lauren De Haan from the UNC Asheville Career Center, and David Dowd from Bank of America have provided workshops for the interns to build their professional knowledge, skills, and experience.
WLOS's interview with Julie Taylor, the Youth Literacy Program Director
On Tuesday, July 19, the City of Asheville's Housing and Community Development Committee reviewed and made its final recommendations for which organizations should receive funding from the city's Strategic Partnership Pilot Program to help close the opportunity gap. The Evaluation Committee then sent a list of their top 8 recommended recipients to the Housing and Community Development Committee for review, and Literacy Together is one of them. Here you can read the article and watch the interview. Thank you!
In this video, she talks about how improving her English has enriched her life and how she can now support her family to navigate her father's medical appointments. Thank you, Lupita, for sharing your experience!
We received this sweet note from a DPIL family! The Imagination Library puts books into the hands and hearts of children worldwide. We're mailing a free book each month to over 4,800 registered children in Buncombe County.
188 people have attended our online volunteer orientation meetings in 2022 so far! Is someone you know ready to work with us? People cansign up online to volunteer or send an email tolaura@lit-together.org.
Even if you can't commit to volunteering right now, you are welcome to come to an orientation meeting to learn about the literacy challenges we face in our community and what Literacy Together is doing to overcome them! Linda came to an orientation meeting a few years ago, and the information she gathered helped her to understand her neighbors better.
"I love Literacy Together! One of their presentations changed the way I think of people and how I relate to them. I have so much forgiveness in people knowing the numbers about literacy."
Linda Youngblood
We want to thankAVL Today for continuing to feature our online volunteer orientation meetings in its daily newsletters :)
THANK YOU to all who have donated items from our Amazon Wishlist!
Many potential volunteers find out about us from Volunteer Match, and the more awesome reviews we have on the site, the better! If you are a tutor and could take a few minutes to submit a review here, you'd be helping us recruit more volunteer tutors, and we'll be very grateful. Thanks in advance! Below is what one of our ESOL tutors said about volunteering with us!
