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CAPITAL AREA LITERACY COALITION
America Reads Contact: Lois A. Bader
1028 E. Saginaw
Lansing, Michigan 48906
E-mail: lbader@pilot.msu.edu
Telephone: 517-485-4949 Fax: 517-485-1924
Participation: Literacy coalition whose mission is to develop programs and strategies to improve literacy at all levels.
Tutoring: Over 1000 volunteers at any one time that includes community members and university students for credit, as volunteers and FWS. Training programs for tutoring children, for family literacy, for adults and for English as a Second language. Special programs include migrant adult and family learning centers; workplace literacy, corrections, public housing family, teens and children at risk, children's book drop, jr.great books adaption, family school partnership, vision screening, diagnostic, special education / reading disabilities services, inter agency cooperation and collaboration, school and preschool programs. We include Americorps VISTAS and have won several awards for our programs. We are willing to share our programs and training.
Resources: Our Read to Succeed Literacy Tutor's Manual and Read to Succeed Literacy Tutor Trainer's Manual are available from Prentice Hall, Call 1-800-526-0485 to order ($19 each) Growing Readers can be order from us at CALC. We welcome visitors and we are available for training and consulting. Americorps VISTAS and Staff coordinate programs. We have several yearly fundraisers; teach staff to write grants; support other collaborators. Safe havens include places in public housing, libraries, mobile homes converted to learning centers.
Research: We track all tutors and students with computer programs at CALC offices and at MSU Student Literacy Corps Office (these computers are connected. All participants are pre and post tested and we keep track of other indications of progress or success. All of our programs are evaluated.
Relations: We have published our research and our efforts in professional journals; we have video tapes of television coverage; we have a newspaper file of coverage. We are affiliated with National Alliance of Urban Literacy Coalitions and with LVA.
OGEMAW COUNTY LITERACY COUNCIL
America Reads Contact: James Brophy
119 N. 4th Street P.O. Box 753
West Branch, MI 48661
E-mail:libwb@kirtland.cc.mi.us
Telephone: (517) 345-3033 Fax: (517) 345-2235
Particiption: The Ogemaw County Literacy Council provides free one-on-one tutoring for children and adults. We are located in rural northern Michigan (county population is 20,000). We are affiliated with our state organization, Michigan Literacy, Inc.
Tutoring: We have 75 trained volunteer tutors, 25 of these tutors are presently active. The majority of these volunteers are retired seniors. We serve young people as well as adults. At the present time, our students range from eight years old to 72 years of age. We operate from three libraries in the county. We also conduct ESL tutoring for the employees at a local Chinese restaurant. Our training sessions of twelve hours are free and open to any interested persons. We also provide every newborn baby at the local hospital with free reading materials and information for parents.. This program, Born to Read, has been in operation since 1995 and is funded by contributions from the local libraries and service organizations.
Resources: We share our knowledge and materials with other areas that demonstrate an interest in providing literacy assistance. There are few such organizations in northern Michigan. We are manned by a part time coordinator who oversees evaluation, placement, and coordination of staff efforts. We provide safe locations, the local libraries, for tutors to meet with their clients.
Research: Students are evaluated using the SORT and the Bader Reading Inventory when they enter the program, yearly after they enter the program, and when they finish our program. We evaluate the success of our program by the nunber of clients we serve each year and by the success of those clients.
Relations: We attempt to support our existing efforts through contacts with local service organizations, schools, state and local service providers. We have found we have the most success from word of mouth.
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