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Project READ training
volunteer tutors
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[DEC. 8, 2003]
Literacy affects individuals
and the community in very direct ways. To read directions on a
medicine bottle or a driver's license manual, or to use a telephone
directory or a bus schedule, a person has to read at a basic level
of understanding. Children's educational potential is directly
related to their parents' level of literacy.
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Billions of dollars are spent on
welfare and unemployment costs that can be traced to illiteracy. It
costs the business community billions of dollars annually in costs
directly related to the literacy level of the work force, such as
low productivity, poor product quality, lost supervisory time and
workplace accidents. It is apparent that skills in reading and
speaking English are needed by millions of people.
This is not a national problem that is
happening somewhere out there, away from here. It is right here too.
Logan County has a large number of its population reading below the
level necessary to function effectively in daily life.
Reading Education for Adult
Development, more simply known as Project READ, is a volunteer
literacy program serving Logan County. It is sponsored by Heartland
Community College through a grant from the Illinois secretary of
state's office.
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Through Project READ, tutors and
students meet one-on-one for one to two hours a week at a convenient
location, usually at Heartland's Lincoln campus in downtown Lincoln.
Training, materials and support for tutors are provided by the
program coordinator.
Tutor
training will be Jan. 12, 13 and 14 from 8 a.m. to noon. If you are
interested in volunteering to teach an adult to read, please contact
Valerie Conrady at Heartland Community College, 735-1731.
[News release]
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