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Submitted by bww on Wed, 2008-03-05 16:23.
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| The Literacy Network of Greater Cincinnati |
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| We are a nonprofit organization that serves as the contact center for literacy programs in the tri-state area. Our service area includes eight counties: Hamilton, Clermont, Butler, and Warren in Ohio; Kenton, Campbell, and Boone in Kentucky; and Dearborn in Indiana. We work with a coalition of more than 100 literacy-provider agencies and more than 30 schools to improve lives throughout the region. |
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| Our Mission |
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| The Literacy Network of Greater Cincinnati champions the development of literacy in the individual, the family, the workplace, the school, and the community by raising awareness, improving access, and serving as a catalyst for literacy efforts. |
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| Our Responsibilities |
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- Serving as a coordinating body for more than 60 literacy programs that operate in 100 different sites throughout the tri-state area
- Providing a full-time information and referral hotline at 513-621-7323
- Providing special classes for adults and children with profound reading difficulties
- Recruiting students, tutors, and other volunteers for literacy programs
- Providing tutor training for volunteers and staff
- Recruiting, training, and placing Cincinnati Reads volunteers to work one-on-one with kindergarten through fourth-grade Cincinnati Public School students struggling with reading
- Assisting with the formation of new literacy programs in the workplace and in the community
- Providing a regional literacy resource center for the use of our provider membership
- Providing resources such as books and materials to literacy programs
- Advocating for legislation to provide funding for literacy programs
- Promoting literacy in the community
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| Fact Sheet |
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The Literacy Network provides the hotline, which receives calls from adult learners, volunteer tutors, and parents of children with reading problems.
The Literacy Network provides monthly tutor training sessions that have resulted in the referral and placement of hundreds of trained tutors to adult literacy agencies.
The Literacy Network’s Cincinnati Reads Program recruits, trains, places, coordinates, and recognizes volunteers working with struggling readers in the Cincinnati Public Schools.
The Literacy Network provides free, multisensory Adult and Children’s Basic Reading Program classes to individuals with severe reading difficulties.
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