The Literacy Team helps community members develop their skills and passion for reading.
Major Events:
Literacy Week & Banned Book Week
Sept. 23 through 30, 2007
National Library Week
April 13 through 19, 2008
Ongoing Volunteer Opportunities:
First Book
First Book is a national nonprofit organization with a single mission: to give children from low-income families the opportunity to read and own their first new books. First Book provides an ongoing supply of new books to children participating in community-based mentoring, tutoring and family literacy programs.
www.firstbook.org
Even-Start Family Literacy
Even Start Family Literacy programs are school-community partnerships that help break the cycle of poverty and illiteracy by integrating early childhood education, adult literacy or adult basic education and parenting education into a unified family literacy program. Even Start is implemented nationally through cooperative projects that build on high-quality existing community resources, creating a new range of services for children, families and adults. Our local program is sponsored through ADVOCAP.
Other Agencies the Literacy Team works with:
Ripon Reads
Ripon Reads is an organization comprising professionals with the power to influence reading, readers and literacy in our area. Ripon Reads mission is to promote reading and literacy programs and events in the surrounding areas.
Ripon Public Library
The OCE provides our local library with volunteers for library events and is involved predominantly in supporting the library's children's programming.
www.riponlibrary.org
Friends of the Ripon Library
Reading Specialists in local school districts
Public Libraries in surrounding communities
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