Literacy Programs for Children and Youth

 Dignity and More! The Library Project, Dig-Knitty and Share What You Wear volunteers, in partnership with the Cuyahoga County Departments of Children and Family Services, provide children with necessary and comforting items to ease the transition from being abruptly removed from their homes due to abuse or neglect.
   
 

Hello Israel: A social studies program educating 6th grade students in schools with little or no Jewish population about Israel. 

   
 

Imagination Express: Volunteers bring storytelling, drama, art projects, and songs to New Life Community, a transitional housing facility for homeless families who are rebuilding their lives.

   
 

Reader’s Theater:  Volunteers participate in a drama/literacy technique, which teaches fourth grade students to present a play by using only a script.  Volunteers work with children in three one-hour sessions in a classroom setting to bring a production to performance.

   
 

Reading Buddies: This program is a partnership with the Jewish Community Center. First and second grade students share their reading accomplishments with a volunteer buddy. Frequently the students establish relationships with their buddies and friendships develop. 

   
 

Partners In Reading:  Volunteers encourage love for reading with three projects. The G.R.A.D.S. program for high school expectant and new parents, a Lunch Bunch program book discussion group with fifth grade boys and girls, a L.E.A.F. program which introduces books to parents taking English as a second language.