Can you help? Eighty adults are on waitlist for an English tutor

Local adults need help learning English and improving their reading skills. After you complete the training, the commitment is about two hours each week to change someone's life!

The Literacy Connection is offering a Volunteer Tutor Training from 6 to 9 p.m. Feb. 6, 7, 13 and 15, at the Schaumburg Township Public Library's Hanover Park Branch, 1266 Irving Park Road.

On Feb. 6, the first hour will be an introduction to the volunteer tutoring program, and the remaining time is the training. You can learn about the program for free, and stay if you are interested. There is a $25 charge for the training, background check, and tutoring strategies book.

More than 80 adults with limited English or low literacy skills are waiting for a tutor right now. These adults want to improve their English and literacy skills to get or maintain employment, read to their children, become naturalized citizens, and participate in the community.

Registration is recommended, but not required. Contact the Literacy Connection at (847) 742-6565 or info@elginliteracy.org to learn more about the organization or to register for the training workshop.

Additional training workshops are scheduled in March, April and May in nearby communities. See the full schedule at www.elginliteracy.org.

The Literacy Connection serves 16 northwest suburban Chicago communities including Algonquin, Bartlett, Carpentersville, Cary, Elgin, South Elgin, East Dundee, West Dundee, Gilberts, Hanover Park, Hampshire, Hoffman Estates, Huntley, Lake in the Hills, Streamwood, and Schaumburg. The agency provides free customized one-on-one adult tutoring, English conversation groups, citizenship conversation groups, and family literacy programs.