Lit Connection seeks volunteers

The Literacy Connection will hold a free orientation session for prospective tutors from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 29 from at the Gail Borden Public Library, second floor Conference Room, 270 N. Grove Ave., in Elgin.

Training workshops will follow from 6 to 8:45 p.m. on Oct. 30 and Nov. 5, 6, 12, 13 and 19 at the same location. Volunteers can make up missed sessions during a later training series or online.

Once trained, tutors are matched with an adult student for tutoring an hour or two a week, at a time and place of their choice.

Volunteers are needed to tutor in both Basic Reading and English as a Second Language. No special education is required, and you do not have to know a foreign language. If you can read, write, and converse in English, a Literacy Connection student needs you.

For more information, contact The Literacy Connection at (847) 742-6565, e-mail info@elginliteracy.org, visit www.elginliteracy.org or attend the Oct. 29 orientation.

The Literacy Connection, an affiliate of ProLiteracy America, serves adults and young children in 16 communities in the northwest suburbs: 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. Programs include English as a Second Language, Basic Reading, Family Literacy, Workplace Literacy, and Summer Youth Tutoring.