Help an adult learn English this year with The Literacy Connection
The Literacy Connection needs more tutors. Can you give just 1-2 hours per week to help someone achieve their goals in 2016? You will impact your life and someone else's life in a profoundly positive way. Imagine if you or a loved one struggled with literacy or communicating in English. What would life be like?
You can help and adult learn English this year! Become an adult literacy tutor with The Literacy Connection by attending 12 hours of training on Saturdays, Jan. 9 and 16, from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. with an hour break for lunch each day.
Not sure if tutoring is for you? The first hour of this session is an orientation. Learn more with no obligation. Tutor training is free, but there is a $25 fee to cover the textbook, "LITSTART: Strategies For Adult Literacy and ESL Tutors," and other handouts. Cash or a check made payable to The Literacy Connection is collected at the end of the first course meeting.
To register for the volunteer training sessions, visit www.elginliteracy.org, call (847) 742-6565 or email info@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 customized one-on-one adult tutoring, English conversation groups, and family literacy programs.
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U.S. Literacy Challenge
According to <a href="http://www.proliteracy.org/the-crisis/adult-literacy-facts">ProLiteracy</a>, 14 percent of adults over age 16 in the U.S. cannot read beyond a fifth-grade level, and only 29 percent of adults can read at the eighth-grade level. Among those with the lowest literacy rates, 43 percent live in poverty and struggle to find work, remain healthy, and support their families. Low literacy is expensive. Its effects cost the U.S. $225 billion in workforce non-productivity and lost tax revenue due to unemployment, and low literacy adds an additional $230 billion to the country's annual health care costs. Seventy-five percent of state prison inmates and 59 percent of federal prison inmates did not complete high school or can be classified as low literate.