The city of Kettering is located three miles south of urban Dayton and within Montgomery County, Ohio. First settled in 1798 as a farming community, the tri-city area now employees more than 500,000 within a 30 mile radius. General Motors provides a strong manufacturing base. Within the county, there are an estimated 70,000 functionally illiterate residents and approximately 40,000 jobs that are unfilled due to lack of skills. In the initial project, children must be enrolled either in Pathfinders Preschool, the Even Start Family Literacy program, or in a K-3 school district program.
All children are eligible to participate.
The number of volunteer hours assigned to any given child will be determined by developmental levels of the child and risk indicators for developmental delays in reading and literacy skills. Tutors will be assigned to children and hours served will depend on the option that the tutor chooses. Tutors can serve from one hour to eight hours per week. Tutor Information Tutors will be recruited through the City network, through news articles, school district fliers, PSA's and word of mouth. Tutoring sessions will be help within the classroom, in the after school program, or at the low-income housing developments.