Funding for school-based Learn and Serve projects is administered by the Ohio Department of Education. The Governor's Community Service Council coordinates community-based Learn and Serve projects. Working in partnership with all of these organizations, the Ohio Family Literacy Statewide Initiative helps school districts and communities to support literacy services for families. Reach Out and Read. Ohio's statewide Reach Out and Read program offers training to volunteers who are interested in helping local pediatricians and libraries provide books to young children and teach parents about the benefits of reading to children.
Reading Is Fundamental.
RIF helps local volunteers set up programs and provides them with access to innovative methods, creative ideas, and new techniques that get children and their families involved in reading. Equipped for the Future. Developed by the National Institute for Literacy, Equipped for the Future is a standards-based reform effort to ensure that adult literacy programs take into account what adults need to know to fulfill their roles as parents, workers, and citizens. Develop a literacy initiative that reflects the community's strengths. View all members of the community as stakeholders in the success of literacy development.