Participation in Project Read is completely confidential. Learners achieve their personal goals with the help of carefully matched Project Read tutors. The project provides FREE training to prepare volunteer tutors to help adults learn to read and write. During the 15-hour training session, volunteer tutors will learn methods of teaching and assisting adult learners in achieving their goals. The project has materials available for their use and a staffed Computer Lab at the Menlo Park Public Library for computer-assisted instruction.
Volunteers come from a variety of backgrounds.
The only requirement is the ability to read and write and a willingness to share their skills with someone requesting help. This was the first and original program that provides individual tutors to functionally illiterate adults whose first language is English or who have a near native command of spoken English. This program caters to adults whose first language is not English and who lack basic skills in reading and writing English. This targets parents with low literacy skills. More and more workplaces are finding themselves with a work force that cannot communicate in English well enough to contribute to the efficient operation of their companies.