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 volunteer tutors who help adults learn to read and write. During the 12-hour training session, volunteer tutors learn methods of teaching and assisting adult learners in achieving their goals. Materials are provided and there is a staffed Computer Lab at the 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 these skills with someone requesting help. The Adult Basic Education program provides tutors for functionally illiterate adults whose first language is English, or who have a near native command of spoken English. This program works with adults whose first language is not English and who lack basic skills in reading and writing English. Targets parents with low literacy skills. This program supports the important connection between an adult's emerging literacy skills and the transference of these skills to their children.