Council: Literacy Unlimited

Note: Literacy Unlimited has offered prevention initiatives in the past but is currently not involved in this area. The following describes some of these activities:

Event: Family Literacy Day 1999-2003

Goals: To inform the public of literacy problems in the community; to highlight the importance of reading in the family at an early age.

Target: General public; families

Description: An information kiosque was set up in the local shopping mall; information was distributed and questions were answered; there were storytellers and a "make-your-own-book" activity. A reading area, where children had access to books of all kinds, was available. Parents and children received give-away bags.

Event: Reading Week Activities with Woodland Elementary School

Goals: To increase public awareness; student recruitment (parents of elementary school children); to build a relationship between the literacy council and local elementary school identified as having high levels of low literacy.

Target: Children 5-12 years, and their parents

Description: The council participated in Woodland Elementary School's Reading Week activities by providing animated bookbinding workshops for parents in all classrooms. Parents were invited for refreshments and a raffle was held.

Partners: QLWG, Woodland Elementary School