Council: Literacy Unlimited cont'd

Event: Family Storytelling Morning - 2002

Goals: To emphasize to parents the importance of reading with their children and to provide them with tips and materials to facilitate this in the home; to provide a fun environment for the children to participate in the reading process and to provide them with the reading materials which they may otherwise not have had at home; to recruit adult literacy students.

Target: Families with children at Woodland Elementary School

Description: A storytelling event was held at Woodland Elementary School in Verdun. Parents were invited with their children. Gift bags and literacy information were provided. There was a donation of used books and a raffle.

Partners: Woodland Elementary School

Project: Peer Tutoring

Duration: A few weeks

Goals: To train high school students to tutor younger peers.

Target: Children 5-12; youth 13-17

Description: High school students were trained by Literacy Unlimited, matched with elementary school students, and followed through the school's Peer Tutoring Program.

Partners: Lindsay Place High School

Program: Born To Read

Goals: To assist new mothers identified as high risk by the CLSC to create a learning culture at home.

Target: Expectant mothers who are registered in the OLO Program (oeufs, lait, oranges) at CLSC Pierrefonds.

Description: Bags of books are distributed each month at a health clinic run by CLSC Pierrefonds.

Partners: Born to Read