Salem - Keizer
Baker Even Start - Family Literacy Center – Salem/Keizer
The program exists to break the cycle of intergenerational poverty and illiteracy by improving the educational opportunities of low income families. The model integrates services for children and their parents into a unified program. Comprehensive family literacy services include four components: adult education (adult basic skills, English as a Second Language, work skills), parenting education and support, parent and child together time and early childhood education. The components are integrated into one program, so that what is being learned in one component is supported by activities in the other components. Unique program assets include on-site Adult Basic Education offered through Chemeketa Community College, on-site early childhood education for children 0-5 years old, and research based parenting education provided by certified home visitors trained in early childhood brain development (Parents As Teachers - Born to Learn™ curriculum).
Contact:
Jacob Bailey
bailey_jacob@salkeiz.k12.or.us
503 399 3130
Churches as Neighborhood Centers Reading Program
Contact:
Carrie Maheu, SLF
carrie@salemlf.org
503-559-5677
Jump Start – N. Salem
Early Childhood Enrichment - working with 4 to 6 yrs with language enrichment, literacy activities, phonemic activities, letter/color recognition & math manipulatives.
Contact:
Salem First Free Methodist Church
carrie@salemlf.org
503-559-5677
Raising a Reader – Salem Area
The Raising a Reader mission is to foster healthy brain development, parent-child bonding and early literacy skills by engaging parents in a routine of daily "book cuddling" with their children from birth to age five. Book bags and parent training and coaching are delivered by home visitors. Bags are exchanged monthly for bags with different books. Families are encouraged to take advantage of their local library and other literacy resources and events.
Contact:
Mary Lou Moore
vernandmarylou@wbcable.net
503-743-3737
Reach Out and Read – North, South & East Salem
Reach Out and Read is a national pediatric literacy program. When patients between the ages of 6 months and 5 years come in for their well child check, they receive a brand new, age- and language-appropriate book to take home for free.
Contact:
Jo Ristow
jristow@wfmc.mvipa.org
503-485-3905
www.reachoutandread.org
SMART (Start Making a Reader Today) – Salem, Keizer, Woodburn, Silverton and Aumsville
VISION: An Oregon where every child can read and is empowered to succeed. MISSION: We engage community volunteers to read one-on-one with K-3 children who need literacy support. Participating children also receive new books each month to keep and read with their families. Research shows that: * 1 in 3 Oregon fourth graders reads below the basic level. * Children need to learn to read by third grade so they can read to learn. * Those who don’t learn to read by third grade are more likely to struggle with reading as adults, drop out of school, and be less successfully employed. But here’s the difference SMART makes. A study by the Eugene Research Institute reveals that fifth graders who participated in SMART are 60 percent more likely to reach state reading benchmarks than are similar students who did not participate. SMART students develop reading accuracy, fluency, and comprehension significantly faster and maintain these gains even after completing the program.
Contact:
Central Valley SMART Office
tmccammon05@getsmartoregon.org
541-754-1446
www.getsmartoregon.org
South East Neighborhood Community Center – S. Salem
Encourage children to read at Learning Center during our K-6th After-School Program.
Contact:
Eldon Woods
eldonw@capitalpark.org
503-362-6626
www.capitalpark.org
Southeast Keizer Community Center ESOL Classes - Keizer
We offer English language instruction to adults in the community. Our goal is to help motivated adults improve their ability to live and succeed in an English language environment.
Contact:
Jack Knox and Joseph Penner
smcpastor@qwestoffice.net
503-390-2715
Southeast Keizer Community Center Homework Club – Keizer
We offer one to one (or one to two) tutoring to a limited number of qualified elementary school students in order to help them keep up with the school work and improve reading, writing, and math skills. Our mission is to help disadvantaged school-age children achieve.
Contact:
Joseph Penner
smcsekcc@qwestoffice.net
503-390-2715
YMCA Childcare Site Reader Program - 6 sites (Salem-Keizer)
Participants will read a series of books and enjoy a variety of complimentary games, arts, crafts and more around the themes to enhance and encourage their love of reading.
Contact:
Michelle Fleener
Salem YMCA
503-581-9622
Reach Out and Read – All of Marion County
We give books out starting at 6 months of age and at well child check's to encourage reading with the ROR PROGRAM.
Contact:
Childhood Health Associate's of Salem/Elizabeth Peasley or Debi Pontarolo
elizabethp@childhoodhealth.com
503-364-2181