Leaders to bring books to class on Youngstown Community Day
YOUNGSTOWN -- Youngstown STARS and Youngstown Reads Early AmeriCorps, in conjunction with the Neil Kennedy Recovery Clinic and Youngstown city schools, are sponsoring the fifth annual Community Day: Read a Book to a Child from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. Wednesday.
Community leaders will be visiting a number of preschools and elementary schools and reading books to classes. The volunteers will also share with the children how their careers serve the community.
"Community Day is a unique opportunity for our local leaders to simultaneously promote literacy and inspire children with real-life role models of effective community servants," said April Brown, project manager for Youngstown STARS and Youngstown Reads Early AmeriCorps.
Youngstown STARS/Foster Grandparents are volunteers 50 and older who serve as mentors and tutors to Youngstown city school pupils, kindergarten through fourth grade. More than 60 adult volunteers are working with more than 300 pupils in local schools.
Youngstown Reads Early AmeriCorps is a nonprofit literacy and reading enrichment program for children from birth to 5 years old, day-care providers and parents. This year, 12 AmeriCorps members are serving 270 children in eight day-care and preschool sites in Youngstown.
To volunteer to read a book to a class on Wednesday, or for more information, contact Carol Wolford at (330) 740-2848, Ext. 10.