Community: Where It's At
Literacy Work = Community Work
Our Newest Partner: The Buffalo Urban League!
The WNY Literacy Initiative is comprised of community partner organizations, because the work of literacy cannot be done without the entire community. Please welcome the 19th partner organization on board: The Buffalo Urban League!
Since 1927, the Buffalo Urban League has brought positive change and opportunities for a better future to hundreds of thousands of lives in the Buffalo-Niagara region. Our services build strong and stable families through empowering disadvantaged individuals to secure economic self-reliance, parity, power, and civil rights. Our programs serve individuals from birth through senior years by providing family support and stabilization services, foster care, adoption, education, job training, employment, scholarships, health awareness, financial management, business development, technical assistance, and loan, and housing counseling to renters, first-time homeowners, and to prevent foreclosures to families and individuals in our community. For more information on our services and programs, please visit us at www.buffalourbanleague.org.
Community Outreach: Family Literacy Workshop 9/22/22
One of the most important aspects of the WNY Literacy Initiative is community outreach, specifically, raising awareness about why literacy is important, raising awareness about dyslexia and what it is, and providing resources for families and caregivers.
Our first event is this Thursday, 9/22, at the Northland Workforce Training Center. We will be presenting alongside our WNY Literacy Initiative partner, Dyslexia Services of WNY. There will be food, giveaways, and parents will leave empowered! Please join us and spread the word.
WNY Science of Reading Conference: What’s New?
We are so close to announcing our final agenda with our incredible list of speakers, but in the meantime, I want to share with you three of our panel sessions. Yes, this conference is bringing in the best minds in the literacy space from around the country, but we’re also calling upon the experts we have right in our community and our region.
In addition to this amazing K12 panel, we have an outstanding higher education panel, highlighting the important role they play in training teachers.
Lastly, the EdTrust-NY will be hosting a policy panel, moderated by Deputy Director, Jeff Smink. We will announce the speaker line-up for this panel very soon!
Wherever you are, whatever you do, we consider each of you a partner in the WNY Literacy Initiative. Literacy is the work of everyone.
Thanks, as always, for reading.
Tarja
