Join the Encouragement Team!
Encouragement Team volunteers (ETVs) followup with families after they have received a bag of books. They make contact at regular intervals to encourage families in their literacy journey. You have a unique opportunity to play an important role in helping a family create a culture of reading for family transformation. Retired teachers, literacy advocates, authors, reading specialists, parents, and librarians should consider signing up.
ETV Purpose:
1. To encourage families in their strengths (using positive, affirming words)
2. To encourage families along their literacy journey
3. To encourage parents to be INTENTIONAL about reading in front of and with their children
4. To encourage families to upload photos and/or videos of their literacy journey
5. To share community resources about literacy, for example: Where can I get my GED? How do I get a library card? Where can I learn how to read? How can I get help for a reading disorder? When is the next book giveaway?
Specific duties and Responsibilities:
1. Call a designated number of families ( one family per volunteer is preferred)
2. Make return calls (within reason) until the family is reached
3. Able to call the assigned families using the year-long schedule
4. Use the script provided & end the call when family is ready
5. Keep track of start & end time of call
6. Take detailed notes of the family responses
Qualifications:
1. Able to read
2. Follow directions
3. Maintain confidentiality of families
4. Able to use Google Suite, Google chat
Working Conditions:
1. Quiet & private place to make the assigned calls
ETV Purpose:
1. To encourage families in their strengths (using positive, affirming words)
2. To encourage families along their literacy journey
3. To encourage parents to be INTENTIONAL about reading in front of and with their children
4. To encourage families to upload photos and/or videos of their literacy journey
5. To share community resources about literacy, for example: Where can I get my GED? How do I get a library card? Where can I learn how to read? How can I get help for a reading disorder? When is the next book giveaway?
Specific duties and Responsibilities:
1. Call a designated number of families ( one family per volunteer is preferred)
2. Make return calls (within reason) until the family is reached
3. Able to call the assigned families using the year-long schedule
4. Use the script provided & end the call when family is ready
5. Keep track of start & end time of call
6. Take detailed notes of the family responses
Qualifications:
1. Able to read
2. Follow directions
3. Maintain confidentiality of families
4. Able to use Google Suite, Google chat
Working Conditions:
1. Quiet & private place to make the assigned calls
Attend a training to learn more about becoming an ETV. The training is not a commitment to volunteer.
The Metro East Literacy Project does not and shall not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion (creed), gender, gender expression, age, national origin (ancestry), disability, marital status, sexual orientation, or military status, in any of its activities or operations.
Thursday, August 4, 2022 (In-person and virtual)
6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
East Side Aligned (formerly Community Lifeline)
1764 State Street
East St. Louis, Illinois 62205
Register here.
Saturday, August 13, 2022 (In-person)
9:30 a.m. to 12 p.m.
O'Fallon Public Library
120 Civic Plaza
O'Fallon, Illinois 62269
Register here.
6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
East Side Aligned (formerly Community Lifeline)
1764 State Street
East St. Louis, Illinois 62205
Register here.
Saturday, August 13, 2022 (In-person)
9:30 a.m. to 12 p.m.
O'Fallon Public Library
120 Civic Plaza
O'Fallon, Illinois 62269
Register here.
Thank you!!
We love volunteers!
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Here are some photos of our wonderful volunteers.
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