Transforming Lives
One Person, One Job, One Family and One Community at a Time
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Transforming Lives One Person, One Job, One Family and One Community at a Time
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Chippewa County CVTC-Chippewa Campus
770 Scheidler Rd.
Chippewa Falls, WI 54729
Phone: 715-738-3857 Chippewa County offers 3 programs for adults and their
families:
One To One Tutoring Volunteers participate in a 16 hour training that prepares them to be matched with an adult student. Pairs meet at least once per week for at least an hour in a public location such as the Public Library, CVTC, a school or church. The volunteer tutor and adult student work on goals identified by the student such as improving their reading ability, English speaking, citizenship, reading to their children, learning to use the computer, improving their employment or perhaps getting a driver's license. Corrections Education
GED and HSED instruction are conducted in the Chippewa
County Jail. Instructors work with the assistance of trained volunteer tutors on Monday and Thursday afternoons from 1:30
until 3:30. Tutors also work in the evenings or weekends with inmates requiring additional help. Two additional programs are
conducted within the jail. A book club meets monthly with a volunteer tutor facilitating discussion about an assigned book.
Prior to Christmas and Easter, volunteer tutors, board members, and staff assist inmates record reading a book to
their children
on tape. The books and tapes are wrapped and sent to the children of the inmates.
Family Literacy
Family literacy is available through a partnership with the
Northern Region Family Literacy Program
located in Holcombe. Tutors work with parents on their individual literacy goals. Family
literacy includes four components: adult education, early childhood education, interactive literacy activities and parenting.
The program is located at the Lake Holcombe Schools and is offered on
Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday mornings from 8:30 until
11:30. Anyone who has
ever been in a family and has a literacy
need is welcome to attend. To enroll or get more information call Kathy Walthers
at 715-595-4241 ex 261.
For more information about either tutoring or becoming a learner in any of the programs available in Chippewa County, contact Margarete Cook at 715-738-3857 or e-mail Margarete.
Literacy Volunteers - Chippewa Valley Chippewa County is a United Way of Chippewa County Agency
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