DIRECT SERVICE

• Tutored 191 adults.
• Interviewed and assessed reading and writing skills of 75 learners.
• Matched 67 learner/tutor pairs and placed 7 tutors in community agencies.
• Sent 67 individualized recommendations to tutors upon initial match with their learners.
• Assisted 44 learners to reach their goals, which included expanded educational, job, and personal opportunities.
• Held six 12-hour training sessions for volunteer tutors, training 64 volunteers.
• Referred 46 persons to appropriate services.
• Answered 451 additional information questions.
• Continued to update the Project Read book collection in the Main and Branch libraries.
• Presented 3 continuing education classes for tutors.
• Held 11 tutor roundtable meetings.
• Facilitated 11 meetings of the Wednesday Night Readers Book Club.
• Presented 4 small group workshops for adult learners.

COMPUTER LEARNING LAB

• Received well over 3,000 visits to our lab.
• Facilitated over 260 highly supportive computer lab training sessions.
• Expanded our lab schedule.
• Continued our mission to emphasize the use of select educational software to achieve personal literacy and life skills goals, provide immediate and frequent opportunities for learner success, support learner-tutor teamwork, increase learner independence, demystify technology, and provide a welcoming gathering place for the Project Read community.
• Revised and enhanced our computer lab tutor training materials.
• Collaborated with the SFPL Web Team to refine our computer lab links page and make it accessible online from our website.
• Continued active participation in TINT - BALit. Met quarterly at libraries throughout the Bay Area to explore strategies that make technology accessible, relevant, and engaging for adult literacy learners.

OUTREACH

• Made 24 presentations to community agencies and businesses to promote Project Read services and propose collaborations.
• Made contact with 137 organizations and businesses to recruit additional students and tutors.
• Set up 105 informal information tables in neighborhoods.
• Distributed 7,000 flyers, posters, card stands, newsletters, pens, pencils, and other promotional materials.
• Participated in events at Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Association, City & County of San Francisco Drug Court, Bayview­Hunter’s Point Resource Faire, Bayview MAGIC Youth and Children’s Book and Technology Festival, Bernal Heights Street Fair, John Muir Elementary School, San Francisco Sheriff’s Dept. Pre Release Program, Stacey’s Bookstore, California Literacy, Inc., Health Literacy Initiative, San Francisco Head Start Family and Community Partnership Committee, - San Francisco Chapter, Treasure Island Homeless Development Initiative, Friends & Foundation Book Sale (Fort Mason), Walden House, and Western Addition Community Association - Farmer’s Fair.

FAMILY LITERACY

• Distributed over 700 children’s books to parenting learners. Books and other educational materials were distributed at the learner’s initial intake, workshops, office visits, and special events.
• Facilitated 32 family events where we shared ideas and strategies on topics such as: reading in the home; utilizing the library and other community resources; media literacy; television as a learning tool; science literacy; parenting skills; working with the school system; and health and nutrition.
• Created new family literacy curricula for our tutor training manual.
• Served as a KQED Hands on Learning project mentor to provide support and guidance to other service providers and to develop new learning strategies, create engaging educational materials, and provide first quality books to the underserved and at risk families.
• Collaborated with the Exploratorium® to present 3 highly interactive science literacy workshops.
• Collaborated with the University of California Cooperative Extension Nutrition Education Program to provide an informative, engaging, and tasty nutrition workshop.
• Served on the San Francisco First Book Advisory Board and supported local agencies such as The Children’s Book Project and The Reading Tree.
• Served on the San Francisco Headstart Advisory Board.
• Increased our library of literature-based multimedia materials.
• Held a highly individualized summer reading club for families.
• Recognized by the State Library as a family literacy leader and invited to participate in a statewide summit.

COLLABORATION

• Collaborated with City College of San Francisco by referring Project Read tutors to volunteer at the following Adult Basic Education sites: John Adams Community College, Adult Learning and Tutorial Center, Mission Community College, and Southeast Learning Center.
• Collaborated with Episcopal Community Services of San Francisco by referring Project Read tutors to volunteer with homeless and at risk learners at the Skills Center.
• Collaborated with Common Knowledge, Inc., and the Bay Area Library Information System, and the California State Library to expand the Project Money website to include information on using credit wisely. Learners from the Project Money team also traveled to various libraries and literacy conferences to present workshops on financial literacy topics.
• Collaborated with the Southern California Library Literacy Network to present an information booth at the California League of Cities Conference in San Francisco during October 2005.
• Collaborated with Adult Learners on Staff from California Library Literacy Programs on various projects during the year including the Writer to Writer Challenge sponsored by the Center for the Book and the California State Library.
• Collaborated with Artists For Literacy (SIBL Project) to promote awareness of adult literacy.
• Collaborated with the San Francisco Department of Elections to present a voting workshop for Project Read learners.
• Collaborated with Stacey’s Bookstore to promote Project Read services and expand awareness of adult literacy issues.
• Collaborated with the Art Institute of California - San Francisco to provide additional support in our computer lab and to assist us in creating original materials geared to the needs of adult learners and their families.
• Began on-going collaboration with San Francisco Safe, a coalition of social service workers, and law enforcement officials working to improve conditions at government supported housing in the city.
• Collaborated with the SFPL Web Team to make PDF and HTML versions of the Project Read newsletter available on our web site.