Read and Grow Rich

• Stronger analytical skills
• Improves focus and concentration
• Word development to enhance speaking skills (not in terms of public speaking, but communication in general)
• Memory improvement

Our reading program is designed to provide a positive learning environment through which underperforming students can find ready access to the help they need. Assistance is provided by qualified and strategically fit tutors and reading specialists that they would otherwise not have avaiable to them.

Our program implements unique strategies that address low-achieving literacy for urban youth.

It needs to be understood that struggling with reading skills is not a sign of low intelligence. Children develop their reading abilities at different rates. Those who appear to be falling behind can become discouraged, further limiting their ability to learn. Our desire is to come along side these young people, knowing they have the ability, but needing someone to encourage them and provide the best resources possible for their development.

It is not an overstatement to say that we are in a literacy crisis. If reading deficiencies are not conquered earlier in life it is unlikely that sufficient reading skills will develop later in life. Overcoming negative attitudes concerning reading development becomes increasingly more difficult into the teen years and beyond. It is easy to justify a lack of reading ability by saying that you have gotten along fine so far.

Unfortunately, many children grow up in an environment that does not encourage reading. Parents who have not developed adequate reading ability are less likely to encourage their children to improve their skills. Reading difficulties are in a sense inherited. If a parent does not read well children do not have thee at home models for developing a desire to read. Parental involvement in their children’s learning is crucial, not only as it affects literacy, but all areas of a child’s education. Reading and literacy development should be a joint effort between home and school.

Literacy, or lack thereof, will have either a positive or negative ripple affect across a community that either way will, over time, only become greater.

Grow a Future will collaborate to provide integrated family support services that build upon existing community resources and link young people with local public schools. We are committed to supporting parent involvement activities by providing staff for parental training.

Like anything worth developing in one’s life,

developing adequate reading skills takes time and discipline.