Adults Need Strong Literacy Skills To...
- raise children who have strong literacy skills.
- be good employees.
- keep themselves and their families healthy.
- be active in their communities..
- advocate for themselves
- avoid poverty and
- avoid crime and incarceration.
Baltimore Reads improves the quality of life for educationally disadvantaged adults, children, and families by teaching basic reading, writing, mathematics, English language acquisition, and employment readiness. We emphasize the strong literacy and life skills that are essential for lifelong learning, employment, and self-sufficiency.
Our students have many goals. They want to help their children succeed in school, continue their own education and training at the post-secondary level, advance in the workplace through acquisition of a GED or improve English language skills and achieve citizenship.
Our Portable Classrooms teaching model allows us to partner with other service providers and offer programs throughout Baltimore City. But we don’t stop there. A child’s opportunity for school achievement is greatly affected by the parents’ education level, literacy skills, attitude toward learning, and economic stability.
Parents Who Can’t Read Have Children Who Don’t Read.
Our Book Bank collects, and distributes thousands of new and gently used children’s books for free. The Book Bank augments school libraries and opens its doors to teachers, families, churches, Head Start programs, shelters, children’s centers, social service agencies and community organizations. Targeted outreach programs bring free books, spelling bees, and storytellers to unique locations around the city to encourage an intergenerational love for reading and lifelong learning. Fostering the love of learning and reading as an activity the family can practice together. BRI often recruits its adult learners through its family literacy outreach and Book Bank activities.
You can join us in breaking the chains of intergenerational illiteracy.
Our students have many goals. They want to help their children succeed in school, continue their own education and training at the post-secondary level, advance in the workplace through acquisition of a GED or improve English language skills and achieve citizenship.
Our Portable Classrooms teaching model allows us to partner with other service providers and offer programs throughout Baltimore City. But we don’t stop there. A child’s opportunity for school achievement is greatly affected by the parents’ education level, literacy skills, attitude toward learning, and economic stability.
Parents Who Can’t Read Have Children Who Don’t Read.
Our Book Bank collects, and distributes thousands of new and gently used children’s books for free. The Book Bank augments school libraries and opens its doors to teachers, families, churches, Head Start programs, shelters, children’s centers, social service agencies and community organizations. Targeted outreach programs bring free books, spelling bees, and storytellers to unique locations around the city to encourage an intergenerational love for reading and lifelong learning. Fostering the love of learning and reading as an activity the family can practice together. BRI often recruits its adult learners through its family literacy outreach and Book Bank activities.
You can join us in breaking the chains of intergenerational illiteracy.
- Become a donor by making a financial or "in-kind" donation;
- Host a Book Drive at your schoole, job, or in your community;
- Volunteer your time as a tutor, administrative support staff member, Book Bank assistant, etc;
- Refer a student to take FREE classes at Baltimore Reads.
