Children’s Literacy Program

Our Children’s Literacy work aims to engage children in a lifelong love of books and reading, thereby helping to close the gap in school performance for economically disadvantaged children. We recruit and train volunteers as Reading Tutors to work on-site one afternoon a week at four after-school partner sites in Manhattan. Tutors provide one-on-one shared reading sessions with age-appropriate books for children in grades kindergarten through 5th grade. Students keep their books after they have read them with their tutors, building up a home library over the course of the year that instills pride and encourages continued reading practice at home. 

If you are interested in learning more about becoming a Children’s Literacy Program volunteer, please visit our volunteer page.

If you’re interested in becoming a partner agency for the Children’s Literacy Program, please contact Tracey Onyeuche at oonyeuche@ncjwny.org, or fill out the form below: