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Volunteers help provide this nourishment for the mind, shaping young lives and bright futures. Reading just 20 minutes a day as a child drastically improves the child’s chance for success in all of areas of life. The minds of young children are always changing, growing, and most of all, searching for something to become. If you’re new, apply to become a volunteer and fill out the required information. If you’re a return user, enter your user name and password. Once you locate the site where you plan to volunteer, click the blue Sign Up tab. Not only will you grow as a person, but you will lead children to a brighter future and you will be key in making reading a central part in their lives.Īre you ready to volunteer with us? Click here to search for opportunities to volunteer with the Come Read with Me program. Interested in serving as a program specialist part-time? Watch the Metropolitan Library System’s Jobs page for available opportunities.

Abilities: Physical ability to lift medium sized articles, sometimes weighing up to 50 pounds maximum and carrying of objects weighing up to 50 pounds pushing and/or pulling objects weighing up to 50 pounds maximum.

Skill in: superior classroom management.

Knowledge of: quality children’s literature.

Some of the knowledge, skills, and abilities for program specialists:

Serves as ambassador to provide information about Metropolitan Library System services and events to CRWM participants and families.

Prepares the environment with books and supplies in the space provided within an existing after-school or summer program.

Transports reading materials to and from each CRWM session.

Selects interesting and appropriate literature from the materials to read with children in the CRWM after-school and summer programs.

Program Specialists typically have staff meetings the week before each session begins and occasionally staff meetings between sessions.Įssential job functions for program specialists include:

Though listed as part-time, they are at their assigned sites eight weeks in the fall, eight weeks in the spring, and six weeks in the summer. Program specialists are hired on an as-needed basis. There is one program specialist assigned per site who serves as the leader of the youth assistant, volunteers, and children. Program specialists typically have a background in education or extensive experience in reading to and with children and are willing to help them grow. They are essential to coordinating with each site and ensuring that each child gets the attention and experience needed and deserved. Approximately one dozen outreach program specialists work in the Come Read With Me program.