Programs
Our main goal at Literacy Mid-South is to create innovative programs that help support, coordinate, and expand community efforts to promote literacy and create a new generation of lifelong learners.
We help adults improve reading, writing, English language, and digital literacy skills.
We connect new parents and families to resources that support foundational literacy skills for young children.
We help community organizations obtain and deliver literacy information and resources for learners of all ages.
OBCARES
Be your baby’s first teacher! OBCARES is a prenatal educational program for expectant parents and caregivers. Its goal is to provide information on the importance of talking, reading, and singing to your baby from birth.
Bluff City Baby
Engaging in nurturing touch, talk, read, and play on a daily basis lays the foundation for a baby’s language skills and social-emotional development. Bluff City Baby is a partnership between LMS, Urban Child Institute, and local hospitals to give new parents a gift pack of literacy learning activities for a child’s early years.
Out-of-School Time Support
Reading on grade-level by the third grade is one of the most important indicators of success in school. We support a wide network of community partners to provide tutoring, interventions, and resources to elementary students during the summer and before/after-school to support the learning happening in the classroom.
Tutor901
Literacy Mid-South was one of five organizations across the state selected to provide high-impact, in-school tutoring through the TN ALL Corps Community Partner grant. The Tutor901 program will support 3,000 Shelby County students over two years with high-dosage, low-ratio reading tutoring to increase learning time, mitigate learning loss, and accelerate student achievement.
Adult Learning Program
Our Adult Learning Program provides small group tutoring to improve reading, writing, English language, and digital literacy skills. We’re always looking for volunteers to support this important program!
Collaborative Action
Collaborative action has organizations, working together, toward the common goal of literacy across the lifespan. We facilitate several literacy coalitions, including the Literacy Mid-South Out-of-School Time (OST) Network, the Network of Adult Basic Literacy and Education (N-ABLE), and the Early Literacy Consortium (ELC).
Community Impact
Community Impact seeks to connect and support proven literacy programs and partners that expand access to services and resources for all ages and lead to community-wide change.