Mission Statement:
The New Haven Tutoring Initiative is dedicated to increasing reading and math skills among New Haven students through high-quality tutoring, community engagement, and family support.
About Us:
Our initiative was founded by the City of New Haven, New Haven Public Schools, and several youth-serving agencies to address the challenges facing our students' education. We are committed to providing equitable access to educational opportunities for all children in our community.
PROGRAM DETAILS
The Tutoring Initiative launched a pilot program in the summer of 2023, and had the official launch for the academic school year in the fall of 2023. The Tutoring Initiative has three strategic focus areas:
- After School and Summer Programming: Implement high quality literacy and math enrichment and tutoring, based on scientifically proven instruction methods, through after school and summer programs.
- Community Engagement: Build a culture of commitment to reading and math across our city through broad community engagement and a powerful communication initiative. Use these tools to recruit volunteers and facilitate reading and math focused events engaging civic organizations, academic institutions, libraries, the business community, older students, seniors, faith institutions, arts organizations, and other partners.
- Parents & Families: Supply parents with information, training, and materials to support them in providing literacy
PROGRAM COMPONENTS
Youth agency partners will integrate reading and/or math tutoring activities into their traditional after school programming a minimum of 2 days per week for 60 minutes per day. Reading coaches from New Haven Reads and math tutors from New Haven Counts will work with youth agency staff to plan and facilitate activities, as well as to support implementation.
FOR PARENTS
Students registered for after school programs with the listed NHTI Partners may be eligible to participate in the Tutoring Initiative. Parents can also visit the websites of the listed partners directly to register for after school programs.
FOR VOLUNTEERS
Volunteers are needed to support reading and math tutoring during the academic school year. There is also a need for volunteers to help support community reading & math events and to donate gently used books.
PARTNERS:
Meet the passionate individuals behind our initiative, including our founders, administrators, and dedicated volunteers.
FUNDING SUPPORTER
City of New Haven, the office of Mayor Justin Elicker
This project is being supported, in whole or in part,
by Federal Award Identification Number SLFRP3212 awarded
to the City of New Haven by the U.S. Department of the Treasury.
LEAD PARTNERS
United Way of Greater New Haven
New Haven Counts
New Haven Reads
LEAP
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