Project STEP-UP
Project STEP-UP is an award-winning volunteer tutoring and mentoring program that was founded in 1988. The program uses the talents of undergraduate, graduate, and professional school students from Case to provide tutoring and mentoring services to at-risk youth that attend Cleveland public schools. The program invites both volunteer and work-study students from Case to serve throughout the year. Project STEP-UP serves as the umbrella for three important literacy projects.
Church of the Covenant
The Church of the Covenant, in partnership with Case, Cleveland State University, John Carroll University and the Cleveland Metropolitan School District, sponsors Saturday tutoring for area youth between ages 6-17.
AmericaReads*AmericaCounts
The goal of AmericaReads is to ensure that all elementary school youth read independently and well by fourth grade. AmericaCounts supports the achievement of children in mathematics through ninth grade.
Case students may use their Work Study awards to tutor in local schools, library branches and community sites near the university. These sites include Mary M. Bethune, Buhrer, Central/Stokes Academy, Cleveland School of the Arts, John Hay, Joseph F. Landis, Mary B. Martin and Michael R. White Schools, and Langston Hughes Branch and East Cleveland Main Branch Libraries.
OhioReads UCLC
OhioReads is the Governor of the State of Ohio's grassroots initiative that aims to improve the reading skills of Ohio's elementary age children. The University Circle Literacy Corps is a CCEL sponsored network of student literacy volunteers that attend Case Western Reserve University, the Cleveland Institute of Art, the Cleveland Institute of Music, and the Ohio College of Podiatric Medicine. The UCLC members are eligible to serve at all STEP-UP sponsored sites.
For more information contact Janice Eatman-Williams.