Home > Events and Programs > Special Events >Detroit Reads Special Events Events and Programs Events Exhibits Children and Young Adults Downloads     Home > Events and Programs > Special Events >Detroit Reads Special Events About Detroit Reads Literacy Tools at the Detroit Public Library Detroit Literacy Council Knight Foundation Initiative Technology Literacy & Career Center @ the Detroit Public Library Detroit Reads Contacts DETROIT LITERACY COUNCIL In May of 2009, the Detroit Library Commission established a Detroit Literacy Council, with the charge of advising the Library on literacy issues and on programs and services that support and provide literacy development opportunities for Detroit residents. The 21-member Literacy Council is comprised of leaders from business, community, government, and literacy service providers, who came together in recognition that many Detroiters face literacy challenges that limit their ability to lead economically and socially secured lives. This group’s purpose is to focus their collective talents toward erasing illiteracy from the City of Detroit The City of Detroit will be strengthened when every resident is able to successfully complete an employment application, to read and understand personal medication directions, to assist a child with homework assignments, or to fully participate in the electoral process. Anyone who can read can teach someone else to read. If you cannot commit time to teach someone to read, perhaps you could contribute funds to hire someone to help teach our children and adults who are literacy challenged. Detroit Literacy Council Resolution Members of the Detroit Literacy Council Join the Campaign to Erase illiteracy in Detroit! LEARN TO READ TEACH SOMEONE TO READ SPONSOR A NEW READER Call 313-481-1362 Email – Read@detroitpubliclibrary.org           The Detroit Public Library. All rights reserved. 2006