
Youth Literacy Mentoring is a comprehensive education based program designed to address the literacy gap among students K – 6 who cannot read at grade level.
Youth Literacy Mentoring partners with schools and community organizations to provide partnership development, program management, and implementation funding.
The numbers
At UIF we love to keep track of everything we do, so it’s only fair we share some of the good we are doing within our community. Since 2019, our Literacy mentors have helped more than 1,500 student read at grade level. Check out our latest stats for 2021.
Students who completed the Literacy Mentoring Curriculum increased their:
- reading proficiency by at least one grade level–97%
- reading proficiency by more than 2 grade levels–17%