The Literacy  department provides many wonderful services at our Library sites, but through our Outreach programs, we are also out in the community.  Outreach staff drive our Bookmobile, provide in-services and trainings to organizations and social service agencies, assist in recruiting new Literacy volunteers and adult learners, staff booths at resource fairs, provide storytelling programs, and respond to many requests from the community.  Please contact us for more information regarding Literacy Outreach at (760) 747-2233.

 

Literacy Services supported the Red Cross Blood Drive at El Tigre Market.

 

Clifford the Big Red Dog Event

Storytellers Provide a Welcome Relief
During Firestorm 2003 in San Diego County, Literacy staff brought the bookmobile to one of the evacuation shelters where children heard stories and received free books while their parents huddled around TV screens awaiting word about whether their homes had burned.
Read North County Times article

Shelter Outreach project
Staff created relationships with several Escondido women and children's shelter programs and brought books to the children, storytelling times, as well as gave information to the women about library and literacy services. Several of the women have since become adult learners in our Literacy programs.

Niki de Saint Phalle Sculpture Garden
Literacy outreach staff were on hand for the opening of the world-renowned sculpture garden. The bookmobile was there as well as storytelling staff sharing stories from author de Saint Phalle's picture book.