The Center for Community Literacy
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Community Literacy & Writing Projects
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The Writing Mentor Project
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Literacy-Related Positions Available
Community Literacy & Writing Projects
The Writing Mentor Program is a collaboration between CSU students and at-risk community writers from The Turning Point Center for Youth and Family Development (a substance abuse recovery program) and the Larimer County Detention Center. The program pairs a CSU writing mentor with an aspiring writer in a "distance" mentoring relationship, adapting the model forwarded by the Prison Writing unit of the PEN American writers' organization for local populations. Community writers are encouraged to develop their basic and creative literacy skills through individual mentorship and collaboration; CSU students develop their skills as mentors and participate in challenging negative stereotypes about prisoners as they work to increase access to literacy programming for at-risk populations. The project will culminate annually with a collaborative publication co-designed by the mentors and community writers and will be circulated locally.
To get involved, contact the Center for
Community Literacy
at 491-7251 or clc@colostate.edu.