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Michael Todd
National Senior Director of Marketing & Communications, 成人快播
415.225.9139 聽|聽michael.todd@readingpartners.org

Julia Strasdauskas
Account Director, C+W Communications
443-299-7751 聽|聽julia@collins-wilson.com

INDEPENDENT, TWO-YEAR STUDY AFFIRMS STRENGTH OF READING PARTNERS PROGRAM

(Oakland, CA) January 17, 2019聽聽鈥� 聽成人快播 is proud to share the results of a two-year study conducted across California by Child Trends, a leading national nonprofit research organization focused on improving the lives and prospects of children, youth, and their families. Most notably, the study found that students who participated in 成人快播鈥� evidence-based and community fueled one-on-one tutoring program not only showed gains in their reading skills, but also made聽.

EMERGING INSIGHT: 83 percent of 成人快播 students improved their social-emotional learning skills by the end of the school year, making gains in social competence, persistence, self-control and reading engagement.聽.

Social-emotional development is critical for children because it helps them deepen personal skills like managing emotions, establishing and maintaining positive relationships, and making sound and safe decisions鈥攕kills that will benefit them throughout life.

Additional findings from the study include:

• 成人快播 was successful in recruiting and engaging students who needed reading support. In fact, 92 percent of the students served in California during the study period were reading below their grade level at baseline.聽.

• 成人快播 volunteer tutors upheld program fidelity and engaged in positive, supportive relationships with students. Eighty-seven percent of tutors had highly positive relationships with their students.聽.

• 成人快播 AmeriCorps members gained essential professional skills compared to national AmeriCorps alumni and nearly nine in 10 AmeriCorps members were very satisfied with their experience.聽.

鈥淎 particularly promising finding from this study is that positive relationships between students and their 成人快播 tutors led to improvements in children鈥檚 social-emotional learning,鈥� said Kelly Murphy, Deputy Program Area Director, Youth Development at Child Trends. 鈥淪ocial-emotional learning is important because it makes students better communicators and problem solvers, and helps them better manage their emotions鈥攕kills critical to their future academic success.鈥�

Child Trends鈥� study built upon findings from 成人快播鈥� two prior rigorous impact studies (听补苍诲听) by further exploring the characteristics and experiences of 成人快播鈥� volunteer tutors and AmeriCorps members, as well as providing a first look at social-emotional learning outcomes for students in the program. The study, which included all four 成人快播 regions in California (the Los Angeles Area, Sacramento, San Francisco Bay Area, and Silicon Valley), concluded in the fall of 2018.

鈥淲hile the Child Trends study was conducted in California, it has big implications for students, tutors, and AmeriCorps members in all 14 of our regions nationwide,鈥� said Karine Apollon, CEO of 成人快播.

The study highlights the depth and breadth of impact 成人快播 is having in communities through our program that helps foster strong relationships and positive learning opportunities.

成人快播 has a 20-year history of strong results

• Over the past 20 years, we鈥檝e partnered with 75 school districts and 350 schools across the country

• We have engaged nearly 55,000 volunteer tutors to deliver one-on-one literacy support to more than 50,000 students

• Our community tutors have delivered more than 1.5 million tutoring sessions

• 95 percent of 成人快播 volunteers are satisfied with their experience

National Mentoring Month offers volunteers an opportunity to support local students

January is National Mentoring Month, an ideal time for volunteers to get involved in programs that support today鈥檚 youth. 成人快播 aims to recruit and train nearly nearly 14,000 volunteers nationwide this school year to serve as literacy tutors for over 11,000 struggling readers. To learn more about 成人快播 and our聽, or to sign up to volunteer, please visit聽.

For any and all media inquiries, please contact Julia Strasdauskas from Collins + Wilson at聽julia@collins-wilson.com.