{"id":9538,"date":"2020-12-02T15:37:45","date_gmt":"2020-12-02T15:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tnpta.org\/?page_id=9538"},"modified":"2021-09-29T19:10:04","modified_gmt":"2021-09-29T19:10:04","slug":"web-portal-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/tnpta.org\/index.php\/web-portal-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Educational Resources"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

Educational Resource Links for partners, adult education, jobs, financial literacy, and literacy<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Tennessee PTA Collaborating Organizations<\/strong>
Kid Central TN
<\/em>One stop shop for all things parents and children: Health, Education, Development\u00a0Guides, Family Support, Tennessee Services. Search here first for anything about families, parenting, and children. (This is a one-stop website.)
www.kidcentraltn.com<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Learning Heroes<\/em>
Our partner through National PTA providing parenting information four times a year.\u00a0
\u200bbealearninghero.org\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\r\n

GoGuardian<\/em>
Our partner through National PTA providing mental health resources.\u00a0
\u200bgoguardian.com<\/a><\/p>\r\n

Tennessee Department of Education<\/em>
We partner with the TDOE on the Parent Council and in other programs such as state report cards, reading, and advocacy.
tn.gov\/education.html<\/a>
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Reading 360<\/a>
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 TCAP Portal<\/a>
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 State Report Card<\/a>
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 ESSER Funds<\/a>

Literacy websites<\/strong>
Adult Literacy Program \u2013 Cumberland Adult Reading Council<\/em>
www.cumberlandliteracy.org<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

The Cumberland Adult Reading Council is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization that helps adults to read and write. We also help adults learn English as a second language. We are the only program in Cumberland County Tennessee offering free one-on-one tutoring for adults (18 and over).<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Chattanooga Basics<\/em>
www.chattanoogabasics.org<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

The Chattanooga Basics are five evidence-based parenting and care-giving principles that can benefit children from all backgrounds. A broad range of Chattanooga organizations and community members will soon be helping to ensure that every parent and caregiver is fully supported in using the Chattanooga Basics practices in everyday life. The basics are maximize love, talk-sing-point, count-group-compare, explore through movement, and read\/discuss stories.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Dollar General Literacy Foundation<\/em>
dgliteracy.org<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

More than 30 million adults in the United States read at the lowest level of literacy.\u00a0The Dollar General Literacy Foundation was established in 1993 in honor of Dollar General’s co-founder, J.L. Turner, who was functionally illiterate with only a third grade education.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Dolly Parton Imagination Library<\/em>
imaginationlibrary.com\/usa\/<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a program that mails out children a free book each month from birth up until 5 years old. These are high-quality books that are chosen by experts in the education and writing field and are based on the child’s age.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Literacy Mid-South<\/em>
www.literacymidsouth.org<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Our vision is 100% literacy in the Mid-South. Literacy Mid-South (LMS) is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide literacy resources to learners of all ages and backgrounds. Somewhere between 20% to 30% of adults in the Memphis metro area are functionally illiterate. That means more than just unemployment \u2014 their minds are unused and their dreams are unrealized.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Ride for Reading<\/em>
www.rideforreading.org<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

\u00a0To help children in low-income areas become healthy and literate<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Read 20<\/em>
read20.org<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

READ 20 is a Hamilton County public-private partnership whose mission is to create a community of readers by promoting the importance of reading with children at least 20 minutes a day or more.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Financial Literacy websites<\/strong>
Junior Achievement<\/em>
www.juniorachievement.org<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

JA’s volunteer-delivered, kindergarten-12th grade programs foster work-readiness, entrepreneurship and financial literacy skills, and use experiential learning to inspire students to dream big and reach their potential.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

La Paz Chattanooga<\/em>
www.lapazchattanooga.org<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

The mission of La Paz is to guide, connect and strengthen Chattanooga’s Latino\u00a0community through Advocacy, Education, and Inclusion. One of the earliest needs that La Paz recognized in its history was the importance of educating the growing Latino population of the area on ways to thrive in a new cultural environment. Through culturally specific programming in the Latino Family Resource Center, La Paz helps its Latino clients learn how to live and be a part of the local community.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Jobs\/Careers websites<\/strong>
Tennessee Labor & Workforce Development<\/em>
www.jobs4tn.gov<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Search for jobs in Tennessee.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

EngineerGirl<\/em>
https:\/\/www.engineergirl.org<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

The EngineerGirl website is designed to bring national attention to the exciting opportunities that engineering represents for girls and women. \u00a0Why girls and women? \u00a0Because despite an increase in female participation in many\u00a0traditionally male-dominated professions such as medicine and law, women remain grossly under-represented in engineering.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Tennessee Electronic Library<\/em>
tntel.tnsos.org<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Free access to great resources for Tennesseans. The Tennessee Electronic Library (TEL) is an online library with\u00a0access to career information<\/em><\/strong>, magazine-journal-newspaper articles, essays, practice tests, e-books, primary source materials, and more! TEL is available free of charge, 24\/7 from any computer with access to the internet.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Adult Education websites<\/strong>
Tennessee Reconnect<\/em>
www.tnreconnect.gov<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Whether it\u2019s time to get serious about returning to school or you\u2019re starting to plan for your undergrad adventure, we\u2019ve got you covered. Tennessee Reconnect is an initiative to help more of our state\u2019s adults enter higher education to gain new skills, advance in the workplace, and fulfill lifelong dreams of completing a degree or credential.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

GED (HiSET)<\/em>
www.tn.gov\/workforce\/jobs-and-education\/ae\/aer\/hiset.html<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

You never finished high school, nor are you attending another school.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Drive to 55 Alliance<\/em>
driveto55.org<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Tennessee\u2019s new Drive to 55 Alliance is an active and rapidly growing alliance of private sector partners, leaders and non-profits working together in support of the state\u2019s Drive to 55 initiative to equip 55 percent of Tennesseans with a college degree or certificate by 2025.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Mentoring websites<\/strong>
YMCA Reach and Rise Group Mentoring of Middle Tennessee<\/em>
ymcamidtn.org\/<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

YMCA Reach and Rise group mentoring program is designed to be a safe, healthy, & meaningful therapeutic place for 6 mentee children to talk about life issues in a group of their peers, with 2 adult volunteer mentors in each group. The program includes a matching system to pair a mentor to a mentee group, as well as activities and goals to achieve throughout the program. This program helps build a better future for youth by matching them with two adult mentors.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Chattanooga Mentoring Collective<\/em>
unitedwaycha.org\/get-involved\/mentorchatt\/<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

The Chattanooga Mentoring Collective is partnering with The National Mentoring\u00a0Partnership, at\u00a0www.mentoring.org<\/a>. MENTOR is the unifying champion for\u00a0expanding quality youth mentoring relationships in the United States.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Educational Resource Links for partners, adult education, jobs, financial literacy, and literacy Tennessee PTA Collaborating OrganizationsKid Central TNOne stop shop for all things parents and children: Health, Education, Development\u00a0Guides, Family Support, Tennessee Services. Search here first for anything about families, parenting, and children. (This is a one-stop website.)www.kidcentraltn.com Learning HeroesOur partner through National PTA providing…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9538","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tnpta.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tnpta.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tnpta.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tnpta.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tnpta.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9538"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/tnpta.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9940,"href":"https:\/\/tnpta.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9538\/revisions\/9940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tnpta.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}