¿Tiene su hijo(a) dificultades con la lectura o con la escritura? Habrá ayuda disponible este verano de Read Write Discover (RWD), un programa de tutoría de lectura en la Biblioteca East San José Carnegie.   El programa es gratuito y está dirigido a los estudiantes que tienen problemas con la lectura, o cuyas familias enfrentan barreras de idioma en sus comunidades. Los estudiantes de la escuela secundaria se capacitarán ayudar a los niños en los grados 1-8 en la lectura y la escritura.

La sesión comienza con una orientación para la familia en miércoles, 12 de junio 2013 de 11:00 am - 1:00 pm. Los tutores trabajan con los mismos estudiantes cada semana los miércoles y jueves de 11:00 am - 12:30 pm en determinadas semanas durante los meses de junio, julio y agosto.

Favor de visitar la mesa de información de RWD en una de las fechas siguientes para saber más:

viernes, 7 de junio, 3:00 – 6:00 pm   
sábado, 8 de junio, 10:00 am - 3:00 pm

Si usted tiene alguna pregunta acerca de este programa, favor de email rwdiscover@gmail.com.

Does your child have difficulties with reading or writing? Help will be available this summer with Read Write Discover (RWD), a mentoring program at the Biblioteca Latinoamericana. The program is free, and is aimed at students who have trouble reading, or whose families face language barriers in their communities. High school students will be trained to help children in grades 1-8 with reading and writing.

The session begins with an orientation for families on Monday, June 10, 2013 from 11:00 - 1:00 PM. Tutors work with the same students each week on Mondays and Tuesdays from 11:00 am - 12:30 pm on specific weeks during June, July and August.

Please visit the Read Write Discover (RWD) information desk on one of the dates below to find out more!

Monday, June 3, 3:00 - 6:00 pm
Tuesday, June 4, 5:00 – 8:00 pm
Wednesday, June 5, 4:00 – 6:00 pm

If you have any questions about this program, please email rwdiscover@gmail.com.

What is it that makes a person strike out at a child repeatedly by word or hand? What does such consistent maltreatment do to the mind, body and soul of that child? How can such acts of power abuse be prevented? What can be done to intervene? What can be done to ease the effects as the child becomes an adult. Before we leave April completely behind us, April is recognized as National Child Abuse Prevention Month.  Listed below are resources to respond to those questions posed above.

Contact Information:

• Immediate Emergency Reporting  -  call 911
• How to Report Suspected Child Abuse - San José Police Department
• Non-Emergency Reporting – Child Abuse and Neglect Hotline

Definitions of Child Abuse:

• From Medline Plus  (Also available: articles, latest news, diagnosis, symptoms and prevention) 

• Child Abuse - Stanford University School of Medicine
• Child Abuse Council of Santa Clara County
• Recognizing Child Abuse -  from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services – Child Welfare Information Gateway  (Recognizing abuse in children, parent and parent – child relations)

Resources at SJ Library:

• Articles – Child Abuse in the United States
• Articles – Child Abusers
• Articles – Child Abuse Victims – Long Term Effects
• Children’s  Collection – Child Abuse
• Fiction titles – Child Abuse
• Nonfiction titles – Child Abuse Prevention
• King Library Display: Stories of a Girl, Empowering Youth to End Human Trafficking

Additional Resources:
 

• National Child Traumatic Stress Network 

Statistics:

During FFY 2011, throughout the United States there were 676,569 reported cases of child abuse and neglect. It was found that approximately nine out of every one thousand children in the U.S.  were victims of abuse. Babies, under the age of one, suffered the highest rate of victimization. From the data collected for 2011, it is estimated that 1,570 children died from abuse or neglect that year alone.

• National and State Child Abuse and Neglect Statistics – U.S. Department of Health and Human Services – Child Welfare Information Gateway  (Included: Statistics on victims and perpetrators, deaths from abuse)
• National Children’s Alliance

Need to Talk to Someone?
Make an Appointment: 

• Lawyers in the Library – 1-408-808-2382
• Social Workers in the Library – 1-408-808-2350

Muchas familias y comunidades en San Jose tienen problemas con pandillas. Hay muchas perspectivas diferentes sobre las razones por que los jóvenes se envuelven con pandillas y los mejores métodos de prevención e intervención. Una manera de entender este asunto es por leer una variedad de libros. Hemos creádo una bibliografía de recursos disponible en la biblioteca para ayudarle a encontrar material útil.

Autobiografía

• La Vida Loca: el testimonio de un pandillero en Los Angeles por Luis J. Rodriguez
• Sueños del Lado Este por Art Rodriguez
• Clamor en el Barrio por Freddie y Ninfa Garcia

Libros Informativos

• Bandas Juveniles: perspectivas teóricas por Jose Lorenzo Encinas Garza
• Todo que necesitas saber sobre pandillas por Evan Stark

Novelas

• Rebeldes por S. E. Hinton
• Escorpiones por Walter Dean Myers

Para Niños

• No tiene que ser así: una historia del barrio por Luis J. Rodriguez