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Providence Public Library Receives Grant from IMLS
By Donna DiMichele | May 9, 2016
Providence Public Library has received a three-year $530,000 federal Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) grant to create a high impact workforce development program model to serve 600+ local teens.
Planning is started through the Library’s Education Department with teen programs slated to begin in the fall of 2016. The Learning in Libraries project will support teens with free, accessible, high-quality competency-based learning opportunities, leading to digital credentials, academic credit, exposure to the world of work, and entry into education and career pathways. The four goals of the project are to:
- Establish the Library as the backbone organization in the collective impact for education and workforce development for teens in Rhode Island;
- Develop youth-driven and-centered competency-based programming responsive to the school and community context that will create, expand and connect teens to workforce development opportunities;
- Create a shared, scalable and replicable framework that harnesses library collections and resources, community partners, and mentoring that is driven by student interest and aligned to education and workforce development standards with measurable outcomes; and
- Build a data-driven case of the Library’s critical role in education and workforce development for teens.
Karisa Tashjian, Director of Education and Shannon Lake, Teen Educator/Librarian, will be leading the project.
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