Creek County Literacy Program is hosting a Holiday Craft Fair Nov. 20-21st to help fund repairs for their building.
Funds from this year’s craft sale will help replace the closers on the doors in the building. These aging door closers are allowing the heavy wooden doors to slam shut, posing a risk to our employees, volunteers, and patrons. Six heavy duty door closers are needed, as well as door stops for all the interior doors.
Vendors may email info@creekliteracy.org to receive the vendor form. Doors will be open 2-7pm on Friday and 9 to 2pm on Saturday, and vendors are welcome to set up Thursday, Nov. 19, any time from 9:30am to 4pm.
Our mission is to help every child and adult in Creek County to read, through tutoring, technology, and health literacy outreaches.
Creek County Literacy Program is a non-profit organization that trains adults to become volunteer literacy tutors, and then matches those tutors with children (1st and 2nd grades,) youth (grades 3-12,) or adult learners to help them learn basic reading skills, practice for Equivalency tests, and more. They also host workshops for various literacies, such as health literacy, financial literacy, and English Language Literacy.
- Twenty percent of adults in Creek County 18 to 24 years old do not have a high school diploma.
- Ten percent of adults in Creek County 25 years of age and older do not have a high school diploma.
- Twelve percent of Oklahoma adults – more than 400,000 – are functionally illiterate.
- Eighty-five percent of juveniles who interact with the juvenile court systems are functionally
illiterate.
For more information, please call 918-224-9647.
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Information about being a vendor can be found here.
About Creek County Literacy Program
For 35 years CCLP has worked to improve the quality of life in our community by promoting and achieving literacy. One in five adults 18-24 years old in our county do not have a high school diploma. One in ten adults 25 years of age and older in our county do not have a high school diploma. Forty-one percent of students kindergarten through third grade in our county receive reading remediation. Through extensive outreach and collaboration with a network of community partners, CCLP strives to ensure that individuals who need to improve their literacy skills receive the help they need. CCLP’s Mission is to help every child and adult in Creek County to read through tutoring, technology and health literacy outreaches. CCLP’s Vision is for every child and adult in Creek County to read proficiently.