The Governor's Workforce Board has released a Grant Solicitation for Real Skills for Youth partnerships on December 4, 2018.

The purpose of this Grant Solicitation is for qualified organizations to form strategic partnerships to develop and implement high-quality paid work-based learning experiences and college and career readiness programming for youth in Summer 2019 and academic year 2019-20. The goal of the Real Skills for Youth program is to prepare youth for success in college and career through meaningful career exposure and exploration of potential career paths and their on-ramps, skill-building with an emphasis on essential and professional skills, and supported work-based learning experiences that allow participants to apply learning in a real-world setting. The Real Skills for Youth program, started in 2018, builds off the long-standing Summer Youth Employment program to enhance and scale work-based learning opportunities for youth, and more tightly connect work-based learning to year-round career readiness programming, by supporting partnerships among schools, youth-serving organizations, industry, and others.

Applications are due on Friday, February 1, 2019 at 4:00pm.

Awardees will be announced in April 2019.

Awards will be made on a competitive basis consistent with the terms of the Grant Solicitation.

A pre-proposal conference will be scheduled for Friday, December 14, 2018 1:30-3:00pm at the Department of Labor and Training Room 73-1. Attendance is strongly recommended; please send no more than two representatives from your organization and RSVP to caitlin.downing@dlt.ri.gov

EmbraceRace is a multiracial community of parents, teachers, experts, and other caring adults who support each other to meet the challenges that race poses to our children, families, and communities. Visit www.embracerace.org for tip sheets, book lists, and the free monthly web series "Talking Race & Kids." Of particular interest to youth services librarians:

Finding and Reading Great Stories For and With Kids with Katie Potter, Lee & Low Books Literacy Specialist

The New England Library Leadership Symposium (NELLS) is now accepting applications for 2019.The purpose of this five-day intensive training program is to foster the mentoring and development of leaders in state and regional library associations. NELLS was created through a cooperative effort of the New England Library Association and all six New England state library associations. NELLS has been held six times since its inception in 2003, most recently in 2017.

Apply Today!

NELLS 2019 is taking place August 12th – 16th, 2019 at the Rolling Ridge Retreat and Conference Center, North Andover, MA. The tuition/housing fee for 2019 is TBD.

**To learn more about the 2019 NELLS event, please click HERE

Registration is now open for Power Up: A Conference in Leadership for Youth Services Managers and Staff! The conference is scheduled for March 28-29th, 2019 in beautiful Madison, Wisconsin.

Join us for a day and a half conference filled with presentations from leaders in youth services, with an opening keynote address by Andrew Medlar (Director of BookOps for New York Public Library), and a closing keynote address by Dr.

Sarah Park Dahlen (Associate Professor, MLIS program, St. Catherine University).

Ten scholarships are available, which will fully cover the conference registration fee ($300) for each winner! Scholarship applications are due by January 11. Please see the conference website for more information.

Full schedule, registration, scholarship info, and other details available

here: https://ischool.wisc.edu/continuing-education/power-up/2019

Please contact Meredith Lowe with any questions, mclowe@wisc.edu or 608-890- 0364.

Latino Books Month • RI, initiated by Rhode Island Latino Arts and now in its sixth year in Rhode Island, promotes books by and for Latinos.This month-long celebration encourages librarians, teachers, educators and booksellers to promote books written by and for Latinos and it encourages communities to read books in both English and Spanish. This coming year’s project is a RILA partnership project with Raising Readers in RI & Pawtucket Public Library.

Over the summer, the 2019 Rhode Island Latino Books Month Nominees were announced and are now available online on the Rhode Island Latino Arts website. This is a great opportunity to promote the booklist for students in kindergarten through 12 grade. Just click on the link to see the nominees for each grade level below:

http://www.rilatinoarts.org/LatinoBooksMonth.html

How to Participate:

Read at least three (3) books from the titles nominated then vote for your favorite. Voting will take place at participating schools, libraries and online. The winning titles will be announced on Friday June 1, 2019.

GREAT NEWS: This year were are providing FREE Copies of the 2019 Latino Books Month Nominees (While Supplies Last):

If you are a teacher or librarian who would like to host a book club with your students or read them out loud to them let us know. We will supply free copies of the books for all the grade levels K-12 with the agreement that the students vote online or in person at a participating library. This is made possible in partnership with Raising Readers of Rhode Island.

Libraries and Schools: Participating libraries and schools will also receive a poster (size: 11x17) that shows all the book titles and pencils to distribute to young readers (while supplies last). Materials are distributed through the LORI Library delivery system for both public libraries and schools.

Downloadable Materials: Materials are available online for printing including a poster, flyer, spine labels (for your library books), bookmarks and paper ballot (tracking chart).

eBooks: The 2019 RI Latino Books Nominees are now available electronically on the eZone. Just use your library card to access the eZone and download the electronic book through your public libraries catalog completely free with your card.

Here is a link: https://riezone.overdrive.com/library/kids/

Vote Online: We have added an option to submit your favorite book online. Before you vote online, we recommend that you download a hard copy of the ballot to have on hand while you read each book. Remember, deadline to vote online is Friday, May 31, 2019. We will announce the winner the next day. Voting will open in January 2019.

Teachers: Please submit any paper ballots to Maria Cotto no later than May 30th or email mcotto@pawtucketlibrary.org

JOIN OUR TEAM

Lastly, we are working on establishing a committee to assist in planning and organizing future activities. If you a teacher or a librarian who currently works with kids in grades K-12 and are interested in being on the committee — please contact Maria Cotto at mcotto@pawtucketlibrary.org. We have some very exciting activities on the burner for next year, focusing on Latino books, authors and illustrators, and we promise you will not be disappointed!

If you have any questions, please feel free to email at mcotto@pawtucketlibrary.org or call 401-725-3714 x208.

Walmart Community Grant (12/31)

YALSA/Dollar General Summer Learning Resources Grant (1/1/19)

YALSA/Dollar General Teen Summer Intern Grant (1/1/19)

Power Up 2019 Conference Scholarship (1/11/19)

Real Skills for Youth Grant (2/1/19)

Ezra Jack Keats Mini-Grant (3/31/18)

Bank of America Foundation Grants (varies)

NELLS 2019 (3/15 application deadline, 8/12 - 8/16)

Serving Refugee and Immigrant Families Webinar (4/9)

NERCTL One-Day Conference Metheuen, MA (3/29)

December
Hour of Code (December 3-9)

February
World Read Aloud Day (February 1)
Take Your Child to the Library Day (February 2)

Registration for all OLIS fall 2018 continuing education programs is now open. Check the OLIS CE calendar.

Email: danielle.margarida@olis.ri.gov
Website: http://www.olis.ri.gov/
Location: 1 Capitol Hill Providence, RI 02908
Phone: 401-574-9309
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/olisri
Twitter: @olisri