Our Mission Statement

To enhance literary skills and life experiences for people of all ages, adults with learning disabilities, and persons with special-needs .

Read With Me Pittsburgh is a community based literacy and developmental learning social services provider. Read With Me mission supports our most vulnerable neighbors through cognitive and developmental learning and day programming. We strive to provide engaging and educational literacy and read aloud workshops for learners of all ages including adults and seniors that promotes confidence in ones ability to learn, encourages socialization, self-awareness and personal growth.

Read With Me! PGH :

‪Contact us at:

Phone: (412) 573-9625

Email : ReadWithMePittsburgh@gmail.com‬

"I was completely drawn in by the presentation, and I could see that our students were as well."

-Mary Butler

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Our Story

Read With Me! Pittsburgh started their learning sessions in 2016 in the community room at Carnegie Library Pittsburgh -Woods Run on the Northshore. The community room was a safe space for social service providers, and support staff to gather with their clients and share books, stories and personal life experiences for enlightenment and growth, one-on-one support, whole group learning and read aloud group activities.

Read With Me Pittsburgh is a member of the One Northside Education Committee.

Everyone loves to hear a good story. Everyone does not posses the ability to read and comprehend the written word enough the navigate the world around them. I remember my mother reading to me as a child enabling me to use my imagination.

The ability to read allows one to live life with confidence; having the ability to interpret the world around them on a personal level. Read With Me! strives to empower our most vulnerable neighbors. Read With Me! is a developmental reading program for enhanced cognition and memorialization.

Functional illiteracy is defined as having math, reading, or language skills below a 4th grade level. At this level, people may struggle to read a bus schedule, medicine bottle or job application.

-Our goal is to provide developmental programming that is educational, enlightening and nurturing.

” Bridging the gap in literacy and developmental learning”

Julie Cruz with published author in residency, Dede Rittman. She is the author of “Grady Gets Glasses.”

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