Qualifications: Experience conducting programs for seniors with dementia. Familiarity with the surrounding community. Experience with program planning. The ability to work independently but in coordination with the Director.

General Responsibilities: Management and oversight of the ?Clubs? Program for individuals with early stage Alzheimer?s disease or other form of dementia. Supervise Program Specialist, Program Assistant and volunteers.

IONA SENIOR SERVICES is a nonprofit community organization in northwest Washington, DC dedicated to enabling older people to live with dignity and independence. IONA provides services and access to programs designed to meet the needs of seniors and their families. It is an effective working alliance of 33 churches and synagogues, 3 community-wide advisory councils, 40 professional staff and over 600 volunteers of all ages. IONA educates and advocates achieving a deeper understanding of and a strong community commitment to seniors.

Send resume and cover letter to:
IONA Senior Services
ATTN: Activities Coordinator Search
Fax: (202) 895-0244 or E-mail: personnel@iona.org

This forum will focus on heightening awareness of racial, class, and ethnic inequalities in our region's public school systems and their impact on the achievement gap. This forum will look specifically at the important role that quality teaching plays in reducing the gap. Teacher quality is proven to be key to a child's academic success. Furthermore, evidence suggests that the highest-quality teachers are not teaching in the schools that need them the most?schools with a large proportion of low-income students of color and immigrants.

The mission of The Community Foundation is to facilitate individual, family and organizational giving at all levels to create a permanent source of philanthropic capital to improve the quality of life in the metropolitan Washington region.

Register by calling Ben Murphy at (202) 263-4765 or email at bmurphy@cfncr.org. They encourage you to register soon, as space is limited.

Workshop Description
Adults with learning disabilities and attention problems have often gone undiagnosed for years, if not for an entire lifetime. At this workshop in the morning, Lab School staff will describe what learning disabilities and attention problems look like in adults. They will explain tests, including the WJIII Achievement Tests, that are used to diagnose these problems.

The afternoon will be devoted to demonstrating different strategies, specific methods and particular materials that can be used to teach reading to an adult with a learning disability.

DC LEARN's works with Washington D.C. literacy programs, learners, and supporters to strengthen adult, family, and children's literacy services, and present a strong, unified voice on the importance of literacy as an investment in the community.

FOR QUESTIONS OR ASSISTANCE CONTACT: lois.meyer@labschool.org or Telephone: 202-944- 2232

North Capitol Collaborative, Inc. (NCCI) is accepting proposals from community based organizations that serve residents within its service area. The NCCI service area consists of seven neighborhoods. These are LeDroit Park, Bloomingdale, Edgewood, Eckington, Truxton Circle/Bates, China Town, and Mt. Vernon Square.

NCCI will be awarding 5 grants in three categories: One grant for youth summer employment at $3,500; three individual grants for Summer Youth Mentoring at $1,000 a piece; and one grant for Summer Youth Tutoring at $1,500.

PROGRAM GOALS
1. To employ 3 youth in a summer job experience that will also develop leadership skills though a work ethic.
2. To engage minimally 4 youth in a summer mentoring program that is curriculum based.
3. To engage minimally 8-10 youth in summer tutoring courses that will improve student?s academic skills in Math and English.

The mission of the North Capitol Collaborative Healthy Families/Thriving Communities Collaborative (North Capitol Collaborative Inc) is to enhance the capacity of the North Capitol community to prevent and treat child abuse and neglect through development of formal and informal family focused community and family support systems. Collaborative activities will focus on building our innovative family/community strengths based model which supports the public/private partnership between the Child and Family Services Agency (CFSA) and the North Capitol community.

For more information, please call 202-588-1800 or 202-299-0031 or email us at communityengagement@north-cap.org.

If you would like to share any announcements from your organization or campus with the CoRAL Network community, send a brief blurb to kcarter@coralnetwork.org by close of business each Thursday for inclusion in the following Monday's Newsbits.

Please note that submissions MUST be about local events, news, opportunities and activities that are related to community affairs in the District of Columbia, Maryland, or Northern Virginia.