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<p style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Please see below for a new opportunity from ALA's Public Programs Office.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">To read the following announcement online, or to share via social media,
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F4E79">v</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">isit </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F4E79"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="http://programminglibrarian.org/articles/apply-now-truth-racial-healing-transformation-great-stories-club">http://programminglibrarian.org/articles/apply-now-truth-racial-healing-transformation-great-stories-club</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">--Sarah, ALA Public Programs Office<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">ALA invites libraries to apply for a pilot of the <a href="http://apply.ala.org/greatstories" target="_blank" title="http://apply.ala.org/greatstories
Cmd+Click or tap to follow the link"><span style="color:#E42328">Truth,
Racial Healing & Transformation (TRHT) Great Stories Club (GSC)</span></a>, a thematic reading and discussion program series that will engage underserved teens through literature-based library outreach programs and racial healing work.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">The TRHT GSC is supported by a </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#50473D"><a href="http://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2017/10/ala-receives-11-million-wk-kellogg-foundation-reading-and-discussion-model" target="_blank" title="http://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2017/10/ala-receives-11-million-wk-kellogg-foundation-reading-and-discussion-model
Cmd+Click or tap to follow the link"><span style="color:#E42328">grant
from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation</span></a>.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">An expansion of ALA’s long-standing </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#50473D"><a href="https://apply.ala.org/greatstories" target="_blank"><span style="color:#E42328">GSC
program model</span></a>, </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">the TRHT GSC will feature books that explore the coming-of-age experience for historically marginalized youth. The TRHT GSC is a part of the Kellogg
Foundation’s</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#50473D"> <a href="http://healourcommunities.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#E42328">Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation</span></a> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">efforts,
a comprehensive, national and community-based process to plan for and bring about transformational and sustainable change, and to address the historic and contemporary effects of racism.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#50473D"><a href="https://apply.ala.org/greatstories/guidelines" target="_blank"><span style="color:#E42328">Visit the project guidelines</span></a> </span></b><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">and</span></b><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#50473D"> <a href="https://apply.ala.org/greatstories" target="_blank"><span style="color:#E42328">apply
online</span></a> </span></b><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">by February 16, 2018. Potential applicants may </span></b><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#50473D"><a href="http://programminglibrarian.org/learn/apply-now-truth-racial-healing-transformation-great-stories-club" target="_blank"><span style="color:#E42328">register
for a free Jan. 12 webinar </span></a></span></b><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">to learn more about the pilot program and its requirements.</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#50473D">U</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">p to 25 selected libraries will work with small groups of teens to read and discuss three titles
--selected by librarians and humanities scholars to resonate with reluctant readers facing difficult challenges like detention, incarceration, addiction, academic probation, poverty, and homelessness -- on the theme “Growing Up Brave on the Margins.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Applicant libraries must either be located within an organization that serves under-resourced, troubled or at-risk teens (e.g., alternative high schools, juvenile detention facilities) or work in partnership with an organization that serves that teenage population.
For examples of acceptable partner organizations, visit the <a href="https://apply.ala.org/greatstories/resources" target="_blank"><span style="color:#E42328">TRHT GSC Resources page</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#50473D">.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Participating libraries must host at least three book discussion programs and at least one interactive racial healing session, led by a racial healing practitioner familiar with
the Kellogg Foundation’s TRHT framework and racial healing approach. Programming must take place between May and October 2018. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Featured titles will include </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#50473D"><a href="https://www.booklistonline.com/Ms-Marvel-No-Normal-G-Willow-Wilson/pid=7218069" target="_blank"><span style="color:#E42328">“Ms.
Marvel Volume 1: No Normal”</span></a> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">by G. Willow Wilson and Adrian Alphona;</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#50473D"> <a href="https://www.booklistonline.com/The-Hate-U-Give-Angie-Thomas/pid=8567474" target="_blank"><span style="color:#E42328">“The
Hate U Give”</span></a> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">by Angie Thomas; and</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#50473D"> <a href="https://www.booklistonline.com/March-Book-One-John-Lewis/pid=6009983" target="_blank"><span style="color:#E42328">“MARCH:
Book One”</span></a> b</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">y John Lewis and Andrew Aydin, illustrated by Nate Powell.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Participating libraries will receive: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">11 copies of each of the three selected titles (10 to gift to participants, one for the discussion leader/library collection)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">A $300 programming stipend<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Access to a racial healing practitioner who is engaged with the Kellogg Foundation’s TRHT framework and racial healing approach<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Travel and accommodation expenses paid for one library staff member to attend a project orientation workshop, April 19-20, 2018, in Chicago; training will cover humanities content for the selected
titles, best practices for leading discussion groups, an overview of the TRHT process, and an interactive session led by a racial healing practitioner<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Additional training, resources and support<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">The TRHT Great Stories Club will be administered by ALA’s Public Programs Office in partnership with ALA’s Office for Diversity, Literacy and Outreach Services.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Sarah Ostman<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Communications Manager<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">ALA Public Programs Office<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F4E79"><a href="mailto:sostman@ala.org">sostman@ala.org</a>
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