Florida Libraries as Workforce Recovery/Social Service Referral January Sessions

Florida Libraries as Workforce Recovery/Social Service Referral

Schedule of online events:

Wednesday, January 7, 10:00 a.m. Eastern

Florida Libraries as Workforce Recovery Using FEL Resources

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Description: As part of the Florida Libraries as Workforce Recovery month, this one hour webinar will focus on how Career Transitions and e-books from the Gale Virtual Reference Library can help your library with workforce recovery efforts.

Presenter: Stacey Knibloe, Customer Education Specialist, Cengage Learning

Friday, January 16, 2:00 p.m. Eastern

Right Service at the Right Time: Overview, Current Usage, Promotion and Future Development

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Description: Right Service at the Right Time is a decision-making website that walks the public through a series of simple questions in order to connect them with the E-Government and social services they need.

Connecting Learners to Social Services

As you start the school year with adult learners, you may need to refer them to other service providers. This service provider resource available across the state.

The Orange County Public Library received a Library Service and Technology Act Grant to develop this and expand it across the state.  United Way Providers are good resources for referrals.


Providing connections to social and community services are an important part of a successful volunteer adult literacy program, and these services are becoming harder and harder to access.  As Florida continues to close government offices, libraries and information and referral provider are filling the void.

Find out if you have an Information and Referral provider or the location of  your closest library  to learn about your community's social services.  All volunteer literacy programs should share this information to their tutors and students with-in workshops and via tools like Facebook, Twitter, E-mail and more.