Parentis Foundation is the charitable affiliate of Parentis Health. Our flagship program Experience Corps Orange County is an intergenerational literacy intervention program. Parentis Foundation changes lives by positively and significantly impacting both our older adult volunteers and the future generation of young readers. Experience Corps OC is the Orange County affiliate of AARP Foundation Experience Corps.
Our Mission: Parentis Foundation seeks to address a major contributor to poverty – the inability of children to read proficiently by the end of third grade. Through an intergenerational approach, we provide both older adult volunteer tutor/mentors and children with opportunities to enrich their lives, build self-confidence, and share a sense of purpose through literacy.
Our Purpose: By pairing kindergarten through third-grade children with highly trained volunteer tutors, we significantly improve the literacy skills of children at risk of not reading fluently by fourth grade, while simultaneously providing meaningful opportunities for older adults who serve as volunteer literacy tutor/mentors in after-school youth organizations throughout Orange County.
Our Vision: Guide the next generation of readers. Mentor future leaders.
Our Core Values: Responsibility, Respect, Knowledge, and Care.
