Reach Out and Read Illinois
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Reach Out and Read Illinois News
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Reach Out and Read® prepares America’s youngest children to succeed in school by partnering with doctors to prescribe books and encourage families to read together. Reach Out and Read is based on a model that trains doctors and nurses to advise parents about the importance of reading aloud and to give books to children at well-child visits from six months to five years of age, with a special focus on children growing up in poverty. Pediatric waiting rooms become literacy rich environments, oftentimes with volunteer readers, where parents and children learn about the pleasure and techniques of looking at books together.
Reach Out and Read Illinois is a partnership with the Illinois Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics (ICAAP) and the Reach Out and Read National Center. Reach Out and Read Illinois strives to increase literacy and a love for books among children by ensuring that all Illinois children have access to books at an early age. Our goals are achieved by recruiting new Reach out and Read sites, providing technical assistance, coordinating provider training on literacy and how to promote reading, facilitating communication among existing sites, and assisting with fundraising to support book distribution.
Reach Out and Read Illinois Website
Reach Out and Read Illinois Web Log
Keep up to date with Illinois Medical Home with the Medical Home web log. News, events, resources, and more are constantly updated and available at:
http://illinoisaap.org/category/roril
You can get involved by making a monetary donation, donating new or gently used books to Reach Out and Read Illinois or by volunteering as a reader at a clinic. To donate to Reach Out and Read Illinois, please click here.
For more information, please contact:
Jessica Papp
Reach Out and Read Program Manager
1400 W. Hubbard, Suite 100
Chicago, IL 60642
Phone: 312/733-1026, ext 204
Fax: 312/733-1791
jpapp@illinoisaap.com
