Johnnetta comes to Reach Out and Read with a distinguished career that includes nonprofit, education, and public health sector experience. She held leadership and teaching positions of increasing responsibility and complexity for nearly two decades. As a result, she brings a wealth of knowledge to her new role, which includes strategic leadership, quality management, project management, and continuous improvement.…

Announcing the release of an OpEd The Risks and Rewards of Sharing Power With Your Community, in the Chronicle of Philanthropy, documenting an approach taken by the

Early Relational Health Coordinating Hub to “ensure that community members are given opportunities for participation and decision making equal to the so-called traditional experts.” …

Native Americans have endured a history of violence and displacement. That history helped drive American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) children today to have the lowest high school graduation rates and college entry rates of any minority group in the U.S.

The delivery of Reach Out and Read at our 222 AI/AN medical sites (where we serve children at 133,500 well-child visits a year) hits an intersection of alleviating health disparities, addressing social justice, and providing a pandemic response.…

Reach Out and Read and Scholastic are proud to announce this year’s Judy Newman Book Award will be I Am Enough by Grace Byers.

The annual award highlights one book that resonates with families and encourages them to read aloud together.…

Vision, Values, Voices: A Networked Approach to Supporting Communities

Last month, the Reach Out and Read Leadership Conference, Vision, Values, Voices: A Networked Approach to Supporting Communities, was held in Madison, WI. This is the first time the network has come together in person in three years, and we are thankful for the opportunity to once again be able to do so.…

Reach Out and Read sits at the intersection of health and education and plays a unique and vital role in a public health framework that addresses the disparities in an existing continuum of family support. We have deep connections across the pediatric community, a model that supports a constructive relationship between clinicians and families and parents and children, and a public health framework that promotes safe, stable, nurturing relationships as a standard of care.…

“We love having Reach Out and Read at our site. We get positive feedback from providers, staff and families.” Mercy Health Rockford Clinic

We are thrilled to share that, effective next year, Reach Out and Read West Michigan is officially expanding its Affiliate’s presence to serve all sites across the state of Michigan and will be aptly named Reach Out and Read Michigan.…

Over the last three years, Reach Out and Read has supported the widescale promotion of Early Relational Health (ERH) through training that equips pediatric primary care communities to promote positive parent/caregiver-child interactions through early literacy.

In 2019, Reach Out and Read recognized our value in promoting ERH and launched our Next Chapter strategy to maximize pediatric primary care’s potential to promote positive interactions that foster healthy development during the critical early years of a child’s life.…

Reach Out and Read in Oregon and Washington have unified regionally as Reach Out and Read Northwest. With more than 400,000 well-child visits in the Northwest provided annually, the leaders in the Pacific Northwest have come together to share resources and serve more families with greater efficiency.…