The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) emphasizes the latest research showing the significance of safe, stable, and nurturing relationships as a protective buffer against the biological harms of toxic stress on children – as well as a key toward building resilience – in an updated policy statement.…
Amerigroup Tennessee, a leading managed care provider of health benefits for Tennessee residents who participate in the state’s Medicaid programs, and Reach Out and Read are joining forces to enhance childhood literacy and foster the emotional, cognitive, social, and biological functioning of children throughout the region.…
Reach Out and Read, the national organization that partners with pediatric clinicians to promote early literacy through well-child visits, has announced that Brian Gallagher will be stepping down as CEO later this year, after nearly 15 years of service to the organization. …
Alabama’s Governor, Kay Ivey announced a new partnership for the Reach Out and Read Alabama program with the Alabama Department of Early Childhood Education, Alabama Medicaid Agency, and the Alabama Department of Public Health.
These state agencies are providing funding to Reach Out and Read Alabama to expand services to children living in Macon, Marshall, Monroe, Jefferson, and Randolph counties.…
Reach Out and Read has lost a dear friend with the passing of Richard (Dick) Robinson. Scholastic has announced that Richard (Dick) Robinson passed away suddenly over the weekend. Dick served as Scholastic’s Chair and CEO for several decades, and consistently demonstrated his deep commitment to children’s literacy and education. …
Our virtual gathering of clinicians, early childhood experts, and Reach Out and Read leadership provided a venue to share the power of Reach Out and Read to give every child a strong foundation through meaningful child-parent interactions and a love of reading and books. …
At Reach Out and Read, we envision a world where all parents have daily, positive, meaningful, language-rich interactions with their child, a world where every child is read to every day as close, loving relationships support a child’s ability to thrive. …
Reach Out and Read is thrilled to build upon our existing partnership with Intermountain Healthcare in Utah, as part of Healthy Kids, a comprehensive multi-faceted initiative to help create and sustain healthy and safe communities for children. Intermountain Healthcare and Intermountain Primary Children’s Hospital are leading a cross-sector partnership of evidence-based programs that help children succeed, by investing in and supporting these interventions to sustainably impact children in Utah.…
“When people think of Dungeons & Dragons, they think of a bunch of dudes in their mom’s basement,” Satine Phoenix, “The Queen of D&D,” says in a piece for Time. “Once a year or so I run a Celebrity Charity Dungeons & Dragons [CCD20] game where various actors and other celebrities play D&D and raise money for Reach Out and Read… We livestream it, and their fans — who have no idea they were into this — suddenly get interested in D&D.…
The pandemic has changed just about every aspect of our lives, especially learning. Access to education is an increasing concern not just for adults of small children, but for activist teenagers that care deeply about the effects the pandemic is having on girls and education.…