Increases in Clinic Morale, Provider Satisfaction, and Relationships

A new Wisconsin Medical Journal study published by Dr. Heather Burton and Dr. Dipesh Navsaria found that Reach Out and Read helped enhance clinic morale, increase provider satisfaction, and improve patient-clinician relationships in ten study clinics. Compared to clinicians in control clinics, clinicians in study clinics were more likely to report that they played a large role in promoting literacy and reported having more consistent literacy discussion in visits.…

Research Shows Reach Out and Read is Good for Clinicians.

Study Finds that Reach Out and Read Enhances Clinic Morale, Increase Provider Satisfaction, and Improve Patient-Clinician Relationships

Article co-author, Dr. Dipesh Navsaria modeling reading aloud to a family.

A new Wisconsin Medical Journal study published by Dr. Heather Burton and Dr.…

A Love of Reading Takes Flight at the Dane County Regional Airport

If you find yourself in the Dane County Regional Airport, Wisconsin with children, make sure to try the sleek new kiosk that dispenses short stories for young travelers. Children will love the walk up dispenser that holds more than 10,000 stories and is absolutely FREE to the user.…

Help Children Learn to Read, excerpt from opinion piece by Nicholas Kristof

Reach Out and Read supports disadvantaged preschoolers right here in the United States. It coaches parents on the importance of reading to their children every evening and gives away children’s books, often to homes without a single kid’s book.

Reach Out and Read is astonishingly cost-effective — about $20 per child per year — because it piggybacks on pediatricians who donate their time.…

Kristof’s Holiday Impact Prize

Reach Out and Read is a proud recipient of New York Times columnist and two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Nick Kristof’s Holiday Impact Prize!

We are grateful to Nick Kristof for honoring us as we approach #GivingTuesday. His journalism has had an immense impact around the globe.…

Celebrating 30 Years

Brian Gallagher, CEO of Reach Out and Read; Marny Dunlap MD, Reach Out and Read Oklahoma Medical Director, 2019 Gretchen Hunsberger Awardee; Perri Klass MD, Reach Out and Read National Medical Director; Nate Chomilo MD, Reach Out and Read Minnesota Medical Director, 2018 Gretchen Hunsberger Awardee

Reach Out and Read celebrated its 30th Anniversary with our Next Chapter Forum and National Leadership Conference at the historic Boston Public Library from November 6-8, 2019.…

Grade Level Reading Webinar

Brian Gallagher, Chief Executive Officer for Reach Out and Read along with Regional Programs Director, Carolyn Merrifield, and Reach Out and Read Board Director, Dipesh Navsaria, MD, MPH, MSLIS, FAAP, will lead a webinar highlighting 30 years of Reach Out and Read and the vital role pediatric primary care clinicians play in supporting early relational health.…

From the Desk of Executive Director, Amy Erickson

I knew of Dr. Terri McFadden long before we met in person. I’ve yet to meet a single person in the medical community in Georgia who did not have some familiarity of Dr. McFadden. I once mistakenly referred to Terri as the “grandmother” to all Georgia’s children when I meant to say “godmother.”…