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.…
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.…
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.…
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.…
Do you remember what it was like to sit on your parent’s lap and read a book together?
I have such strong memories of what that felt like, and that is why, as Reach Out and Read Georgia’s Medical Director and President of the Georgia Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics, I love what Reach Out and Read means for my patients and their families.…
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.”…
Meet Jacque DaSilva, Senior Accountant at Reach Out and Read National. Jacque is the proud mother of two amazing children, Cristiano and Adriana. Jacque juggles being a single, working mother of two children and making reading aloud with her children a priority.…
Nearly 30 years ago, Dr. Jay Berkelhamer brought the Reach Out and Read program to the University of Chicago pediatric outpatient clinic. The Reach Out and Read program was in its infancy much like the young patients it serves, and, through implementing the model, Dr.…
ATLANTA (FOX 5 Atlanta) – He’s known to music fans around the world as a member of the Grammy-winning Zac Brown Band. But it’s his successful – and unexpected – career as a children’s book author that recently brought Georgia-native Coy Bowles to Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta at Hughes Spalding.…
We caught a sweet parent-child moment while visiting Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta. This adorable four-month-old was mouthing a Reach Out and Read Georgia bookmark and soon this cutie will be holding his bookmark and his book with his pincer grasp.…