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Reach Out and Read Awarded Holiday Impact Prize in New York Times
(The New York Times)By Nicholas Kristof Forget the necktie that will sit in Dad’s closet or the perfume that your sister Sue will soon regift, for I have some better ideas. … Help a child learn to read! Books were my childhood’s magic carpets that lifted me on the lifelong journey that now leads me to write […]
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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. “It is with a full and grateful heart that I share the news […]
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, […]
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. Our group especially enjoyed welcoming Judith Palfrey, MD, T. Berry Brazelton Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School […]
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. With the shared belief of nurturing young children’s hearts and minds, we are pleased […]
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 […]