| Raising A Reader Celebrates A Milestone |
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On Monday, January 30, American Hockey League all-stars Michael Leighton of the Adirondack Phantoms and Boyd Kane of the Hershey Bears along with United Way staff are set to make an important delivery to a pre-school classroom at AtlantiCare Kids Childcare and Early Learning Center. This special package – the ‘1000th book bag’ marks a milestone for the Raising A Reader program, an early literacy component of United Way’s Success By 6 initiative. |
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It began as a simple idea for children to initiate reading time with parents. Raising A Reader has grown into a nationally recognized program that has been implemented in over 2,500 locations around the nation through 146 affiliates, serving more than 111,000 children and families. Raising A Reader is a take-home book bag program that works to connect children, parents, caretakers and the library system in a shared effort to increase early literacy. The bright red bags are filled with award-winning books that are circulated into children's homes on a weekly basis, exposing these children (and siblings) to an average of 100 books per rotation cycle. To date, programs have been implemented in 20 locations in Atlantic County including AtlantiCare Kids Childcare and Early Learning Center, several Head Start Programs, the AtlantiCare Behavioral Health Atlantic City Family Center, Pleasantville Day Care Center, Richard Stockton College of New Jersey's Free to Be Child Care Center and others. |
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| Join us in celebrating this milestone and help us put even more Raising A Reader bookbags into our local community. |
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