Webinars for Site Coordinators:
Reach Out and Read offers a monthly Webinar for new Site Coordinators on the third Thursday of every month at 12:00 PM EST. This standing date offers you an excellent opportunity to ask questions and/or seek guidance about Progress Reporting, how to track books, order from Scholastic, deposit money into your pre-paid Scholastic accounts, and how to use www.myror.org.
To participate you will need access to a phone and a computer; sessions generally last 30 minutes. To register, please email Avery Borreliz and she'll send you the call in number and webinar log in instructions. |
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 Show your Reach Out and Read Pride!
As I've traveled throughout New England, I've seen many examples of Reach Out and Read pride...stickers on doors, signs at reception desks, posters in your literacy-rich waiting rooms. And now, travels through cyberspace can show that pride also! Many of our Programs across the country have their own websites; why not add information about Reach Out and Read to your page?
Not all web pages will be as rich as the one developed by Chris Alexander, Reach Out and Read Coordinator at Children's Hospital Pediatric Primary Care Clinic (shown here), but certainly consider uploading our Development Milestones here or a video clip (from our library? Or, what about posting patient comments about what it means to receive a book at well child visits? So, show your Reach Out and Read pride! Upload information to your website or ask to send you a door/window decal or additional signs such as
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 Support-A-Site It's summer - and hopefully the livin' is easy (or a little easier!) at your health center, clinic, or practice. If so, why not check out our newly revised SUPPORT-a-SITE (SaS) materials and commit to approaching one or two local small businesses or service organizations for a donation? Shine a light on your Reach Out and Read program and illuminate for your community the literacy promotion work of your providers! Donors can't donate unless they know there's a need! * Post used book fliers * Distribute the new donation "rack card" around town, at health fairs, or in your lobby! * Once school is out, involve local teens in your efforts, too. They can: * read in the waiting room * collect used books * download the Developmental Milestones bookmarks, print and cut a stack, and insert them in your Reach Out and Read books * freshen your waiting room * hold a car wash on behalf of your Reach Out and Read program! (Bookmarks can be found in the myROR "document library" under Literacy Resources.) Download the new SaS zipped file here (it includes a streamlined brochure as well as a new donor "rack card" and the milestone bookmarks ). Be patient as the set of documents loads! Good luck! By raising funds to deposit into your pre-paid Scholastic account you ensure that your Program will have all the books it needs, including the titles most loved by your providers and families. |
Reach Out and Read's CEO, Earl Martin Phalen, in the News
Mr. Phalen's interview on Boston's "Chronicle" news segment.
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 2012 National Reach Out and Read Provider Survey
To enhance the work we do, we need your help!
A few weeks ago, an online survey was emailed to all Reach Out and Read healthcare providers across the country to gather data to help us better understand the challenges you face, as well as the lessons you have learned, from delivering the Reach Out and Read message daily to your families.
By participating in the survey, providers have a unique opportunity to inform Reach Out and Read's strategic efforts and to help strengthen programs, trainings, and materials.
We're thrilled to have received so many completed surveys to date. If you are not one of the over 1,000 providers who have already completed the survey, it's not too late! Just click here to complete the survey. Thank you.
It should take 5-7 minutes to fill out, so kindly forward the above link to all the Reach Out and Read providers at your Program and encourage their participation!
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Reach Out and Read National Center would like your stories ...
Can you illustrate the power of Reach Out and Read in action? Do you know a family or child who's been particularly helped by Reach Out and Read? Did you develop a closer relationship with a family because of Reach Out and Read? Have you used the book in an interesting way? If so, send us an email!
Your everyday stories and personal quotes bolster our clinical evidence, and help us in our fundraising efforts and grant requests. And...they can earn you 100 books for your Program if National uses your story!
Click here to see past winners.
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Reach Out and Read New England
New Hampshire Newsletter
Summer, 2012
Serving 20,891 children
at 47 Programs
distributing 33,022 books |
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Please forward this newsletter to all your pediatric and family practice providers and staff! |
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Regional Director's Note 
For the past two years I have had the happy privilege of supporting Reach Out and Read programs in the Granite State, and in the process of visiting every Site, I have come to know some of you better than others. Yet what I know to be uniformly true about you as a group, as well as individually, is how well you understand that the foundation of a healthy society - and a thriving New Hampshire future - begins in childhood. This awareness plays out every day in all of New Hampshire's 47 Reach Out and Read programs. At large health centers and small, on quiet days and busy ones, books are handed out to children and parents are encouraged by providers to fully support their child's early language and literacy development by reading together every day. Brain architecture is established very early in life, and books build better reading brains. Thank you for your daily dedication to passing on this vital tip to all your parents!
This edition of the New Hampshire newsletter marks the conclusion of my New Hampshire activities. But the things I have learned in Vermont and New Hampshire, and in Massachusetts before that, will be put to good use in my new position as Director of Program Quality and Provider Training at the Reach Out and Read national office in Boston. It's a fabulous opportunity.
Nora Murphy, Reach Out and Read's Program Support Coordinator at the National Center will now add New Hampshire programs to her roster. She has been with Reach Out and Read for four years and is based in Boston, just as I was. Given her broad experience, Nora is immediately able to offer you whatever technical and programmatic support you need! Please don't hesitate to contact her at 617-455-0657 or Nora.Murphy@reachoutandread.org. And I know she'll be in touch with you soon, as Progress Reports will be issuing shortly.
Enormous thanks for your daily efforts to promote literacy inside the exam room. Your collective efforts translate into positive outcomes for thousands of New Hampshire's children.
Gretchen Hunsberger
Program Director, New England Region
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 At-Risk Latino Children in Reach Out and Read Have Strong Kindergarten Literacy Skills
Study Connects Participation in School-Readiness Initiative with Good Home Literacy Environments
Reach Out and Read now has 15 peer-reviewed studies supporting its effectiveness. The newest study, "Kindergarten Readiness and Performance of Latino Children Participating in Reach Out and Read" (Journal of Community Medicine & Health Education), was co-authored by Reach Out and Read Utah's Medical Director, Dr. Wendy Hobson-Rohrer, and Marissa L. Diener, PhD.
This study shows that at-risk Latino children who participated in Reach Out and Read from six months of age, established good home literacy environments and developed average or above average literacy skills by the end of kindergarten. These results are particularly encouraging since we know that 88% of first graders who are below grade level in reading will continue to read below grade level in fourth grade. (Juel, 1988)
Key findings of the new study show that:
* Despite the risks of poverty, low maternal education, and English as a second language, home literacy environments of these Latino children were solid.
* Despite the fact that each child possessed two or more risk factors for poor performance in kindergarten, 60% were identified by their teachers as "intermediate" and "proficient" in reading. 77% of these Reach Out and Read children were rated as having "average," "above average," or "far above average" literacy skills as their peers.
* 59% of mothers in the study reported that their child had been read to the day before, identical to rates reported for high-income families in national surveys.
"This study gives us a great deal of hope for at-risk children who are exposed to literacy from an early age," said Carrie L. Byington, MD, Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Utah School of Medicine, another of the paper's co-authors. "We believe our findings add to the strong evidence base that supports Reach Out and Read as a powerful early literacy intervention."
To view the full study online, click here.
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Rotary Grant Supports Reach Out and Read at Ammonoosuc Community Health Center
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Getting books from the doctor is now a routine part of regular pediatric checkups at all locations of Ammonoosuc Community Health Services (ACHS). Thanks to advocacy efforts from Frank Benham, the Littleton Rotary Club's Literacy Committee Chair, ACHS successfully secured the necessary seed money to purchase books to get Reach Out and Read up and running in April.
The total donation of $1400 - comprised of a $1000 Rotary Literacy Grant and $400 donated by the Littleton Rotary Club itself - was recently presented to Teresa Brooks, ACHS' Director of Patient Services and Reach Out and Read Coordinator. ACHS expects to serve approximately 680 children throughout the 26 communities the Health Center serves in northern Grafton and southern Coos counties. "Sites are located in Littleton, Franconia, Whitefield, Warren and Woodsville," says Teresa.
Reach Out and Read fits perfectly with ACHS' mission to offer a network of affordable primary health services in order to promote and support the well-being of individuals and families by emphasizing preventive care and encouraging active participation in one's own health.
Consider asking your local Rotary Club for support for your Program!
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Ready your data for the Progress Report.
Count your books!
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New Deadlines for Progress Reporting!
Starting with the upcoming July 2012 Progress Report, deadlines for completing reports will change.The July report is due no later than SEPTEMBER 1. (Previously, the deadline was Sept. 30th). Similarly, the January 2013 Progress Report will be due March 1 (rather than March 30).
This change provides us with additional time to process data and to determine in the spring and the fall how best to allocate books to eligible sites. Importantly, this change will allow us to issue our audited financial statements earlier.
The July 2012 Report will be available to you via www.myROR .org in early July. As always, you'll receive email notification once the reports are up and available
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