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Susan Stock and Judy Mayer, English professors at Union County College, created a Reach Out and Read center at Plainfield Health Center in 2002-3 as a sabbatical project. Reach Out and Read (ROR) is a unique program that promotes early literacy. Doctor gives the parent and child a new book as a prescription for their minds. The program hopes to encourage parents to read to their children so books are provided for parent of children from six months to 5 years. There are also gently used books in the waiting room for the children to read and take home.
Sue Stock kept the ROR effort going for several years, and since I live fairly close to PHC, I would help her stock the physicians shelves with books for them to distribute. I also started going to end of library book sales where they sell what remains for $5 a bag, rather than put it in the dumpster! For the last few years, I've taken over as the primary volunteer and visit book sales a couple of times a month when they happen in the spring and fall (I find them mainly using BookSaleFinder.) I fill my car with board books and line the shelves of my garage until I can bring them to the health center, 3 boxes a week.
If you have any very young children's books - either board books or picture books with only a few sentences per page, I would be delighted to find happy homes for them. If you know of any end of library sales and best of all the person to contact there, please tell.
Read more at
about the ROR at PHC in the news at
Watch about it at
Visiting the doctor
for a checkup, and a book
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