The Reach Out and Read (ROR) program at Family Health Center is a pediatric literacy program. ROR was developed to foster children's love of books and reading by giving them books and encouraging their parents to read to them at home. The program uses the supportive relationship between parents and health care providers to educate parents about literacy development, and integrates literacy into regular pediatric care for children from the ages of six months to five years.

During well-child visits, physicians and nurse practitioners advise parents about the importance of reading with young children. At every well-child visit, children ages six months to five years receive a new, developmentally and culturally appropriate children's book to take home and keep. In the clinic waiting rooms, volunteer readers read books to children, exposing them to books and modeling reading aloud techniques to parents while demonstrating the please of looking at books together.

We appreciate donations of gently-used books as well as monetary donatins.

Phone: (508) 860-7700