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About Us
We partner with our state's leaders in promoting healthy child development. We seek to empower young children to succeed for the rest off their lives. That means preparing them for kindergarten and academic success, and helping them build the loving and caring relationships vital to their well-being. In addition to our core program, we have started a number of initiatives to help Minnesotan families fulfill their unique needs and set their children up for a lifetime of learning.
Reach Out and Read Minnesota is proud to host three of the first neo-natal intensive care unit Reach Out and Read programs in the country at M Health Fairview Masonic Children's Hospital, Hennepin Healthcare in downtown Minneapolis, and Children's Minnesota in St. Paul. At these sites, healthcare providers trained in the program give books and special guidance on promoting early learning and healthy bonding to parents within the context of the NICU.
Libraries play a vital role in supporting literacy and providing learning resources to communities. We're proud to partner with a few of Minnesota's major library systems to make these resources more accessible. We recently partnered with Saint Paul Public Library to create multilingual posters encouraging families to use their local library and directing them to a library activities calendar. These posters, created in English, Hmong, Somali, and Spanish, were placed in our partner pediatric clinics across Saint Paul. You can read the press release by clicking the link on the image. As of 2022, we are also partnering with Hennepin County Library to create educational posters in English, Spanish and Somali which encourage parents and caregivers to talk, read, write, and sing together with their children to boost their development. These posters also promote library resources, including story times. These posters are being shared with our partner clinics across Hennepin County. If you have a suggestion for a partnership with a Minnesota library system, please reach out to us at info@reachoutandreadmn.org
Little Moments Count is statewide collaborative initiative that includes leaders in healthcare, education, and early childhood development. Together, we seek to help parents and the community understand the importance of talking, playing, reading and singing early and often with children.
