Connecting good health and good books!
A partnership project of:
Local Health Care Providers
Family Reading Partnership
Our Community
Participating Medical Practices:
Buttermilk Falls Pediatrics
Cayuga Family Medicine
Dr. Peter Clark of Groton
Drs. Stewart and O’Shea Family Medicine
Dryden Family Medicine
Family Medical Practice of Dryden
Family Medicine Associates of Ithaca
Guthrie Medical Group
Northeast Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine
Trumansburg Family Health
6-month Book -- funded by Friends of Tompkins County Public Library
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12-month Book -- funded by Tompkins Charitable Gift Fund
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18-month Book -- funded by Buttermilk Falls Pediatrics and Northeast Pediatrics |
 2-year Book -- funded by Park Foundation |
3-year Book -- funded by CircleLink Fund
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4-year Book -- funded by Triad Foundation
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--Encourage parents to make books and reading aloud a special part of
everyday life for their children.
--Connect healthy child development with good books.
--Increase positive family and child interaction.
--Increase book ownership and early library use by all children and
families.
--Create a common book experience for all children in our community,
regardless of their socioeconomic or ethnic background.
--Help all children in our community enter school ready to learn.
--Support the health provider as a source for developmentally appropriate,
health-promoting activities.
Books to Grow On grew in Ithaca with support from the Family Reading
Partnership. It was inspired by a community outreach initiative (CATCH)
of the American Academy of Pediatrics which seeks to encourage Health
Care Providers to include literacy promotion in Well Child Care. Books
to Grow On is our local contribution to the many new reading and medicine
partnerships springing up in communities across the country.
Physicians and nurse practitioners present the child and family with a new book as a gift from the medical practice. The book, along with advice for the families on the importance and pleasure of early reading experiences, will be incorporated into well visits. A total of six high-quality, age-appropriate, and culturally sensitive books will be given at visits from age six months through four years.
--The first years of life are critical for brain development.
--Of all the activities families do with their children, few will have
as powerful an impact on development as time spent together with books
and reading aloud!
--Taking a child on a lap and sharing a story:
• forms a special bond
• increases vocabulary
• develops attention span
• awakens imagination
• develops a love for books
• shows children the world
• lays the foundation for reading and all of
life's education
American Academy of Pediatrics
American Library Association/Born to Read
Family Reading Partnership
Ithaca, New York
Phone: 607-277-8602
Email: office@familyreading.org
