Our Partners
Reach Out and Read prepares America's youngest children to succeed in school by partnering with doctors to prescribe books and encourage families to read together.
Doctors, nurse practitioners, and other medical professionals incorporate Reach Out and Read's evidence-based model into regular pediatric checkups, by advising parents about the importance of reading aloud and giving developmentally-appropriate books to children. The program begins at the 6-month checkup and continues through age 5, with a special emphasis on children growing up in low-income communities. Families served by Reach Out and Read read together more often, and their children enter kindergarten with larger vocabularies and stronger language skills, better prepared to achieve their potential.
http://www.reachoutandread.org
Get FREE messages each week on your cell phone to help you through your pregnancy and your baby's first year. Text4baby will send 3 text messages each week to your cell phone with expert health tips to help you through your pregnancy and your baby's first year. It’s free to sign up and the messages are free.
To sign up, text BABY to 511411. To sign up for text4baby in Spanish, text BEBE to 511411.
You can also sign up and find out more at text4baby.org. Text4baby is an educational service of the National Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Coalition.
http://www.text4baby.org
