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Actions by Providers of Programs, Services, and Supports

Providers of a wide variety of services and supports use diverse approaches (including Information handouts, book distribution programs, and counseling to parents on the importance of early literacy experiences) to promote literacy-centered practices at home. Providers encourage parents to:
  • Read to children daily
  • Have rich conversations with children
  • Limit TV use
Providers establish lending libraries in family support centers and other community-based hubs with books for parents and books for parents to read to their children.

The Harlem Children’s Zone’s Harlem Gems program conducts parenting workshops on ways to stimulate children’s cognitive growth through reading and talking.

Pediatricians who participate in Reach Out and Read, www.reachoutandread.org and the Healthy Steps for Young Children programs emphasize the importance of reading with children. They give families a book at each well-child visit after the child is six months old.


A variety of programs establish, expand, and support adult literacy and General Education Degree (GED) programs to equip parents to engage their children in reading and other cognitively stimulating activities. Activities to help parents provide a cognitively stimulating home are aimed especially at pregnant women, parents of young children, and providers of informal child care.

The Hope Street Family Center offers family literacy programs and training to help parents and child care providers develop the emerging language skills of infants and toddlers.
Maryland Family Support Centers Network, as part of their encouragement to parents to read with their children, offer parents GED preparation, tutoring, and literacy instruction.



 
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