What We Do

Our Approach: The Read and Rise Program provides Free Books and School Supplies to low income children.

Why Free Books? Studies have documented that Children who have books at home are more likely to read often. We distribute over 4,000 books and children magazines to low-income children each year.

What we have accomplished: We have distributed over 24,000 books to low-income children since the program started.

Our Approach: The Read and Rise Program supports Neighborhood Reading Centers where volunteers read to children throughout the year.

Why Read To Children? Most Children don't have anyone reading to them at home. yet, research shows that children who are read to are more likely to develop a love of reading.

What we have accomplished: Children in our program can read age/grade appropriate books - perform better than the general population in reading assessments.

Parent Training includes - Tips on how to create a home environment that supports learning - Vital skills (spoken words, written words, word power, etc.) that children need to acquire at different age/grade levels - Tips on planning and having effective parent/teacher conferences, and much, much more.

Why Train Parents? Numerous research findings indicate that parents who are aware and knowledgeable about their roles are more likely to be involved in the education of their children.

What we have accomplished: Teachers thank us because they observe that parents who have benefitted from our program attend parent teacher's conferences more, and are asking more insightful questions about how their children are doing in school.

To learn more about the Read and Rise program, please contact the Read and Rise Coordinator Betty Halliburton at bhalliburton@lcul.org.

Our Sponsors and Contributors

We thank the following organizations for their material and/or financial support of our Education Program: