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CONSIDER report on the reading programs offered by the Housing Authority and its
partners at several housing developments.
BACKGROUND
The Housing Authority (HACCC) has begun to invest its own resources and to partner with
outside agencies, including the County Library System, to develop early reading programs at
several of its public housing developments. Over the course of the next few years, the goal
is to establish mini-libraries at every public housing site that has an office, and to make
books available to children of Section 8 families who come in for office appointments.
In April of this year, HACCC partnered with Grace Worship Center of the East Bay and
REading ADvantage of Brentwood to open mini-libraries and offer reading programs at the
El Pueblo public housing development in Pittsburg and also at the DeAnza Gardens tax
credit property in Bay Point. HACCC plans to open mini-libraries at Los Arboles in Oakley,
Alhambra Terrace in Martinez, and Bayo Vista in Rodeo in early to mid-2016.
HACCC is also part of the national and Bay Area Campaign for Grade Level Reading. The
Action of Board On: 11/10/2015 APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED OTHER
Clerks Notes:
VOTE OF COMMISSIONERS
AYE:John Gioia,
Commissioner
Candace Andersen,
Commissioner
Mary N. Piepho,
Commissioner
Karen Mitchoff,
Commissioner
Federal D. Glover,
Commissioner
ABSENT:Fay Nathaniel,
Commissioner
Contact: 925-957-8028
I hereby certify that this is a true and correct copy of an action taken and entered on the minutes
of the Board of Supervisors on the date shown.
ATTESTED: November 10, 2015
Joseph Villarreal, Executive Director
By: June McHuen, Deputy
cc:
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To:Contra Costa County Housing Authority Board of Commissioners
From:Joseph Villarreal, Housing Authority
Date:November 10, 2015
Contra
Costa
County
Subject:Reading Programs Offered by the Housing Authority
Campaign focuses on an important predictor of school success and high school
graduation—grade-level reading by the end of third grade. As part of the campaign,
HACCC received a $10,000 grant from the 50 Fund, the legacy fund of the Super Bowl
Host Committee, to finance HACCC's literacy efforts over the summer and continuing still.
BACKGROUND (CONT'D)
Finally, HACCC has also been helping public housing families with children under age 5
to register with Dolly Parton's Imagination Library. Launched in 1995, Dolly Parton's
Imagination Library mails a high quality, age-appropriate book each month to registered
families. The program helps insure that every child can have books, regardless of their
family’s income. Dolly’s Imagination Library has gone from just a few dozen books to
over 60,000,000 books mailed to children in the United States, Canada and the United
Kingdom. Currently over 750,000 children receive books each month and independent
reports have shown Dolly Parton's Imagination Library drastically improves early
childhood literacy for children enrolled in the program.
Beth Campbell, HACCC's Director of Asset Management, will give an oral presentation
about the agency's literacy efforts. Attached is a recent article from the Contra Costa
Times about HACCC's first two mini-libraries.
FISCAL IMPACT
None. Information item only.
CONSEQUENCE OF NEGATIVE ACTION
None, information item only.
CLERK'S ADDENDUM
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