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HomeMy WebLinkAboutMINUTES - 11081994 - 1.7 (2) t- 70 TO: BOARD OF SUPERVISORS FROM: Anne Marie Gold, County Librarian DATE: October 20, 1994 SUBJECT: AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION BORN TO READ GRANT SPECIFIC REQUEST(S) OR RECOMMENDATION(S) & BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION RECOMMENDED ACTION: Approve the County Librarian's application for a $30,000 grant from the American Library Association to establish a Born to Read Program in partnership with the Contra Costa County Health Services Department effective November 1, 1994. FINANCIAL IMPACT: In-kind contributions will be made by the County Library and the Health Services Department to the project for administrative staff time, space and some supplies. BACKGROUND: The Contra Costa County Library and the Contra Costa County Health Services Department are applying for$30,000 from the American Library Association to establish a Born To Read program serving the women and families in the County's Born Free program, a substance abuse intervention and recovery program for pregnant women and new mothers who are patients at Merrithew Memorial Hospital, the Pittsburg Health Clinic and the Richmond Health Center. The Born To Read partnership between the library and the Born Free program will combine direct services and training to the mothers, parenting consultants, and child care providers in the Born Free program with the development of the capability for the children's librarians to offer special programs which help parents introduce their babies to appropriate literature, how to interpret child reactions, select appropriate material and understand the developmental steps they observe in their child. The Born to Read program will provide the following benefits: • help parents recognize their children's emerging literacy skills from birth and to help their children grow into their love of reading • provide a protective factor around the second generation so that they are more competent and motivated to do well in school • empower parents to become involved with their children's reading even if they don't read • enhance the recovery of women in the program by increasing their interest and competency in reading and life skills increase the self-esteem of mothers and give them the self-confidence that they are parenting well • increase positive interaction between mothers in the program and their children • reduce intrafamily tensions and violence which are linked to low self-esteem and low skills • decrease the isolation of women in the program by providing them with a set of role models • train children's librarians to be able to offer lap sit programs as a way of introducing very young children to reading and books Continued on Attachment: SIGNATURE: _RECOMMENDATION OF COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR _RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE _APPROVE _OTHER SIGNATURE(S): ACTION OF BOARD ON NOV APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED_ OTHER_ VOTE OF SUPERVISORS I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS IS A TRUE AND ✓UNANIMOUS (ABSENT ) CORRECT COPY OF AN ACTION TAKEN AND AYES: NOES: ENTERED ON THE MINUTES OF THE ABSENT.- ABSTAIN. BOARD OF SUPERVISORS ON DATE SHOWN. Attested NOV 8 19% Contact: Anne Cain, 646-6423 Phil Batchelor, Clerk of the Board of Supervisors and CC: County Library County Administrator County Administrator r` County Auditor By Deputy Clerk i: mam: eaa '