Contact Information 2322 River Road Burlington, NC 27217-8359 336.513.0063 336.226.1152 (Fax) ngilliam@alamancechildren.org								Mission Statement: The Partnership shapes opinion and mobilizes resources to support Alamance County families in creating and sustaining nurturing environments for their children.
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B.A.B.Y.
	The goal of Motheread® B.A.B.Y. ® classes is to educate and encourage first-time parents. Using children’s literature, the curriculum teaches health care, parenting, and literacy skills. Motheread® B.A.B.Y. ® first focuses on prenatal health care topics and parenting skills. Following lessons tackle issues about growth and development for newborns up to one year of age. Additional strategies include targeting destructive behaviors (i.e. substance abuse) and relating information in a forum and with language easily accepted and understood. Alamance Partnership for Children is excited to announce a partnership with Alamance Regional Medical Center Motheread to host B.A.B.Y. classes in the Alamance Regional Medical Center Education Center. B.A.B.Y. is an eight week class and dinner will be provided for all parent participants. Parents can earn supplies to help care for their newborns as part of the class. For more information and to enroll, call Ann Meletzke 336.513.0063 x 114
Dolly Parton Imagination Library
	In 1996, Dolly Parton launched a reading program to benefit the children of her home county in east Tennessee. Dolly wanted to foster a love of reading among her county’s preschool children and their families. She wanted children to be excited about books and to feel the magic that books can create. Eligible children will receive free one developmentally appropriate book in the mail per month until they reach their fifth birthday. The books distributed by the Dolly Parton Foundation are carefully selected to be age-appropriate and to deliver positive, developmentally important skill opportunities for the targeted children. This service is at no cost to the family. Alamance Partnership for Children is currently providing this service to the Eastlawn, Newlin, Andrews, Haw River, Grove Park, Pleasant Grove, and North Graham school zones. To be eligible, a child between the ages of birth to five years of age needs to reside within one of these districts. Alamance Partnership for Children is currently seeking additional funds in order to expand this program. For more information and to enroll, call Ann Meletzke 336.513.0063 x 114
Motheread
	The Motheread® program, developed and based in North Carolina, is a nationally recognized, well-researched literacy effort that works to achieve several literacy-related goals. Although it is couched in the guise of a children’s pre-literacy effort, the program has potential to impact a family in many other ways. The program is structured as a series of group meetings led by a trained Motheread® facilitator. Through guided book discussions, parents will learn to help their children develop the pre-literacy skills that will prepare them for kindergarten. While this process is directly focused on child pre-literacy skills, two other opportunities will be created. The first is that parents, who may not be confident in their own literacy skills, will build those capacities in a non-threatening atmosphere. The group discussion and the simplicity of the reading material mean that parents who have low-level reading skills can still find a way to read books to their children, even if it is through memorizing the easy content. The second is that new habits of shared time with children will be fostered into an n environment lacking attachment and verbal/nonverbal interactions. These classes are currently offered for parents of children ages four months to five years. Child care is provided. Motheread classes are ongoing. Classes are held at different locations. It is an eight week class and refreshments and child care will be provided for all parent participants. Parents will also receive a free book for their child at each class. For more information, please call Ann Meletzke Alamance Partnership for Children at 336.513.0063 x 114.
Reach Out And Read
	The Reach Out and Read® program was initially developed and tested in medical practices in Boston, Massachusetts. The program incorporates literacy awareness into health care for young children by educating parents that healthy development for their children goes beyond physical care and encompasses developmental and cognitive care as well. At regularly scheduled well-child visits, doctors ask questions about family reading patterns when completing developmental screenings. They inform parents regarding age-appropriate pre-literacy skills and expectations as well as give tips on effective practices to encourage shared family reading. Beyond that, the doctors give age-appropriate books (provided by the Alamance Partnership for Children) to the children to take home, ensuring that the child’s home environment is print-enriched and thereby reinforcing the importance of reading. ROR is currently being administered out of Burlington Pediatrics on Webb Avenue, and Mebane Pediatrics. ROR has distributed nearly 5,000 books during well-child visits. Additional offices providing well-child visits are being added. For more information, call Ann Meletzke 336.513.0063 x 114

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