Reach Out and Read Alabama

We aim to create a world where every family uses shared reading to build the bonds needed for their children’s health and future.

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Read more in our blog post at https://t.co/jGd8uZat2x.

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The partners who helped us write our previous chapters are now ready to turn the page with us, enabling the next generation to enjoy reading.

Thank to @ALPublicHealth, @AL_DECE, Alabama Children’s Health Insurance Program and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

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Amy Crosby, Program Director and Kym Middleton, MD, @Alchapaap board liaison, traveled to Washington, DC for the @reachoutandread + Nurture Connection 2025 National Summit for a powerful week of learning, reflection, and shared purpose.

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The simplest acts — like sharing a story — can bring comfort and calm. Books aren’t just for learning — they can be therapy, connection, and hope. 📚💛

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Early Relational Health is reshaping pediatric care. @APA highlights that programs nationwide are making caregiver-child connections a standard, helping families thrive from day one. 💛🌱

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Every moment can be a reading moment. 📚 Whether you’re on the road again, sitting in a waiting room, soaking up sunshine, or cuddled up for bed — sharing books with your kids, starting at birth, builds memories and helps their brains grow. 🌟

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The initiative makes it possible for us to reach thousands more children across Alabama by aiming to fulfill our goal to increase participation by 10 percent each year. https://t.co/k4cW8MnI5e

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We are excited to announce that the Reach Out and Read—Alabama Health Services Initiative, a collaborative project with the @aldece, the @Alchapaap, the Alabama Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), and @ALPublicHealth, has been continued for the next three years.

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Simply log into your DAF account (Fidelity Charitable, Schwab, Vanguard, or another provider) and recommend a gift to Reach Out and Read-Alabama, OR
visit https://t.co/SPb7X6YqBd and choose to donate through your DAF.

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It’s DAF Day 2025!
When you make a DAF gift to Reach Out and Read-Alabama today, you’re helping us strengthen all families with young children through guidance from medical clinicians about nurturing relationships through shared reading.

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Before the year ends, let’s begin a new chapter —
one where every child is ready to read, ready to learn, and ready to thrive.
Turn the page with your donation today at https://t.co/XccSsyFsm2.

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Every story shared with your child is an opportunity to bond, explore, and imagine. 💛 Make reading time interactive and fun; it sparks curiosity, builds language skills, and strengthens your connection. 📖

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Our partnership with CTF Alabama helps us change that, meeting the early relational health and literacy needs of children and families, where they are, in primary care medical offices and helping to provide children and families with books.

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As we kick off September and National Literacy Month, we are excited to announce we have once again been awarded a grant from @CTFofAL for 2025-2026!

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At Reach Out and Read-Alabama, we believe all families should have the tools and information to help their children learn to read and form a love of books. Many of the families that Reach Out and Read serves do not have any books at home.

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At Reach Out and Read-Alabama, we echo Dr. Strichik’s vision for Alabama’s future and value our partnership with @AlaVoices in building it together.

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Dr. Tracye Strichik took the helm at @AlaVoices Aug. 1 - bringing teaching roots, policy leadership and a vision to use the annual Kids Count Data Book to truly reflect what kids and families need. https://t.co/ep2PMlFAIT

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@ALDailyNews @AlaVoices At Reach Out and Read-Alabama, we echo Dr. Strichik’s vision for Alabama’s future and value our partnership with VOICES for Alabama’s Children in building it together.

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Healthy children. Strong readers. Better futures. 📚❤️

When a Reach Out and Read clinician shares a book with a child, talks to parents about reading aloud, and models how they can read together, they’re nurturing brain development, language skills, and emotional connection.

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Dr. Stitchik’s leadership brings a fresh vision rooted in both experience and passion for systems-level change. We look forward to working together to ensure Alabama’s youngest children are seen and heard through data, advocacy, and collective action.

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Congratulations to Dr. Tracye Stitchik, the new Executive Director of @AlaVoices. We deeply value our longstanding partnership with VOICES, an organization that has tirelessly championed policies to improve the well-being of every child across our state.