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1 Read Lead SUCCEED!

2 SOMSRFT Advocacy Campaign 2012-2013
AAP Section of Medical Student, Residents and Fellowship Trainees Annual Campaign focused on Advocacy Provides a framework for YOU to get involved and create an advocacy project of your own Successful campaigns in the past focused on smoking, vaccines, obesity and voting for kids!

3 Just the Facts More than 1/3 of 4th graders read so poorly they cannot complete their schoolwork successfully Children who develop more literacy skills in the preschool years perform better in the primary grades Reading just 20 minutes per night corresponds to a 10 point increase on literacy tests Results of the 2007 National Assessment of Educational Progress Source: National Institute for Literacy

4 The Problem One in four children grow up without learning how to read
53% of children ages 3-5 are read to daily by a family member Only 3-5% of children are able to read phonemically by kindergarten In addition, 22% of American adults have minimal literacy skills, 44 million cannot even read a simple story to their child

5 Everyone Deserves to Read
62% of parents with a high socioeconomic status read to their children every day For America’s poorest children, the biggest obstacle to literacy is the scarcity of books and appropriate reading material 85% of juvenile delinquents are functionally illiterate Bullet one- compared to only 36% of parents with a low socioeconomic status. This translates to one third to one half as many words heard. The gap between children from low- and high-income families on reading comprehension scores is more than 40 points

6 Why Literacy Matters Children who are read to regularly are more likely to: Know their alphabet Count higher Write their own name Read themselves Decreased high school drop out rate Decreased chance of ending up in jail or on welfare In a study conducted of kindergartners, those who were read to at least three times a week as they entered kindergarten were almost twice as likely to score in the top 25 percent of literacy tests than children who were read to less than three times a week 15 minutes a day of independent reading can expose students to more than a million words of text in a year Children without basic literacy skills are times more likely to drop out 66% of children who cannot read proficiently by the end of 4th grade will end up in jail or on welfare The estimated cost of illiteracy is $73 million per year of direct health care costs

7 How can you get involved?
Continuity Clinic Residency Program Hospital Community State Federal

8 Continuity Clinic Reinforce literacy at each WCC
Ensure every child receives a book Learn to assess literacy with Reach Out and Read tools/curriculum Emphasize importance of Dad reading Create library resource for parents How to obtain library card Story times at local libraries for children Bullet one- better to give the book prior to the visit, time for reading in the waiting room. Tools for ROR stages of reading are included in this CD. Use them to educate your families on important reading milestones

9 Use these milestones to educate your parents and encourage them to start reading at an early age
Courtesy of Reach Out and Read

10 Continuity Clinic Develop a QI project
Assess how often parents read to their children Assess how long parents read for Write a prescription for reading 20 min per night Assess how parents choose books Give examples of age appropriate books In addition you could Assess literacy level of parents and Learn how to screen parents literacy levels Assess what age parents begin reading/think it is important? Reinforce that it is never to early to start reading! Children 0-5 should be read to for at least 20 min per night. There is a prescription for reading on the CD for you to print and hand out to your patients A sample questionaire is included on the CD. It can be handed out to patients before and after a period of counseling and you could track for a change in responses

11 Residency Program/Hospital
Coordinate volunteers to read to inpatient wards/chronic care centers/dialysis units, etc. Dedicate a journal club/advocacy group/noon conference to early childhood literacy Commit to every resident becoming certified with Reach Out and Read Free online module/video curriculum Bullet one- Partner with medical student interest groups/hospital volunteers/pre-med groups In addition you could Create a hospital library or publicize an existing one

12 Community Present… Redecorate… Support….
Other examples include Organize a book drive Organize a health fair at a local book store

13 Community Present to parent groups at local schools about literacy and it’s importance Redecorate/renovate a local school or shelter’s library Support adult literacy classes, Could publicize, sponsor, provide space Other examples include Organize a book drive Organize a health fair at a local book store

14 State & Federal Literacy Funding
Most funding for literacy efforts came from federal appropriations and congressional provisions Major literacy initiatives are now applying for competitive federal grants to supplement private donations Due to cuts in federal funding less support for literacy efforts is available

15 State & Federal Opportunities
Contact your Congressperson and Senator to have them support the Prescribe A Book Act Participate in the literacy advocacy day on Capitol Hill Reach out and Read State Representative Each state has a rep actively involved in legislative advocacy with projects easy to get involved with Bullet 1: (PABA: House Bill 820; Senate Bill 393) Bullet 2: in Washington DC in March 2013 (in support of PABA, local libraries, and other similar initiatives) Bullet 3: If you are interested in writing a letter to your legislature there are contacts (by state) for your local reach out and read representatives on the CD. They would be happy to assist you. You could create a letter writing campagin specific to the needs of your community.

16 National Screen Free Week
April 28 - May 4 Prescribe a TV/screen free day and offer activities to do instead Encourage each child to pick a day to be screen free Other important literacy dates can be found on the literacy calendar A sample prescription is located on the CD, this can be handed out as a prescribtion for a screen free day. A calander of events is provided so you can get involved. There is also a RX to give to children to turn off the TV provided on the CD. Sponsored by Campaign for Commercial-free Childhood

17 National Residency Competition
Get involved Choose a project/group to commit to as a residency program or come up with your own! Tell us about it Each program delegate will communicate with the AAP about the project and it’s success Get recognized An overall winner will be chosen and eligible for prizes! Unveil your project idea to your program/communuty from April The AAP will be promoting this week as our literacy advocacy week. From then until september SOMSRFT will be hightlighting a “project of the month.” At the NCE in 2013 we will reveal a winner, who will be in for a BIG prize!

18 Resources 1. Committee on Early Childhood
Staff contact: Charlotte Zia, 2. Section on Early Education and Child Care Staff contact: Jeanne VanOrsdal, 3. Literacy Toolkit Accessible via the Committee on Early Childhood webpage and directly at:

19 References National Institute for Literacy (2006). The Early Childhood Longitudinal Study. Available online. U.S. Department of Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement, National Center for Education Statistics (1996). National Household Education Study, Washington DC: Author. National Center for Education Statistics (1993) The Condition of Education. Washington DC: National Center for Education Statistics. Needlman R, Fried L, Morley D, Traylor S, Zuckerman B. Clinic-Based Intervention to Promote Literacy. American Medical Association American Journal of Diseases of Children; 145(881) 1991. National Center for Educational Statistics,caliteracy.org


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