2. 1 Bringing it Home: Taking ALA’s Every Child Ready to Read program to your library Presentation by: Every Child Ready To Read @ Dallas Jo Giudice, Administrator of youth services Jasmine Africawala, Program coordinator 2011 TLA Annual Conference FOLLOW US ON TWITTER: ecrrtla2011

3. 2 History What is ECRR? ECRR @ DPL Art component Book giveaway DALI Mayor’s OfficeDallas Public Library

4. 3 Partnerships Roll in existing partners Dallas Museum of Art, Junior League of Dallas, Parks & Recreation

5. Crossing Boundaries Getting out of the Library! Farmer’s Market Parkland Hospital clinics WIC clinics City Arts Festival Health Fairs Frank Crowley Jail State Fair of Texas

6. 5 Listening to your community Can children come to ECRR workshops? Do your facilitators speak Spanish? Does ECRR teach children to read? Does ECRR help school-aged children?

7. 6 Tailoring your program ALA’s Design Early Talker workshop (0 to 2 yr) Talker workshop (2 and 3 yr) Pre-Reader workshop (4 and 5 yr) ECRR@D’s Design Born to Read Full workshop (0-2 yr) Discovering Books Print motivation & awareness Letters & Words Letter knowledge & vocabulary Stories & Sounds Narrative skills & phonological awareness

8. 7 The Evolution of a program A Resource to the Community: ECRR website resources Early childhood professional development trainings Emerging Reader workshop (August 2011) Home-instruction DVD (August 2011)

9. 8 Grant support - Sustainability Get the money ball rolling International City and County Managers Association (ICMA) U. S. Department of Education

10. 9 Grant support - Sustainability And the ball rolls forward Junior League of Dallas Better World Books/NCFL Dollar General and Target

11. 10 Setting program goals Outputs versus Outcomes “Feel-good” not good enough Be realistic in program goals and objectives

12. Our program objectives Encourage parents/caregivers: To be more aware of the importance of early literacy To spend more book sharing time with their children To engage in more literacy-based activities with their children To visit the library more 11

13. 12 Evaluation processes Pre-workshop survey Post-workshop survey Follow-up evaluation phone calls

14. 13 Tracking results Maintaining statistical database # of parents # of children Race/Ethnicity Customer satisfaction More aware of the importance Reading more with your children Engaging in more literacy-based activities Visiting the library more

15. 14 Measuring outcomes Review data Assess outcomes Adapt program for success Outcomes are evidence to defend continued funding AND to attract new funding

16. WARNING! Bragging will commence in… 15

17. Our Successes: March 2008-NOW 26,667 children affected through workshops 835 workshops conducted in community 15,021 parents and caregivers attended workshops 81% Hispanic or African-American 16,053 people attended State Fair program 99% are more aware of the importance 75% will read more with their children 84% engage in more literacy-based activities 23% attend libraries more than before 16

18. 17 Visit us online! www.dallaslibrary.org/ecrr

19. 18 Questions? Share your successes!

20. 19 Stay in touch! ECRR@dallaslibrary.org Jasmine.africawala@dallaslibrary.org Maryjo.giudice@dallaslibrary.org 214-671-8291