The Family and Community Engagement Webinar

What’s your favorite childhood book?

Agenda America’s Literacy

Crisis Reading Action

Program Overview Literacy and

Early Reading Lions Impact

Jackie Harvey, Scholastic

Activity Planning Resources

Discussion Session/Q&A

“Child development is a foundation for community development and economic development, as capable children become the foundation of a prosperous and sustainable society.” -Dr. Dipesh Navsaria, ROAR

America’s Literacy Crisis

One out of five households in the U.S. does not have access to books.

75% of students who are poor readers in 3rd grade remain poor readers in high school.

Two-thirds of America’s children living in poverty have no books at home, and the number of families living in poverty is on the rise.

The Literacy Paradigm

What’s your favorite childhood book?

The Reading Action Program provides an important opportunity for Lions to help bridge the gaps in literacy and education in their communities. • Increase literacy among children and adults• Improve access to inclusive education• Bridge the digital divide and provide access to

books• Place new emphasis on existing Lions

programs, including services for people with vision loss

Reading Action Program

Service Activities

Lions reported

over 82,000 Reading Action

Program activities.

Service Hours

Reporting clubs dedicated over

2.4 million hours to literacy and education

related activities.

People Served

Lions served over

8 million people through Reading Action Program

projects worldwide.

Ways to get Involved• Include books in holiday gift baskets• Host Scholastic book fairs at your local

school and other community locations• Organize a book giveaway for

International Literacy Day• In December and January, provide books

at food banks under the “Relieving the Hunger” Campaign

• Donate books to hospitals – children’s waiting areas, books for hospitalized children

Jackie Harvey Director of Community and District Wide

Partnerships at Scholastic

Who is ScholasticWhy is Reading

Critical to SuccessWhat is FACEHow Can You Join

FACE

AgendaWhat Can We Do to

Help LionsDifferent OptionsNext Steps

• International Company – It Matters All Over World!

• Largest Publisher of Children’s Books in World• Only About Literacy…Read Every Day. Lead a

Better Life• Started by a Former Teacher. Filled with Former

Teachers

93 Years Old!

“Reading is key to a child’s cognitive, emotional and social health. Giving a book to a child is more important than giving DVDs, flash cards and educational games. The first 3 years of life, the brain is wired in ways it will never be wired again. Reading at the earliest ages is critical to brain development.”

- Dr. Dipesh Navsaria, Pediatrician and Reach Out and Read

Reading is CRITICAL

• Reading…• Exercises our brains. (Much more complex than watching TV)• Builds neuro-connections in the brain• Improves concentration• Teaches children about the world• Improves vocabulary• Helps build writing skills• Develops a child’s imagination• Gives children empathy and understanding of cause and effect• Helps children perform better at school• Gives a child a chance at life and choices• Changes the entire family

Why is Reading Critical?

“A child growing up with several books in their environment completes an average of up to three years more schooling than a child who has no access to books in their environment.”

– Evans, Kelley, Sikora & Treiman, 2010

“Literacy, the ability to read, write and understand, is the birthright of every child in the world, as well as the pathway to succeed in school and to realize a complete life.”

- Scholastic’s Reading Bill of Rights

• Extends literacy beyond the classroom to accelerate academic success

• Supports learning occurring in schools to build the home-school connection

• Brings research-based programs and strategies that support children from birth through high school by focusing on five pillars….

Benefits of FACE

• Membership Program – to make sure children receive books

• NO FEES – It’s a FREE Membership• No MINIMUMS• No MAXIMUMS• FREE Shipping• 45%-80% Off List Price

FACE

How Does that Work?Fill out a FACE ApplicationFACE Customer Service will contact

youYou will get your own membership

numberYou can give that number to anyone

who wants to give books to kidsEach club needs to have own

number

FACE

FACE FAX NUMBER:888-598-0415

Online Application:http://teacher.scholastic.com/products/

face-new/become-a-member.html

• FAX FACE Application: 888-598-0415• Go Online to: http://

teacher.scholastic.com/products/face-new/become-a-member.html or just Google Scholastic FACE Ap and you will be taken to the application!

• Mail the application in• Contact Jackie Harvey at jharvey@scholastic.com• Contact Kate Barcal at Lions

programs@lionsclubs.org• FACE Catalog and Brochure have Application

Applying to FACE

FACE FAX NUMBER: 888-598-0415FACE Customer Service: 800-387-1437

Mail FACE AP: Scholastic

Customer Maintenance

P.O. Box 7502

Jefferson City, MO. 65102

1. Maurene’s Team

2. FACE Customer Service

If you do know what you would like to do, we can help. If you need some guidance on possibilities and options, we can help.

WE ARE READY TO HELP YOU

• At eye screenings, give books away• Books can even be about vision and eye care

• When giving eyeglasses• Books can even be about vision and eye care

• When reading to children• Give that book to children

• Summer Fests – Invest in Summer Reading• Give packs of books to children for summer

We can help you with what you are doing now

• Set up a Lions Literacy Den• Place where families come together• Parent trainings• Underprivileged children come for computer time

• STORIA ebooks from Scholastic• Adopt a Classroom or School• Implement a Mentor Program• Mentor a Class• Mentor a Child

More Service Opportunities

• Vision and Eye Care• Health and Wellness – Diabetes• Hearing• Cultures• Spanish and Bilingual Books• Disaster Relief – so important to not stop a child’s

learning

Collections to Support your Projects

• Oklahoma – Disaster Relief• Rebuilding community libraries, school libraries and home

libraries• Post disaster, attention to a child, as in reading to a child is

healing that child

• Kansas• Funds given to Host City from Lion’s Clubs to local Lions to

find opportunities to reach underprivileged children and give them books

Ways We Are Partnering Now

• Food Bank – give away books• Holiday Celebrations – give away books• Adopt a Child at Holidays – more books than toys• Winter and Spring Break – send books home• Homeless Shelters – kids need a sense of ownership• Doctor’s Offices and Waiting Areas

Other Ideas: Books are an Investment in a Child’s Future

• Engaging our Youth Campaign• International Literacy Day• Sharing the Vision• World Sight Day• International Day of the Girl• Diabetes Awareness Month• World Diabetes Day• Lions Eye Bank Week• Eye Donor Awareness Month• International Women’s Day• Protecting our Environment• Earth Day• Recycle for Sight Month• Hunger Relief Campaign• Pancake Breakfasts• Summer Fests• Community Gatherings

When Can You Give Books?

Hospitals

“Stories … help children cope with the worries and fears precipitated by illness,

medical procedures, and hospitalizations.” -Southern Medical Journal, vol 77, no 3

Triangulation of Partners to Benefit the Children and Community

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• Nationwide Children’s Hospital believes it takes more than medicine to have a healthy child.

• Hospitals can be frightening and lonely experiences. Books provide comfort, security, imagination and levity during a stressful time in a child’s life.

• Parents and families can find relationships altered when they have a child in the hospital. Books bring people together.

The Issue

• Hospital-bound children need as much control of their activities as possible and opportunities to make choices.

• Some children have weakened immune systems due to chemotherapy and other treatments.

• Books that are borrowed often cause problems as they carry germs.

• Reading helps children transition from the hospital to the home and back into the classroom.

The Issue

• Sick children having a sense of ownership of their books allows them to feel safe and secure and a sense of self.

• Being able to use one’s imagination, taken to a different place, away from health problems when being bound to a hospital room is a great health benefit.

• Social-emotional development is the foundation for cognitive development. When a child is emotionally well and feeling secure, brain development continues. Reading is a conduit to this.

The Benefit

• Language skills continue to develop• Adults can bond with children over books.• Children in hospitals will be less likely to

fall behind in schools, suffering educationally, by reading, sharing and owning books.

• Reading – and being read to – can make a huge difference to a child’s health. Books divert a child’s attention away from their pain. They entertain children, reduce stress and provide comfort and reassurance.

The Benefit

• Complete and send in FACE Application• Customer service will email you your FACE membership number• If you are interested, contact:

• Jackie Harvey: jharvey@scholastic.com, 630-219-8595• Customer Service

• National Scholastic Team can…• Visit with you in person to brainstorm ideas• Visit with you in person to share ideas from country• Offer a session to your club on literacy, children, learning• Attend your gatherings to build capacity and awareness

Whatever your project is….

we now have a call to action

Next Steps

• New Partnership• Scholastic• FACE – Faces of Children• FACE Application• Options: Turn-key Program or Customize• Next Steps• THANK YOU!

To conclude…

• Call to Action Flyer

• Project Idea Sheet

• Planning Guide

• Community Needs Assessment

• Sample Press Release

• Bookmarks

• Diploma

Resources

Please contact us at programs@lionsclubs.org and visit our website for more resources.

Thank you!