SUNY Broome Community College’s Center for Civic Engagement announces the creation of The Literacy Legacy Project of Broome County, aims to work with the community to develop and foster high quality early learning and literacy experiences for all children in the county.
“We know that change happens best close to where families live their lives, through trusting relationships and networks in the community. Therefore, we are committed to working with the community to promote literacy awareness and engagement,” said SUNY Broome Professor Lisa Strahley, who has developed the program.
The mission of the Literacy Legacy Project is to promote, inspire and support a culture of talking and reading to young children as part of everyday life in families and communities. The program will share high-quality resources and models to ensure that all children in Broome County are surrounded by an abundance of literacy-rich experiences, beginning at birth. In short, adults will be encouraged to talk, sing, read and play with their children every day.
In partnership with The Children’s Reading Connection and with the generous support from Assemblywoman Donna Lupardo, County Executive Jason Garnar and BAE Systems, this vision is becoming a reality.
STAY TUNED! Thanks to early sponsors, programs such Baby’s First Book, The Preschool Book and Welcome to Kindergarten will be launching over the next few months. Each of these programs will help deliver the message to all families that early language experiences on the laps of loved ones are how children’s brains are nourished, and also provide every young child in Broome County with their own book.
The Literacy Legacy Project is launching Talk It Up on April 26, 2018, as part of a multi-community reading of the book Thirty Million Words: Building a Child’s Brain by Dana Suskind. Talk It Up was developed by the Children’s Reading Connection founder, Brigid Hubberman.
To learn more about the Literacy Legacy Project of Broome County, visit www.sunybroome.edu/literacylegacy
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