Making Books Part of a Healthy Childhood
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 4th Annual
Green Eggs and Ham
Breakfast benefitting
Reach Out and Read
Kansas City was a HUGE success

 Thank you for our hosts Will & Senia Shields

 Our Keynote Speaker Vivien Jennings

 Guest Readers Bryan Busby & Christa Dubill

 Master of Ceremonies Maria Antonia

 

 

Thank you to our Sponsors

Hallmark, Inc.

Will & Senia Shields and family

Children's Mercy Family Health Partners

 

 

 

 

Program Components:

  • Doctors and nurse practitioners are trained to give advice to parents about appropriate books and reading activities that support their child's healthy development.
  • Children get to take home a free, new, developmentally appropriate book at every check-up from birth to five years.
  • Trained volunteers read aloud to children in waiting rooms, modeling for parents how to share books and tell stories, and engage families in waiting room activities surrounding books and reading.