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Family of Readers is a family reading service that currently serves over 158,000 children and their parents across the country, focusing on educationally at-risk children, from birth through elementary school, and their families. Family of Readers helps parents develop the skills and self-assurance to take a leading role in supporting their children's reading and learning while their children learn to love books.
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Questions? Interested in Applying? Please note: Given our limited resources and the high demand for federal grant funds, we cannot predict how long your program will need to remain on our waiting list. We estimate that it could be a year or more before we can allocate federal funds to start new programs.
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Over the course of the sessions, parents learn about children's books and participate in skills workshops on topics such as how to read aloud to children. Parents are then asked to apply their newly acquired skills to the planning and execution of a RIF program. Working on committees, and with limited guidance from a staff advisor, parents select and order children's books for free distribution, recruit other parents, and plan reading motivation activities for their children.
Family of Readers is used effectively in ABE, GED, and parenting programs that also seek to reach children. This literacy service adds value to Head Start and other child-serving programs interested in increasing parental involvement, while also reinforcing the goals of intergenerational programs such as Even Start. 
