Reading for Healthy Families
Purpose: The RFHF program, led by the Oregon Commission on Children and Families and the Oregon State Library, is designed to improve early literacy outcomes for high-risk children. Healthy Start home visitors and librarians will be trained to implement the “Every Child Ready to Read at Your Library” curriculum in all Oregon counties over a 3-year period. The goal of the evaluation is to document program outcomes, including frequency of parent-child literacy activities and family engagement with books and library services. The evaluation will also assess program implementation, including barriers and facilitators to delivering the curriculum to high-risk families.
Project Design:
- Pre/Post training surveys for staff receiving curriculum assessing changes in practice.
- Comparison of family outcomes for those families with workers trained in curriculum compared to those families with workers not yet trained in curriculum, including:
- Parent-child reading engagement
- Early reading practices
- Library use
Funding Source: Grants from the Oregon Community Foundation and the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation to the Oregon Commission on Children and Families (OCCF). Evaluation contract from OCCF.
Start Date: August 2008
