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Bookspring
2006 Greenbrook Parkway
Austin, Texas
78723 U.S.A
BookSpring provides essential literacy programs to the Austin-area. We are the local provider of nationally-renowned literacy programs Reading Is Fundamental and Reach Out and Read. BookSpring formed from the merger of these two local organizations with the purpose of increasing the literacy level of our community's children. The organizations merged on March 1, 2008, to create a new organization - BookSpring. We have the unique opportunity to reach families at the very earliest point in their child's development and encourage and support them in taking advantage of the critical early months and years of brain development.
BookSpring focuses on increasing the literacy level of our community by changing the literacy-related behaviors of parents and students. Our objective is to make book sharing and reading aloud an integral part of family activities so that children grow up from infancy with books and a love of reading. While retaining the current programs, we plan to develop additional program models to create a continuum of literacy development opportunities for prospective and current parents in the Austin area.
Two important indicators of the success of a society are the level of literacy of its children and youth, and the extent of disparities in literacy skills among children and youth with differing characteristics and family backgrounds. The inability to read well can have a direct impact on an individual's self-esteem and ability to advance socially and academically. The vast majority of high school drop-outs, welfare recipients, and prisoners score poorly on reading assessments, and low literacy levels are strongly associated with low paying jobs, unemployment, poverty, and, crime.
We:
* Support families with the tools they need to cultivate reading from birth on.
* Serve as a pace setter and community catalyst to illustrate how reading can unleash all that every individual has the capacity to become.
* Organize collaboration with others to provide improved access to literacy opportunities.
* And, most importantly, open the world to children through reading.