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The W. O.
Frohring Family Resource Center
sponsors various programs that
promote literacy, education, and
support of patients and caregivers and families.
The Rainbow Reader
is our in-patient monthly newsletter at Rainbow
Babies and Children's Hospital. There are articles of information
for
parents and activities for patients. We have a partnership with
the
Family Advisory Council of RB&C.
Ready
to Read and Help
Me Grow
Once per month we team up
with WVIZ/PBS through our
Bedside Reading
Program. Ready to Read is a service of WVIZ's
preschool
educational program, KidTV
on VIZ PREP. They are committed
to giving children the
opportunity to read and own their first new book. The primary
goal of Ready to Read
is to distribute new books to families in need. Ready to
Read strives
to attain its goal by creating partnerships with organizations
committed to supporting
literacy efforts. We are partnering with KidTV on VIZ PREP to
bring happy moments
to hospitalized children. KidTV on VIZ PREP knows that books
change lives. The
simple gesture of giving a child a new book creates a wonderful
ripple effect
of joy, self-esteem, family bonding and learning. Ready to
Read also supplies
educational materials for parents with their child's book. They
include information
on watching television wisely with your child, how to foster
language development and
offer parenting tips, activities for families and much more.
There are materials
available in the Family Resource Center for
parents to read and use. The books that
are distributed are written for children between the ages of 3
and 6. Each month
we offer a new book. Watch for posters advertising the date and
time that
our KidPREP trainers will be visiting your child's floor.
Help Me Grow workshops
are scheduled for parents, teachers and child care providers.
Our KidPREP trainers instruct in-patient and out-patient
caregivers within RB&C
during scheduled periodic workshops. Topics include: Help Me
Learn,
Help Me Work It Out, Help Me Be Safe and Help Me Be Healthy.
For more information on programs,
please click on the title hyperlinks
above.
Programs provided to our RB&C patients by WVIZ/PBS and KidTV
on VIZ PREP
are funded by grants and services are provided free to us -
and we thank them for their generosity.
Exciting
Reading, Puppetry and Activities from Borders©
We are very excited to
have the Manager of the Beachwood, Ohio
Borders Books & Music© store providing our patients with monthly
activities.
There were will be storytelling, puppetry, costumed characters
(when available),
contests, and other activities each month. They will also bring a
book donation to our
Carol Carmany White Children's Library each time they
visit!
Watch for details in The Rainbow Reader and on
posters in the
Family Resource Center and in the Activity Room on your
floor.
Our Family Resource Center, as well as
RB&C's Child Life Department
and Art & Music Therapy programs have also received generous
donations
from Borders from local grand-opening events. Thank you, Borders!
Reach Out and
Read and
We support literacy
programs such as Reach Out and Read. Half-Price Books©
generously donates their time at
yearly events that benefit the patients and families of
Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital as well as our wider
community.
Every year we have been honored to receive books to add to our
Carol Carmany White Children's Library as well as supply
free books to our
RB&C patients from their Annual Half-Pint Library campaign.
Many Others
There are many other
individuals, groups, schools and businesses that will
periodically donate their time, talents or materials to our
programs and families.
We are grateful for them all.
If you would like to make a donation to any of our programs,
please contact us at (216) 844-1309 or call our hospital's
Development Department at (216) 844-1590.
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