St. Michael’s Hospital and Toronto Public Library launch Reach Out and Read program to promote childhood literacy
In addition to flu shots and vitamins, family doctors at St. Michael’s Hospital are now prescribing books to their youngest patients.
The hospital’s Department of Family and Community Medicine and the Toronto Public Library have launched one of the first Reach Out and Read programs in Canada, and the first connected with a Canadian hospital.
Reach Out and Read is a three-part literacy promotion program developed by pediatricians and early childhood learners in Boston, with a special emphasis on low-income families. Read more here.
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