Agency Details:

Make Way For Books

Our mission is to promote early literacy in limited resource areas of Tucson, Arizona by providing young children an opportunity to fall in love with books and reading. Our vision is that all children will enter school with the necessary early literacy skills to be successful. Each child, regardless of socioeconomic status, race, or gender will have daily exposure to books and reading.

Description:
All of our programs target young children living in limited resource areas of Tucson to develop the readiness skills necessary to succeed in life.

• MAKE WAY FOR BOOKS for Babies provides early literacy kits to at-risk new parents through collaboration with Healthy Families, a home visitation support program. We provide an early literacy workshop for the support specialists on how to use the materials in the kits with their clients.
• Our MAKE WAY FOR BOOKS Preschool Program provides preschools and childcare centers with libraries of new, quality multicultural books. Additionally we offer provider education workshops on effective ways to use books in the classroom and weekly storytimes conducted by trained volunteers.
• MAKE WAY FOR BOOKS at Home provides new paperback books to children at sites with the MAKE WAY FOR BOOKS Preschool Program in partnership with Reading Is Fundamental. We know that children who have books in their homes are at a distinct advantage in developing necessary readiness skills to be successful in school.
• During the summer months several centers served by the MWFB Preschool Program enroll school-age children (grades 1 – 5). The Summer Reading Buddies Program pairs school-age children (Big Buddies) with preschoolers (Little Buddies) for book-sharing sessions over a six-week period.
• We offer Family Literacy Events throughout the year to give parents the opportunity to celebrate books and reading with their children. Participants receive a family literacy kit that includes books and activities that relate to the storytime presented at the event. Parents leave with additional tools to support them as their child's first teacher.



Contact people:


Mary Jan Bancroft, Executive Director, (520) 721-2334, (email) Noel Hennessey, Program Coordinator, (520) 721-2334, (email) Diane Woods, Volunteer Coordinator, (email)


Office fax number: (520) 881-0669

Languages Spoken: English

Address:


3180 N Swan Rd Ste 100 Tucson, AZ 85712 (See a map)


Web Site: http://www.makewayforbooks.org

Directions:

We are located in the Villages office complex on the southeast corner of Swan and Camp Lowell. Our entrance is on the southwest end of the building #3180 (Ephibian). Call if you get lost!! 721-2334

Last updated on March 1, 2010