Photo Gallery
from our Camden Reach Out and Read Program at the
Our Lady of Lourdes-Osborne Clinic

Mom and daughter sharing an ROR .book in the waiting room

Our Lady of Lourdes - Osborne Clinic 1999-2000 ROR Volunteer Readers

At the start of the campaign there were only two sites for Reach out and Read Programs in Camden: One was at Cooper Hospital and the other at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital-Osborne Clinic. Both programs were in need of some additional resources. Now Reach Out and Read has expanded to seven sites throughout the city of Camden.

	Reach Out and Read makes early literacy part of pediatric primary care. At each "well child" visit pediatricians encourage parents to read to their children, even newborns.
	Volunteers reading to children in an Osborne waiting room					A reader is showing a patient an ROR poster at Osborne
	Beginning at age six months the doctor gives the child and parents a brand new, culturally appropriate children’s book to take home. By the time the child starts school he/she will have a home library of at least ten children’s books. Parents will understand that reading aloud is the most important thing they can do to help their child learn how to read and start school ready to learn.
	Curious George comes to Osborne , A Literacy Promotion Event at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital					Reach out and Read volunteers reading to children in hospital waiting room

For more information, please contact Angela Connor-Morris, MSW or
call Eb Bokas at the Osborne Clinic at 856-757-3700

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Camden Campaign for Children's Literacy Page

Center for Children and Childhood Studies Service and Outreach Page

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Last updated July 2, 2004