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| Teaching kids to read at Oakland, Dublin jails |
| By contracostatimes.com - Tammerline Drummond |
| Published: 03/28/2013 |
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Every week, children from across the Bay Area go through a sad ritual. They travel from Oakland, San Francisco, Richmond, Livermore -- sometimes as far away as Fresno -- to visit a parent in jail. Either Santa Rita in Dublin or North County Jail in downtown Oakland. They are among an estimated 2 million children across the U.S. with parents incarcerated in local jails, state or federal prison -- half of whom are 10 years old or younger. For obvious reasons, jail waiting areas are terrible, scary environments for kids. Lisa Harris used to see children -- some of them toddlers -- queued up outside Santa Rita with their moms waiting in line all day long. Harris, director of inmate literacy programs . Why not bring books to the jail for children and enlist volunteers from the community to read to them? The kids were a captive audience. Why not take advantage of this opportunity to help at-risk children, whose parents often suffer from poor literacy, improve their reading? And so, Start with a Story was born in 2006. Read More. |
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