Reach Out and Read Taiwan
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Mission Statement
Our mission is to build a world where children are read to every day. We advocate the positive effects of reading daily with young children.Reading together promotes healthy brain development and helps families build meaningful bonds.Our network of medical teams provides families at routine check-ups with the knowledge and tools they need to make reading a part of their daily routine. By integrating reading aloud into primary care, we reach many children across taiwan—most of whom come from low-income families. Together, we can make reading a part of every child’s life and help provide all young people with a foundation for success throughout their lives. We are also here for parents so that they can be there for children. Helping your children navigate through the challenges of early childhood as they are being introduced to the world is filled with excitement! And spending time with a loving adult provides exceptional benefits. The simple act of reading aloud together helps create a lasting emotional connection, stimulates a child’s cognitive development, and lays the groundwork for a lifelong love of reading and learning. At a time when youngsters are most in need for one-on- one engagement with a loved one, we want to encourage and grow those opportunities. We are here for you so you can be there for them, because we believe in the remarkable potential of children and the pure joy of watching – and helping – them grow. We believe in the power of parents – to express their love for their babies and toddlers and children through the positive interactions that happen around the books. We believe in the power of those neural connections that are forged inside a young child’s brain through that give and take, through those words and stories and questions and answers, all in the setting of family routines and physical affection. We know that the families we serve are rich in talent and potential – but not always in opportunity. Still, we believe that we can help parents do what they most want to do – use books and stories and words to help their children grow into everything that they can possibly be, by reading with them, telling stories, asking and answering questions, and explaining the world. We will maximize the potential of primary care to promote the positive interactions that foster healthy development during the critical early years of a child’s life.We imagine a future in which medical healthcare providers support positive interactions through early literacy promotion as a standard of care. Parents are well supported as they engage their young children as part of the daily routine and understand the crucial role they play in laying the foundation for healthy development. Last but not the least, all children grow up with books and reading, with talking and with singing in the arms of those who love them and care for them. Our long term goals are enactment of policies that drive change in attitude, practice , funding of feasible and impactful best practice, and physicians equipped with skills to effectively support strong caregiver-child relationships. Furthermore, our strategy is working as part of a movement that aims to make the promotion of positive, language-rich interactions the standard of care, our Next Chapter strategy involves four central priorities. First of all , to create momentum for change within primary care. Secondly , equip clinicians with skills that effectively promote early relational health, particularly through early literacy strategies. Thirdly, Craft and implement a policy agenda to advance strategies delivered in the medical primary care setting that promote early brain development, early literacy and school readiness.Finally, Implement a research agenda to optimize the integration of promotion of early relational health through early literacy into well child visits It would be our honor to serve and support families all over this country who are doing their best for their children, over and above their disproportionate burdens of poverty, environmental pollution, and other toxins which prevent healthy growth and development. We want to acknowledge that just as it is our mission to help children grow up understanding and appreciating the world, it is also our duty and obligation to make sure that the world is worthy of these children – all these children. We think now of the families, of the promises made – and kept – when parents hold young children and read to them, and we remind ourselves of the larger promises which need to be made and kept by us all.
About This Cause
Taiwan Reach Out and Read Taiwan (RORTW) was founded by Dr. Chen Youda in 2015. The ROR model supported by empirical research in the United States in 1989 has been integrated into Taiwan’s medical system. The service model is based on medical care. The service targets are mainly families with preschool-age children, including families with intergenerational education, new immigrants, and 3C dependence leading to neglect of care and other high-risk families. Dr. Chen Youda went to ROR in the United States for training twice. After returning to Taiwan, he established medical parent-child sharing training materials, established a bilateral exchange mechanism between Taiwan and the United States, and held seminars to encourage Taiwanese medical staff to use the National Health Administration to subsidize children 7 times before the age of 7 Outpatient evaluation of development opportunities, regular and valuable opportunities that can go through most families, use children's books as a tool for child development evaluation, issue reading and parenting prescriptions, and combine child behavior to promote parent-child reading and provide professional parenting skills. Currently, it has won support from The Department of Health Policy, popular science videos, health education videos and other materials, and they are included in the promotion of parent-child reading in the evaluation of the neonatal room, post-natal care home, maternal and child friendly 2.0 hospital, etc. In addition, the Taiwan Pediatric Medical Association Supported by the National Federation of Medical Associations, the National Federation of Midwives and Midwives Associations of the Republic of China. In addition, the Taiwan Outreach Reading Association regularly organizes reading volunteer recruitment and training courses. The trained volunteers will go to the cooperative medical base to tell stories to parents and children, and gain the pleasure of reading by companies such as Uni-President and Medtronic. Staff training and participation in volunteer day activities. The Taiwan Outreach Reading Association assisted medical institutions in establishing waiting reading corners and recruiting children's books, providing more than 8,000 children's books a year to more than 60 medical centers in 14 counties and cities. For families in specific remote areas, the association regularly sends teams of physicians, teachers, and students to support remote medical institutions, kindergartens, and day care centers for the elderly by cooperating with colleges and hospitals to organize group health education and shared reading for the elderly. And family visits. The Taiwan Outreach Reading Association is based on medical care and meets SDG3 to achieve the goals of preventing child development delays, delaying dementia of the elderly, and promoting community well-being; in line with SDG4, it brings high-quality education to high-risk families, including families with preschool children Professional parenting guidelines and family companionship skills for the elderly to achieve continuous education to delay the occurrence of dementia. The service area of the team includes high-risk homes in remote areas; it is in line with SDG10 to shorten urban and rural preschool education and medical inequality. Our services include the training and promotion activities such as holding international seminars, domestic continuing education courses for medical-related personnel, providing medical students with follow-up consultations, training medical school service teams, and developing related parent-child reading and assessment skills. The model of cooperation with the Taipei Medical University affiliated hospital has a one-year influence including reaching 263 families, 1248 group health education (including the old and young), 87 doctors/medical students, 153 volunteers, and 18 education and training. field. In addition, training for non-medical personnel includes the following: serving as a policy advisory committee member for the Ministry of Education to promote reading, assisting the National Taiwan Library in remote reading seeds, Taipei Taichung Qiming School, Taipei Wenshan Special Education Teacher Training, New Taipei City Library, Taichung Seed training for librarians and volunteers from the Municipal Library and Kaohsiung City Library. Other venues include parent-child homes, postnatal care homes, baby-care centers, nurseries, kindergartens, corporate employees, volunteer training, Taiwan Reading Festival, etc. The physical activities are estimated to touch more than 9,000 people each year. In the future, it will focus on expanding its influence and sustainability in terms of university social responsibility, corporate social responsibility, and local creation. Assisting in the establishment of medical bases: Currently, the supporting bases are located in 60+ medical bases in 14 counties and cities. In the future, we will continue to cooperate with the Society of Pediatric Medicine, the Society of Family Medicine, the Society of Nursing, the Society of Nursing, the Society of Midwives, and the National Health Administration of the Ministry of Health and Welfare to increase the visibility and research atmosphere of parent-child reading together in education and training activities. Next,we provide talking pedometer service: Currently planning a business model. In the future, it is planned to provide parents with rental devices. Trained professionals will interpret reports and give advice on parenting skills to improve children's vocabulary skills. In the future, we will work towards precision medicine and precision education. The problems we are facing are_ Child developmental delay, Cognitive weakness of the elderly and the inequality of Medical and education. The solutions we provide are to establish a prevention model that promotes the development of children and the cognitive decline of the elderly, and spread it to more places where it is needed. It is pointed out from the past literature that the intervention of the ROR model can bring about huge changes, including the willingness of parents to increase the frequency of reading with their children by 2.5 times, parents and children more enjoyment of shared reading activities, or the amount of children’s books placed at home by 2.5 times, and parents’ willingness Spending more than 3 days a week to read together with children increased twice, and children’s language development improved for 3-6 months. The higher the frequency of reading with extended arms, the more children’s language ability improved. Moreover, Introduce new technologies with empirical support, and currently use talking pedometers, VR cognitive training devices, and virtual-actual integrated education methods to improve service quality. It is hoped that in the process of designing dialogue-like shared reading activities, the number of conversations between children and the elderly will be promoted. And use wearable sensing technology to collect data, and then use artificial intelligence to establish auxiliary training methods and provide personalized recommendations for health education and caregivers.Lastly, our team steadily expands support locations, and cooperates with local medical care and education institutions to implement culturally friendly literacy improvement plans for high-risk groups and residents in remote areas. We are looking forward to being like Reach Out and Read, a non-profit organization in the United States. Hoping that reading can reach most of Taiwan’s medical institutions, especially in remote areas and special ethnic groups (such as new immigrant families, intergenerational parenting families) to promote preschool parent-child reading. After that we want to take root in medical education,like holding training seminars for medical personnel and colleges and universities. Through education and training, children's behavior and early literacy promotion can be rooted down, which can be connected with university social responsibility. Become a preschool co-reading platform,to create more horizontal connections with the outside world, combine with social corporate responsibilities, train employees to become reading volunteers, and matchmaking services to adopt a stronghold. Cooperate with publishers to develop book lists and publicity activities to promote children's reading culture from a medical perspective. Following on Introduce wearable devices and big data analysis: It would be more accurate to use talking pedometer technology to measure the progress of service objects, provide customized health and education advice for high-risk families, and develop into a sustainable business model. We aim to insist the value proposition of reading with outstretched arms, address the health problems of vulnerable groups such as the prevention of child developmental delay and delay the dementia of the elderly, and practice the commitment to supporters with the professionalism of members, and continue to commit to SDG 3, 4, and 10 goals.Establish and maintain customer relationships: Invite core sponsors to participate in public activities (such as medical staff education and training speeches, donation ceremonies of the Health Bureau), participate in rural services, book fundraising activities, charity gift boxes or related cultural and creative products Pedestrian or VR cognitive training experience, occasional sweepstakes on social networking sites, voluntary participation in events invited by sponsors, regular reporting of service results, publicity materials listing sponsor information, and key resources (relevant government departments, US ROR organizations, consultants , Society, Industrial Technology Research Institute engineers, researchers, physicians and teachers, project cooperation units) to maintain a good relationship.