Born To Read Inc.

The mission of  Born To Read is to promote early childhood literacy and language development while helping parents understand their critical role as their child's first and most important teacher.

Born To Read volunteers visit new parents in the birthing centers at Hilton Head, Coastal Carolina and Beaufort Memorial hospitals to talk to them about the importance of reading and talking to their babies daily  to help prepare their children to read and be ready for school.  An early literacy resource bag is given to each family that provides 2 books and other resource materials to assist the parents in understanding why  and how to do this efficiently and effectively.

Parents are sent a quarterly newsletter that provides age appropriate resources to help them continue building their child's vocabulary and language skills.  These newsletters give information that goes through the child's first 15 months of life.   We also provide additional information and resources on our website and Facebook page. Born To Read  strives to serve our at-risk population before babies are born through a partnership with Stork's Nest, an incentive program designed to encourage prenatal care. In addition, Born To Read provides sibling books to both programs to help build at-home family libraries. With our recently expanded program to provide parents support for their children through age 3, Born To Read provides free Parent Reading Workshops.