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Our Partners

The Reading Connection's partners are a combination of shelters, affordable apartment complexes and private social service agencies providing services to low-income and at-risk families.  Eighteen such housing and service agencies currently partner with TRC to provide their clients access to the Read-Aloud program, the Book Club or Reading Families Workshops. 

ALIVE! House (Read-Aloud Program, Reading Families Workshops, Literacy Advocates Trainings)

Alexandria Relocation and Housing Authority (ARHA)/Ruby Tucker Center (Read-Aoud Program, Reading Families Workshops, Literacy Advocates Trainings)

Alternative House/Assisting Young Mothers (Book Club, Reading Families Workshops, Literacy Advocates Trainings)

Arlington Alexandria Coalition for the Homeless (AACH)/Sullivan House (Read-Aloud Program, Reading Families Workshops)

Arlington Early Head Start (Book Club, Reading Families Workshops, Literacy Advocates Trainings)

Arlington Housing Corporation (AHC)/Woodbury Park/Virginia Gardens/The Berkeley Community Centers (Read-Aloud Program, Reading Families Workshops, Literacy Advocates Trainings)

Artemis House (Read-Aloud Program, Reading Families Workshops)

Carpenter's Shelter (Read-Aloud Program, Book Club, Reading Families Workshops)

Center for Alexandria's Children (Book Club, Reading Families Workshops, Literacy Advocates Trainings)

Doorways for Women and Families/Freddie Mac Family Home (Book Club, Reading Families Workshops)

Healthy Families Alexandria (Book Club, Reading Families Workshops, Literacy Advocates Trainings)

Healthy Families Arlington (Book Club, Reading Families Workshops, Literacy Advocates Trainings)

Healthy Families Fairfax (Book Club, Reading Families Workshops, Literacy Advocates Trainings)

Healthy Families Washington, DC (Book Club, Literacy Advocates Trainings)

House of Ruth/Freedom Place  (Read-Aloud Program, Reading Families Workshops)

New Hope Housing/Next Steps Family Program (Read-Aloud Program, Reading Families Workshops)

So Others Might Eat (SOME)/Independence Place (Read-Aloud Program, Reading Families Workshops)

Partner Feedback

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We need feedback from our partners about the impact of our Reading Families Workshops and our Literacy Advocates Trainings to the improve and obtain funding for our programs.

By completing evaluation and report forms online, you help strengthen TRC programs! Wondering which form to use?  Read the descriptions below and click!

Did TRC staff or volunteers lead a Reading Families Workshop for your clients?  After you followed-up with those parents about the impact of the training, please complete the TRC-Led Reading Families Workshop Follow-Up Evaluation.

Did YOU lead a TRC-style Reading Families workshop with your clients?  Please complete the Partner-Led Reading Families Workshop Report Form.

Did YOU attend a Literacy Advocates Training to learn new strategies for promoting reading with your clients?  How did you use the information you learned at the training?   Please complete the Literacy Advocates Training Impact Form.

How can I contribute?

Make a wish come true!

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Children participating in the Read-Aloud program choose a new book to keep for their own each week. Almost all of the 3,500 books distributed in this way in 2012 were books donated by the community.  TRC kids have recently asked for the books listed below, which are available at any bookstore with a children's department. 

You can help us answer a child's book wish! 

 

  • Duckling Gets a Cookie by Mo Willems
  • Captain Underpants by Dav Pilkey
  • Amelia Bedelia by Peggy Parrish'
  • Books from the Baby Mouse series by Jennifer L. Holm and Matt Holm
  • Scholastic Year in Sports 2012 by James Buckley Jr.
  • National Geographic Kids Almanac by National Geographic Kids
  • Interrupting Chicken by David Ezra Stein
  • Books from the Lunch Lady series by Jarrett J. Krosoczka
  • Books from the Bone series by Jeff Smith

More books to donate to TRC kids