Attention:
Due to the enormous response received by educators in Tennessee, we have currently stopped accepting requests for Love. Read. Learn! Trainings. We apologize for the inconvenience, but we are at training capacity for TN for the current school year. However, if you are an educator and are interested in conducting a training in your school, please contact Teecy Matthews at teecy.matthews@volunteerusafund.org.

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As a child’s first teacher, parents have the ability to influence their future. Research has shown that parents’ involvement with their children, from birth to adulthood, increases a child’s achievement and self-esteem. Whether it is reading to your child, telling them stories, or taking trips to a park make the time you spend with your child, quality time.

Volunteer USA Foundation is proud to offer the Love. Read. Learn! ™ series which consists of three programs dedicated to helping parents teach children the joys of learning through literacy from birth on.

Love.Read.Learn! Inspire your Baby Journal

Take a look at this great keepsake journal for families of newborns. Parents have fallen in love with this scrapbook-type journal filled with tips to help parents nurture a love of learning from the very beginning. The baby journal is available for a nominal fee so that hospitals and birthing centers can provide this educational and fun resource to families of newborns! Click here to lean more.

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Love.Read.Learn! ™ Inspire your Preschooler Parent Training

This fun and engaging workshop is designed for busy moms and dads so they can help get their young children ready to learn. Parents spend just 75 minutes learning tips and educational games they can practice with their pre-school aged children. It provides parents with simple activities aimed to help children 3-5 years old achieve the building blocks they need to be ready to learn.

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Love.Read.Learn! Inspire your Child (K-3rd graders) Parent Training

This is a dynamic workshop for parents of elementary school children.  Our goals are to help parents teach their children and promote academic achievement. .

Love.Read.Learn™parent training meets required Title I parent involvement goals, Title I dollars may be used to cover workshops costs, as each parent will take home a family reading activity kit.

Schools and community organizations can learn more about hosting a workshop by contacting brandi.brown@volunteerusafound.org or charla.lancaster@volunteerusafund.org for information.

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Main Goals

• Be a parent and a teacher
• Keep reading to your child
• Give your child the love of learning

Although being a parent is a tremendous commitment that can offer challenges, it also offers many rewards. As your child’s first teacher you have the ability to influence their future success and your involvement is one of the keys to their readiness for school. Research studies have shown that parents’ involvement with their children, from birth to adulthood increases their children’s achievement and self-esteem. Please do not miss this “window of opportunity” in your child’s life. Take full advantage of every opportunity that you have as a parent to participate and be an active part of their success. Whether it is reading to your child, telling your child stories, or taking trips to a park or the grocery store, make the time you spend with your child, quality time. Begin now to provide your children with the necessary tools to become the wonderful people that you know and believe they can be.

Love.Read.Learn! ™ name and materials are the trademark property of Volunteer USA Foundation.