Communities Served:

Centers for Children in Crisis

Group Homes for Children and Teenagers

Homeless Shelters for Women and Children

Literacy Programs

Non-profit After School Programs

Non-profit Day Care Centers

Tribal Programs

 

Programs

Libraries, Ltd. supports many literacy programs across the State of Arizona through financial support, book distributions and magazine subscriptions.

Southern Arizona Report

The Southern Arizona branch of Libraries, Ltd. continues to serve 33 organizations involved with children, teens, literacy and parenting in Tucson, Nogales, Santa Cruz and Green Valley, Arizona. We have supported some of these organizations for as long as 16 years. Examples of programs assisted in the past year with books and magazines include the following:

• RIF program co-supported by the Pascua Yaqui Tribe, now in its 14th year, serving the Richey, Johnson and Lawrence schools. A new site has been added to this program at Hohokam Middle School, serving 660 students.
• Manzo Elementary P.A.C.E. Home Reading Program
• Las Familias counseling clinic for abused and molested children
• RIF program initiated at Menlo Park Elementary, now continued through Tucson Unified School District

Maricopa County Branch Report

New to Libraries, Ltd., through the efforts of Libraries, Ltd., Monica Goddard, is the Motheread program at Encanto School in the Osborn Elementary School District.

The RIF Club at Red Mountain High School in Mesa, Arizona, continues to serve as a model for RIF clubs across the United States. Faculty sponsor for the club, Pat Heck, reports that it is the largest club on campus with 1800 members and 75 officers. Their highly successful buddy system pairs high school and elementary students to share the joy of reading.