RTM10: Instilling a Lifelong Love for Reading, Learning, Reflection and Community

FAIN: ZED-283414-22

Read To Me International Foundation (Honolulu, HI 96813-4415)
Nicki Brown (Project Director: May 2021 to October 2025)

The retention of three positions supporting the offering and expansion of a literature-based program engaging parents in reading and discussing books with their young children.

RTM10 (“read to me 10 minutes a day”) is a 6-week, literature-based comprehensive parent-coaching program and alumni enrichment events offered to families in the under-resourced communities of Kalihi, Wahiawa, and the Leeward Coast in the state of Hawai‘i. The overarching goal of the RTM10 program is synonymous with the organization’s mission: “To share the love and joy of reading aloud.” RTM10 introduces participants to diverse literature and equips them with strategies to engage their children in literature through reading aloud together. Reading aloud, specifically through using age-appropriate literature and picture storybooks, instills children’s lifelong love for learning, reading, reflection, discourse, and community. The goal of this project is to expand its geographic reach in Hawai‘i to serve additional under-resourced communities, specifically immigrant, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander, Filipino, and homeless/houseless communities.