| ZZ-258542-18 | Challenge Programs: Cooperative Agreements and Special Projects (Challenge Grants) | Blue Star Families | START (Serving, Thriving, And Reading Together) | 9/1/2017 - 11/30/2020 | $448,100.00 | Suzi | | Guardia | | | | Blue Star Families | Encinitas | CA | 92023-0637 | USA | 2017 | | Cooperative Agreements and Special Projects (Challenge Grants) | Challenge Programs | 0 | 448100 | 0 | 448100 | The expansion of Blue Star Families' Books on
Bases literacy program into the humanities-based Serving, Thriving, and Reading Together (START) program.
With the support and collaboration of the
National Endowment for the Humanities, Blue Star Families will create an
expanded version of Books on Bases. START (Serving, Thriving, and Reading
Together) will research and tailor models of “wraparound” family reading
programs that NEH has previously funded through state humanities councils - including
Primetime Family Reading, Family Adventures in Reading, Motheread/Fatheread,
Talking Service, and Great Books - to the needs of Blue Star Families. Under the
guidance and assistance of trained scholars and educators, Blue Star Families
will create two programs: Family START for children and parents, and Neighbor START
for adults. Both programs will foster meaningful discussion and dialogue using literature
that explores four main themes: community, service, diversity, and resiliency. START
will extend the profound and transformative impact that reading together can
have across the military and civilian worlds. |