Early Education
Kinder Ready Clinics
The Office of Child Health Equity partners with Mid-Peninsula pediatric clinics to address issues within early education. We strive to increase low-income children's access to books, enrich clinical environments with educational support tools, and supplement school readiness interventions.
Learn more about the Kinder Ready Clinics here or see a brief description of the programs and services below.
Early Literacy Programs and Services
Little Libraries
Little Libraries was founded with the goal of promoting reading to all patients who visited our clinics. Children and families can read a book while they wait and take a book home for free.
Since 2018, we distributed over 19,000 books to 11 participating pediatric clinics in San Mateo County and Santa Clara.
Talk, Read, Sing
Talk, Read, Sing aims to promote early brain and language development, empowering parents with the tools to confidently talk, read, and sing with their young children. By empowering parents to be their child’s first teacher, the program promotes knowledge about the importance of brain development in the critical 0-3 year period.
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Waiting Room Murals
We aim to transform pediatric clinic waiting rooms into early learning environments.
In addition to the Little Libraries, we have implemented vibrant and bright early education murals - artistic scenes that promote learning for children - at the Fair Oaks Clinic and the Mayview Community Health Center.
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Tips by Text
Tips by Text is a set of evidence-based text-messaging programs designed to help parents, caregivers, and educators support their children’s early development.
The texting program breaks down the complexity of parenting and caregiving into small, achievable steps, and provides continuous support and reinforcement.
Coalitions and Clubs
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Undergraduate Story Times Club
The Story Times program recruits volunteers from the undergraduate community at Stanford.
Using the Little Libraries at pediatric clinics, volunteers host Story Time readings to patients while they wait for their visit, demonstrate early reading strategies, and promote the importance of early literacy.
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Pediatric Literacy Launchers
Pediatric Literacy Launchers implements a system-wide early literacy intervention across diverse pediatric medical settings. Comprised of Stanford faculty and staffs, the coalition aims to create literary-rich environments for patients and ensure access to resources and messaging to promote early literacy.
To learn more, click here.