Early Education

The Office of Child Health Equity partners with mid-Penninsula 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.

Kinder Ready Clinics

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. Learn more here.

Story Times

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. Learn more here.

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. Learn more here.

Early Literacy

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. Learn more here.

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. Learn more here.