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Are you United Through Reading?United Through Reading ®
provides a meaningful
opportunity for emotional
connections that help
relieve the stress of separation
by having separated service
members read aloud to children
via DVD.
Our VisionThat all children will feel the security of caring family relationships and develop a love of reading through the read aloud experience.
Our MissionTo unite military families facing physical separation by facilitating the bonding experience of reading aloud together.
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How It WorksIn nearly 200 recording locations around the world, United Through Reading offers service members who are separated from their children the opportunity to be video-recorded reading storybooks to their children at home.
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Emotions Geography
Deployment
Training
Divorce
Duty
PARTICIPANTS READ TO:
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• Their children
• Nieces, nephews
• Grandchildren
• Children being mentored
• Don’t forget:
o New babies and infants
o Pre-Teens and Teenagers
President’s Volunteer Service Award (PVSA) –earned annually by calendar year using volunteer time solely with United Through Reading or aggregated with volunteer time with other organizations.
Military Outstanding Volunteer Service Medal (MOVSM)May be awarded by the military after consequential, sustained, and direct volunteer service. United Through Reading can provide volunteer information and data to a command when requested on behalf of a volunteer and can write recommendations for nominating a service member for the MOVSM based on sustained volunteer support of the program.
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Robust Volunteer Program
The Book
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Again!
and Again!!
and AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!
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The program allows me to stay in touch and connect with my daughter in ways that the phone or email cannot do. I read and then use a couple minutes to talk to my daughter and act the way I would normally do when I was home. She nags my wife to watch the DVDs over and over and runs to the mailbox everyday hoping to receive another DVD of me reading.”
~ a Marine Corps father
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Why it matters... Children’s anxieties are eased. Spouses at home are supported because parenting is shared. Service members' morale is boosted and they feel like they are a part of daily life at home. Homecomings are easier and more joyful. Children become readers.
Why Not SKYPE?When it’s naptime in Fort Campbell….. …….it’s the middle of the night in Afghanistan.
● Bandwidth? Access? Security?● United Through Reading has:
● Reliability● Repeatability● Availability
“Mommy or Daddy on Demand”
For More Information
Tina WrightNational Program Manager (USCG)
United Through Reading11772 Sorrento Valley Road #125
San Diego, CA 92121
T: 619-519-5507
Combined Federal Campaign #11393
