Promoting Childhood Literacy
A shy young boy came in to the Children’s Health Center at San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center for his regular check-up. He knew that, thanks to the Center’s partnership with Reach Out and Read (ROAR), he would get to go home with a brand new book. He leaned over to Dr. Eleanor Chung and whispered, “do you have any books about volcanoes?” He was unlucky that day, but he was back a few weeks later when his older brother was scheduled for his check-up. “We had just received a new shipment of books, and one of them was [...]