RECOMMENDATION(S):
APPROVE and AUTHORIZE the Employment & Human Services Director, or designee, to enter into a licensing agreement with "Raising A Reader © National", a California non-profit corporation, including a mutual indemnification clause to provide a literacy program to County childcare sites during the term May 1, 2012 through April 30, 2017.
FISCAL IMPACT:
None
BACKGROUND:
The Community Services Bureau of the Employment & Human Services Department has adopted a program "Raising A Reader" to promote early literacy among the Department's childcare centers. The program provides training materials, books and book bags to be distributed to children and families enrolled in the county childcare centers. The Raising A Reader program materials include a curriculum that teachers and parents may use to further promote literacy.
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