Grant funding from the Dean and Margaret Lesher Foundation will allow Juvenile Hall and Orin Allen Youth Rehabilitation Facility Libraries to purchase new, current titles to augment the collection as well as materials to replace worn items. These items will be ordered on a monthly basis over the course of the project's two-year time span to ensure a continuous increase of new materials. All books and materials for both libraries' collections are purchased from revenue generated entirely through grants and individual donations. Because both libraries have been so successful in developing a love of reading for education and pleasure, many of the books in the collection need to be replaced annually due to wear and tear.

Additionally, the newest titles by admired and popular authors are in constant demand by patrons of these libraries. In order to continue encouraging this special and unique population to develop habits of reading for pleasure and self-directed learning, it is important that the libraries are able to provide new titles that refresh the collection and to which teens can relate.  

As well as supplying Contra Costa County's population of incarcerated teens with books and encouraging a love of reading and a lifelong habit of self-directed learning, the materials will allow the youth to engage in creative, educational activities that many of the youth have never experienced before, exposing them to new ideas and allowing them to discover previously unknown interests and hidden talents. This meets the Children's Report Card outcome of Children Ready for and Succeeding in School.