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Prime Time Palm Beach County, Inc. receives significant funding from the Children's Services Council of Palm Beach County.
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• Established in 1989 to promote and achieve literacy in Palm Beach County
• Annually serves more than 25,000 adults, children, youth and families
• Distributes 70,000 new books to children
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After School Programs2002-03• Children’s Services Council asked the
Literacy Coalition to create a reading program for afterschool settings
• After School Reads was selected as the program name
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• KidzLit was chosen as the curriculum as it was research based and correlated to the Florida Sunshine State Standards for Reading
• Initially the program served 7 sites
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• In 2004, After School Reads became an enhancement under Prime Time Palm Beach County
• Since then more than 60 afterschool programs have participated in After School Reads
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The core model includes:• training afterschool practitioners in
reading strategies• modeling effective techniques• conducting observations• retraining as needed• creating classroom libraries
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• Evenings are based on the Florida Partnership for Family Involvement in Education model around a common theme and book
• Snacks, materials, books, art activities and prizes are given to families attending
• Now annually, 15 Family Reading Nights
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• Since 2010, KidzMath and KidzScience have been added to KidzLit in the After School Reads Program
• All 3 programs follow the Common Core Standards
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• In 2011-12 After School Reads served 2,500 children through Family Reading Nights and the training, observations and modeling given to 300 practitioners at 25 sites
• More than 17,000 books were distributed to local afterschool programs
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• In 2011, Prime Time asked the Literacy Coalition to train staff on how to teach anti-bullying strategies to children using children’s literature
• Turning Bullies into Buddies was developed and now serves 16 sites with a dynamic literature based curriculum
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• In 2012, After School Reads and Turning Bullies into Buddies transitioned from being enhancements to being Expanded Learning Opportunities
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