Reading 2Gether was launched last month and aims to encourage bonding and early reading interactions between parents and their children in state care.
Caitlin Schmidt A new program offered in Pima County Juvenile Court hopes to promote bonding between parents and their children who are in state care, while also supporting child literacy efforts.
The bag that goes home with the child has information about how to set up a Google phone number in case the temporary family would like to keep their personal phone number private. "Their auditory system, their olfactory system and their visual system is all playing at the same time," Wagener said."It's a really inventive way of pulling all those things together so you increase the chances that bonding and attachment happens."
Most dependency cases in juvenile court are eligible for Reading 2Gether. The exception is if there's criminal conduct involved in the case or a no-contact order between the parent and child. The program was inspired by Iowa Court's Safe Babies Court Team's 2-4-2 Program, which Wagener learned about in 2018 during an annual courts meeting.
For the books to use in Reading 2Gether, Aja collected suggestions from coworkers and others, then went through the Scholastic catalog, checking off titles. "If the court or whoever decides they want to expand it to something else, we'll have lessons learned," Wagener said. DCS case managers and attorneys with the Office of Children's Counsel refer families for participation in Reading 2Gether, with community coordinator Tasha Gamez taking all referrals and distributing bags to the families.
"Ultimately, that's what we want. We want to get you home and that's it," she said."And this is a strategy that will help if those relationships are built." "That role model doesn't have to be biological," Wagener said."That's what's so beautiful about this process. If you get the right people together, you end up with this beautiful outcome."
"If you have a newborn taken away and two years later you get a toddler back, you don't know anything about them," Boccardo said."You haven't been going to doctor's appointments or anything outside of your visits. You don't know who you're getting back." The language a family speaks is also not a barrier, with a cache of books available in Spanish and other languages. The workgroup also has a partner who has committed to providing books in any languages that aren't already on hand.
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