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We are excited to welcome six new Turn a Page. Touch a Mind.® sites this summer!
- GraceMed – Good Samaritan Clinic in Wichita with Physician Champion Dee Ann Bragg, MD will be giving out 700 books per year.
- Lawrence Pediatrics, PA with Physician Champion Kirsten Evans, MD will be giving out 200 books per year.
- Dr. Gurpreet Randhawa in Liberal will be giving out 3,000 books per year.
- Redbud Pediatrics LLC in Wichita with Physician Champion Rebecca Reddy, MD will give out 300 books per year.
- Southwest Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, PA in Liberal with Physician Champion Nargis Husainy, MD will give out 950 books per year.
- Southwest Professional Physicians in Liberal with Physician Champion Fancisco Chacon, MD will give out 20 books per year.
In 2004, the Kansas Chapter, American Academy of Pediatrics (KAAP) developed Turn a Page. Touch a Mind.® (TAP-TAM) and the Kansas Pediatric  Foundation (KPF) with the hopes of making literacy promotion a standard part of pediatric primary care so that children grow up with books and a love for reading. Children who live in a print-rich environment and are read to regularly during the early years are much more likely to learn to read on schedule.
After 8 years, literacy promotion is indeed becoming a standard part of pediatric primary care in Kansas with over 275 physicians and medical providers giving out books every day at well-child exams from 6 months to 5 years at 52 sites in 26 counties! TAP-TAM providers have distributed over 240,000 books to Kansas kids since 2004.
Thanks to the generous contributions from supporters across the state, we have been able to continue to grow and bring on new sites each year so that even more Kansas kids can have new, developmentally appropriate books in their homes.
| Year |
2004 |
2005 |
2006 |
2007 |
2008 |
2009 |
2010 |
2011 |
| Books |
4,153 |
13,916 |
18,131 |
22,072 |
28,137 |
36,249 |
54,278 |
66,456 |
Turn a Page. Touch a Mind.® was created by the Kansas Pediatric Foundation so Kansas kids will grow up with a love for reading and strong early literacy skills for generations to come.
Our vision is to create designated endowment funds for communities in Kansas, so that local contributors can come together and watch their endowment grow, knowing that the children in their community will always have new, developmentally appropriate books and the tools to start school ready to learn to read.
The gift of an endowment is powerful and everlasting for a community. The illustration below shows what a $10,000 endowment will do over 50 years. Using an average return on investment of 8.5%, considering a 1% administrative fee, and annual payout of 5%, after 15 years that fund will have purchased over 3,000 books with the $10,000 payout, and the balance would be $15,500 without any additional gifts to the fund. After 50 years, the Kansas Pediatric Foundation would have been able to buy over 17,000 books with the $51,000 payout, and the balance would be $35,000.
Contact Mel Hudelson at the Kansas Pediatric Foundation to find out how to set up an endowment for your community, Mel.hudelson@kansasaap.org or (913)940-8965.
When a child’s physician gives a brand new, developmentally appropriate book to a child and encourages their parents to read to them daily, those children start school with the tools that they need to learn to read. Your gift will help more Kansas kids have this opportunity.
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