Thank you for your interest in volunteering with Reach Out and Read at CHOP!

Please use this form to express interest in applying to become a Reach Out and Read volunteer, and we will contact you to discuss next steps.

If you are a new user, please make a note of your password. You will use this email address and password to access our volunteer portal. Interview and Orientation sign-ups are completed through the volunteer portal.

 

Reach Out and Read Volunteer Program Information

Some of CHOP's Primary Care Centers have Reach Out and Read®, a national pediatric early literacy primary care medical model. In exam rooms during the newborn through 5-year-old well visits, Reach Out and Read clinicians (primary care physicians and nurse practitioners) incorporate Reach Out and Read's evidence-based model by advising parents about the importance of reading aloud, early relational health and language and child development and giving brand-new, culturally, linguistically, and age-appropriate books to the young patients to keep and take home.

  • In the waiting room at some CHOP Reach Out and Read sites, which are outpatient primary care medical offices, adult volunteers are needed to interact with children of any age and their families with books, reading aloud and or literacy resources. Volunteers offer the parent to read aloud with patients and siblings of any age while families are waiting in the waiting room. The wait times in the waiting room vary and can be short so volunteers need to be very flexible. Volunteers also have an option of setting up, staffing and breaking down a literacy table with donated gently used children's books and literacy resources for families. Families can also choose a used book to take home and keep. 
  • Volunteers are 18 years and older.
  • Volunteers make a commitment of volunteering at least 1 hour on the same day and time every week for 12 months.