Reading promotes healthy childhood development, supports parent-child bonding; Reach Out and Read NICU provides books, benefits of reading to premature, ill infants.
Projects include efforts to increase cervical cancer screening rates, foster a support group for parents of pediatric cancer patients, improve colorectal cancer screening, and more.
The Novel Interventions in Children’s Healthcare, or NICH, program was one of three winners nationwide in the American Diabetes Association’s first-ever Innovation Challenge.