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Supporting incarcerated parents to share books and the gift of reading with their children. 
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The Benefits<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

The program offers a tangible way for children affected by incarceration to feel connected and loved by their missed parent, while building literacy skills and family connections.

Sometimes grandparents, or aunts and uncles participate in the program too.
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My partner has had to move to Western Australia to be with his family but he says our two year old listens to me reading the dinosaur book every night in bed – it\u2019s how he goes to sleep.  My little boy keeps the book with him <\/em>
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Read Along Mums participant, quoted with permission.
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Read AlongMums & Dads Supporting incarcerated parents to share books and the gift of reading with their children.  The Benefits The program offers a tangible way for children affected by incarceration to feel connected and loved by their missed parent, while building literacy skills and family connections. Sometimes grandparents, or aunts and uncles participate in … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-345","page","type-page","status-publish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/readalong.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/readalong.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/readalong.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readalong.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readalong.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"https:\/\/readalong.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":697,"href":"https:\/\/readalong.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/345\/revisions\/697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/readalong.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}