World Book Day Celebration

1565 Dorchester Avenue,Boston MA 02122

23 April, 2022

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This event hosted by FCCC will include a book giveaway for children, read alouds by local authors, and information about community services. PRESS RELEASE Fields Corner Crossroads Collaborative to host Youth Readathon on April 23 Dorchester, MA - March 17th, 2022 - DotHouse Health, a Federally Qualified Health Center, announced today that, Fields Corner Crossroads Collaborative (Crossroads) will be hosting a Youth Readathon in partnership with Frugal Bookstore, the Fields Corner Branch of the Boston Public Library, Little Book Library, Boys and Girls Club of Dorchester, Story Starters, and First Teacher. Crossroads looks forward to meeting residents and community advocates at Crossroads third event of the year, the Youth Readathon at Town Field Park in Dorchester on Saturday April 23, 2022 from 11AM-2PM. The Youth Readathon will include a book giveaway for children, read alouds by local authors, information about community services (such as SNAP, RAFT, WIC), and music. For 30 days leading up to the event, Crossroads and BPL will be sharing a Youth Story Read Aloud on Youtube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNhi8oKv31pRWu0dVEsA37w/). The purpose of the Youth Readathon is to increase early literacy and love of reading, promote diversity and inclusion in media, increase conversations about race, and inspire civic engagement and justice. In order to reduce racial biases and prejudices, it is important to have conversations about and exposure to race. Through books, we are able to increase empathy, self reflection, respect for cultural groups, share common aspirations, and create a wider cursitorsity for the world (We Need Diverse Books, 2017). Follow along with Crossroads journey on Instagram @FieldsCornerCrossroadsCollab. Crossroads, formed in 2018, received a 3 year funding incubation grant in 2020 by Boston Children’s Hospital’s Children’s Health Equity Initiative (CHEq). The eight organizations: All Dorchester Sports and Leadership, Asian American Resource Workshop, Boys & Girls Clubs of Dorchester, DotHouse Health, Louis D Brown Peace Institute, MassCOSH, New England United for Justice, and VietAid represent the fields of healthcare, affordable housing development, advocacy and organizing, economic and youth development, occupational health, and civic participation. Key goals of Crossroads include: improving child health, building pipelines of support between families and resources, establishing a youth council to drive neighborhood-wide advocacy efforts, reducing the socioeconomic disparities around health, and many others. To donate books to the Youth Readathon visit https://frugalbookstore.net/apps/giftregistry/registry/200436. CONTACT INFORMATION: Keyla Kelley Crossroads Director, DotHouse Health [email protected] ### DotHouse Health 1353 Dorchester Avenue, Dorchester, MA 02122