Parents: Help your Child
Find opportunities for your child to spell and write:
Encourage your child to write often –for example, letters and thank-you notes to relatives and friends, simple stories, e-mails, and items for the grocery list.
Help your child learn the correct spellings of words:
Find opportunities to help your child develop vocabulary, knowledge of the [...]

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Change 1 Child has partnered with Theatre Development Fund to sent 25 students to the Big Apple Circus.
Theatre Development Fund (TDF) is a not-for-profit organization which was created with the conviction that the live theatrical arts afford a unique expression of the human condition that must be sustained and nurtured. TDF’s twofold mission is to [...]

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A child’s brain develops at an incredible rate during the first three years of life. A child’s early experiences with language contribute to healthy brain development and lay the foundation for learning to read when a child enters school. Parents are indeed a child’s first and most important teachers.
Early literacy is what children know about [...]

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Over 13 million children in the United States—18% of all children—live in families with incomes below the federal poverty level—$22,050 a year for a family of four. Research shows that, on average, families need an income of about twice that level to cover basic expenses. Using this standard, 39% of children live in low-income families.
Most [...]

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I AM A VOLUNTEER
I am a volunteer for Change 1 Child in New York City. This organizaton is dedicated to facilitating the growth of children in disadvantaged communities through a literacy-based outreach program. We read stories to students (K-3) in outer Brooklyn and conduct discussions, asking the children to relate their own experiences and to [...]

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