City of Santa Barbara

To encourage early learning, the Santa Barbara Public Library and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art will plan, pilot, and evaluate the potential for full implementation of a new program called the "Siblings Project.” This initiative will promote grade-level reading skills in children age eight and younger by recruiting, training, and encouraging older siblings to read with younger members of families. The project will intentionally leverage a segment of families that to date has not been broadly targeted as an ally in encouraging early literacy.