Literacy Coalition of Madison County members recently convened in Morrisville to discuss literacy needs throughout Madison County. The meeting helped identify areas of success and to provide the organization with some key areas of focus for the future, according to an organization press release.

The bulk of the morning was spent reviewing the mission and five-year plan of the coalition. The organization’s mission is “a consensus-building initiative intended to unite the community around the importance of literacy, provide economies of scale to existing organizations to efficiently service those in need and provide hope to residents for sustainable change and an improved future.”

The meeting ended with the celebration of over 20 Madison Central Pre-Kindergarten students. The entire incoming group entered the year having had the advantage of participating in the Dolly Parton Imagination Library. The coalition has made this program available to all Madison County students (aged birth through five years).

The literacy coalition and its partners, the libraries throughout the county, identify children who are between the ages of birth and five years old. Children are enrolled in the Imagination Library, regardless of income status, and receive a high quality, age and developmentally appropriate book each month. The books are mailed directly to the homes of the enrolled children.

For more information, visit literacycoalitionmadisoncountyny.org, or email interim director Mike Drahos at [email protected].