History In response to the leading research on early brain
development, the Governor's Early Childhood Development Council
adopted Raising Readers in Wyoming in 2002. This program encouraged
parents to care for both mental and physical well-being by reading
to their young children and getting them age-appropriate
immunizations. PacifiCorp Foundation for Learning
(the philanthropic arm of Pacific Power) was looking for an early
childhood literacy program to fund in the states served by Pacific
Power.
Raising Readers became an independent non-profit
in 2005
A grant was written by the Department of Family Services to
PacificCorp Foundation for Learning and was awarded to the Raising
Readers in Wyoming program. Child Development Services of Wyoming,
Inc. was chosen as the grant administrator and provided an incubator
for the program during its first three years.
