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.

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.