FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. (CLARKSVILLENOW) – Children born at Blanchfield Army Community Hospital on Fort Campbell have the opportunity to be a part of a new Imagination Library partnership.
Governor’s Books from Birth Foundation (GBBF) and Cracker Barrel Old Country Store Foundation will celebrate the launch of an Imagination Library enrollment partnership with the American Red Cross on Friday, May 24. This Imagination Library will support babies born at Blanchfield Army Community Hospital (BACH).
In celebration of this partnership, GBBF Vice President Dean Hoskins, Cracker Barrel Old Store Foundation President Terry Deas and retired Brig. Gen. Scott Brower will give remarks and honor families at the hospital who have enrolled their newborn in the program.
Emphasizing the benefits of reading with children from birth, this partnership gives every family with a newborn delivering at BACH the opportunity to enroll their child in the Imagination Library program. Enrolled children, from birth to age five, will receive one book per month mailed to their home, at no cost to the family.
The launch will happen before the hospital’s Baby Expo event at the Family Resource Center.
GBBF promotes early childhood literacy in Tennessee by sustaining the statewide Imagination Library program and initiatives such as Tennessee State Park Storybook Trails and Summer Mobile Literacy Units. In 2014, GBBF began to partner with birthing hospitals to enroll newborns into the Imagination Library.
While Cracker Barrel has long focused its philanthropic giving and support on military families, this is the first military children-focused Imagination Library enrollment partnership for GBBF and Cracker Barrel.