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DocuSign Envelope ID: AEC39738-8AEC-43FD-8602-OOAC3DF5BA7B <br />ACCORDINGLY, for good and valuable consideration, the receipt and adequacy of which are hereby <br />acknowledged, First 5 and SLPL agree as follows: <br />I. PROGRAM DESCRIPTION <br />First 5 desires to leverage Library institutions who have previously participated in promising practices <br />quality improvement activities through the Neighborhood Partnership Project to serve as library <br />branches in Quality Counts. Library branches provide opportunities to reach family, friend and neighbor <br />caregivers with quality improvement activities through enhanced Storytimes/playtimes. The goals of the <br />Quality Counts library branches are to: <br />A. Increase Kindergarten Readiness opportunities for children not in licensed child care through <br />expanded engagement of parents/caregivers in home activities; <br />B. Increase children's access to developmental services; <br />C. Increase the use of best practices for early care and education at library institutions; <br />D. Promote early literacy and resources for dual -language learners; and <br />E. Continue support of libraries to provide programming aimed at youngest patrons, birth to 5 <br />years old. <br />II. ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES <br />To achieve these goals, SLPL is committed to doing the following: <br />A. Hold two (2) Storytime/FFN Early Learning community events that support early literacy. <br />Distribute Storytime materials or books in patron's home language, English, Spanish, or <br />Chinese, at the Main Branch, the Manor Branch, or FFN Early Learning community <br />events before May 30, 2023. Document each distribution. <br />Provide a link online to Home Activity Survey for two (2) Storytimes/FFN Early Learning <br />community event attendees (one link each for English, Spanish and Chinese Storytimes) <br />by May 30, 2023. <br />B. Organize in -person Dia activity programming for FFN providers and families. <br />Designate an SLPL staff person to organize Dia programming (events, book distributions, <br />etc) that support early literacy and resources in ways that honor and embrace a young <br />child's home language and culture; <br />Purchase and distribute multilingual and/or non-English monolingual children's books <br />and/or programming activity materials. Document the distribution. <br />2022-2023 First 5 Alameda County MOU <br />San Leandro Public Library <br />MOU #: PS-ECE-2223-160 <br />