About Isabelle
Named after Isabelle Cummins, the daughter of Irish immigrants, Isabelle's Book Club is designed to strengthen communities by increasing graduation rates, lower crime rates, and increasing the potential of employment simply through the enjoyment of reading. Isabelle Cummins shared her love of reading with family members by giving books as a Christmas tradition and encouraging family members to read them. Generations have continued the book-giving tradition and share her love of reading. She has earned two college degrees and continues her love of learning in her mid-eighties. The organization was given her name as a tribute to the much loved aunt and to further her legacy of readers.
"School is the one thing I've never outgrown. Ever."
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Isabelle’s Book Club is a way to help children who are dealing with issues of parental incarceration. Families that are disenfranchised by imprisonment resort to survival mode with homework and academics ending up at the bottom of the priority list.
Children with incarcerated parents are at risk of dropping out of school, engaging in anti-social behavior, and experiencing a decline in school work. They also exhibit high levels of truancy, aggression, and disruptive behaviors.
Roughly 10 million children in the US are affected by current or past parental involvement with the criminal justice system. Research shows a variety of educational problems occur in children who have been traumatized by the arrest, separation, incarceration and absence of a parent.
It is estimated that 50 percent of incarcerated
juveniles have a parent who has been
incarcerated.
Alarmingly, 16 percent of children who are
not reading proficiently by the end of
third grade (7 years old) do not graduate from high school.
Under-educated individuals are at a severe disadvantage for gainful employment. These individuals also have greater propensity for a life of crime.
Books change lives. One of the biggest obstacles to literacy is the scarcity of books in the home; two-thirds of low-income families do not own books.
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