The Program

The Veterans Reading Brigade is part of LVMAC’s community educational outreach efforts. The Reading Brigade brings our community’s veterans into its elementary schools to read short stories to children. Veterans read a pre-approved book of a historical or military nature which is then donated to the classroom along with an educator’s guide.

For more information about the program, to volunteer as a reader or as an organization with veterans, or to request a reader at an elementary school, please email VetReadingBde@lvmac.org, Subject: ATTN: Veterans Reading Brigade.  A Veterans Reading Brigade Committee Coordinator will contact you.

For the Veterans Reading Brigade Rack Card: click here.

Additional Program Resources

We provide the following, carefully selected links to teachers, counselors, and students in the Lehigh Valley to help them understand the value and importance of our military, veterans and their families in our communities. These sites will also help in understanding the challenges that these families may face as members of our school communities.

We intend to sensitize counselors, teachers, and the students they serve to the value and importance of our military, veterans and their families to our communities and our nation throughout our history. We hope to foster the desire for a greater understanding of the challenges they may face as members of our school communities while contributing to a strengthening of democratic society that requires no military service obligation from its citizens – thus, having less direct knowledge and understanding of their needs.

The program also desires to stimulate more efforts from our veterans and others to the benefit of our school districts and the children of military and veterans within them. Education is key to the survival of our nation as a democracy.

For Educators and Counselors:

• Taking Care of Our Military Children discusses how the Department of Defense is addressing military children’s issues as of 2023.

• Educators Guide to The Military Child During Deployment informs educators about the impact of deployment on military families and provides them with strategies for overcoming the challenges their students face.

• Military Child Education Coalition includes information on resiliency, scholarship opportunities, and training for teachers working with military families.

For Families and Children:

• Taking Care of Our Military Children discusses how the Department of Defense is addressing military children’s issues as of 2023.

• Military Families Near and Far is a site that allows the user to create works of art and music to send to deployed loved ones. It also has valuable resources for family members and networking capabilities for older children.

• Military Child Education Coalition provides information on resiliency, scholarship opportunities, and training for military families.

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Last Updated: 11 March 2024