Building At-Home Libraries
The Snack Sack wraparound support is based upon four pillars: Foundational Needs, Positive Identity, Crisis Prevention, and Spreading Joy. Our Building At-Home Libraries initiative builds positive identity by providing books to Black and Brown children with characters that look like them and move through the world as they do.
With your help, The Snack Sack will cover the cost of the book and shipping & handling, creating collections that will be a source of joy and inspiration for years to come.
The Snack Sack carefully selects age-appropriate and culturally relevant books for our families. We then work with authors and vendors to ship books. Snack Sack children can experience receiving a package on their doorstep--addressed in their name--that they can read again and again. Every child deserves an at-home library that speaks to their experience.
Learn more! Read: "Why Representation Matters and Why It’s Still Not Enough," by Kevin Leo Yabut Nadal, Ph.D. Positive media representation can be helpful in increasing self-esteem for people of marginalized groups (especially youth). Representation in educational curricula and social media can provide validation and support, especially for youth of marginalized groups.