Libraries: Activating Community Health and Wellbeing

The Opportunity: Expanding Your Impact

Libraries are already crucial pillars of community health and mental wellbeing. By partnering with Reading for Wellbeing, you can extend your reach beyond traditional services and directly support residents facing complex health challenges like cancer.

Our bibliotherapy program is a natural and powerful extension of your mission, transforming your existing book collections into a therapeutic resource for those most in need of comfort and mental escape.

Our Partnership Solution: Leveraging Resources

We enable your library to become a crucial service provider for people with CRCI, chronic illness, and those in palliative care.

• Volunteer Training Specialists: We provide specialist training (including CRCI awareness) to your library staff and volunteers, certifying them as expert Community Reading Workers.
• Collection Curation: Guidance on how to curate a focused, appropriate collection of short, engaging, and comforting reading material suitable for read-aloud sessions.
• Referral Pathways: Establishing simple, secure referral pathways with local health services (GPs, Cancer Centres) to ensure the program reaches the right people.
• Maximise Reach: We help you utilise the library’s established network to run local CRCI awareness workshops for the wider community.

Your Return on Investment

Position your library as a vital partner in the local healthcare landscape, demonstrating innovation in public health and maximising the social return of your collections.

Next Step: Launch a Library Partnership

Contact us to discuss tailored training packages and resource partnerships to launch this essential program in your library network.