Institute for Child & Family Health (ICFH) Literacy Educator Receives Toyota Teacher...

Institute for Child & Family Health (ICFH) Literacy Educator Receives Toyota
Teacher of the Year Award

ICFH All-Aboard Family Literacy Program's Maria Pinon Receives Prestigious
Award

MIAMI, April 20 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Family Literacy program supervisor
Maria Pinon received the national 2009 Toyota Family Literacy Teacher of the
Year award at the National Conference on Family Literacy in Orlando.

As part of the award given by Toyota and the National Center for Family
Literacy, Pinon's All-Aboard Family Literacy Program will receive $7,500.
Pinon was also featured on an electronic billboard in Times Square earlier
this month. (http://www.icfhinc.org/news_details.asp?id_noticia=29)

"We are thrilled to have one of our employees receive this prestigious award,"
said Robert D. Nolan Ph.D., Executive Director of ICFH.

The purpose of the All-Aboard Family Literacy program is to help break the
cycle of poverty and illiteracy by improving the educational opportunities of
low-income families through the integration of childhood education, adult
literacy, parenting education, and interactive literacy activities between
parents and their children.

Last year the ICFH All Aboard Family Literacy Program was honored with the
Excellence Award for Early Childhood Programming by The Children's Trust. The
program works with parents in the area of Riverside Elementary in Little
Havana to increase the parents involvement in their child's education, many of
whom don't speak English as their first language.

The Toyota Family Literacy Teacher of the Year Award recognizes individual
contributions to improving literacy for children and adults. The winner and
several finalists are selected annually by the National Center for Family
Literacy to honor educators who demonstrate and impact on families through
early childhood education, school-based programs, adult literacy and ESL
programs, parenting education, library literacy programs and community
literacy programs.

The Institute for Child and Family Health (ICFH) is a private, not-for-profit
organization that has been providing health, behavioral health, educational,
and prevention services to the children, adolescents, and families of
Miami-Dade County for over 60 years. It is one of the oldest and largest
community health centers exclusively dedicated to the well being of children
and families in the state of Florida. ICFH serves over 25,000 children,
adolescents, and families per year. For more information about ICFH, please
visit the organizational Web site at www.icfhinc.org.

SOURCE Institute for Child & Family Health

Alina Plasencia, Director of Marketing of Institute for Child & Family Health,
+1-305-722-5322, Fax: +1-305-688-3889, aplasencia@icfhinc.org