PRIME TIME mails Spark Boxes to 29 agencies across Louisiana

PRIME TIME Spark Boxes are on their way to 29 agencies chosen to deliver the boxes to families in their communities. PRIME TIME Inc. received requests for more than 1,800 boxes from 49 organizations throughout the state during the two-week application period, the highest number of applications ever received. When combined with PRIME TIME Family Reading and Preschool programs, PRIME TIME will serve 35 parishes in Fall 2021.

Families wishing to receive a Spark Box should contact the PRIME TIME partner organization in their community (see the full list below). A Spark Box is filled with books to build families’ home libraries, additional learning supplies, and a Grown-Up Guide for caregivers that provides support for discussion and activities for at-home implementation of PRIME TIME’s humanities-centered methodology.

Spark Boxes were made possible by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Entergy Charitable Foundation, the Beaird Family Foundation, and the Boh Bros Centennial Fund and are based on LEH’s 30-year intergenerational reading and discussion program, PRIME TIME Family Reading.

The Acadia Parish Library

Acadia Parish

337-788-1880

Louisiana State University at Eunice – LeDoux Library

Acadia Parish

337-550-1381

City of DeRidder Community Services Department

Beauregard Parish

337-462-8900

Sunset Acres Elementary

Caddo Parish

318-631-7121