The slow, steady success of the SnuggL'Up program has brought us in contact with a wider variety of people with needs and made us aware of additional ways we could help them.

SnuggL'Up With a Good Book Literacy Program:

This program is designed to help children and youth create a positive and nurturing reading environment with the end result of becoming strong, independent readers and acquiring the desire to become productive, self sufficient and successful members of society.

The Good Book goals will be accomplished by combining the positive and nurturing effects derived from cuddling a SnuggL'Up pillow while being held and/or read to by another person.

The synergy of receiving the pillow's sensation of comfort and security while being read to, combined with the positive attention received during reading, will serve to enhance the overall reading experience and create a desire to repeat the process.

These optimistic and encouraging feelings will then transfer when the child reads independently while holding the SnuggL'Up pillow. The final outcome will be an ongoing and progressive desire to read.

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SnuggL'Up America Service Learning Program:

This program is designed to teach young people, grades 1 thru 12, the joy of helping others while building a commitment to civic engagement, community service and volunteerism within their own communities that will continue throughout their adult lives.

Educational and support materials are written in accordance with individual grade level, Social Studies and Language Arts standards as designated by the Board of Education. Reading, reports, journaling, hands-on service opportunities, student insights and future goals as they relate to the program experience are all components of the Service Learning Program.

Students will interact with less fortunate children in a variety of settings, including hospitals, day care facilities, after school programs, special needs environments and at risk school children. Students may also choose to visit senior citizens in a variety of settings.

Participants will distribute SnuggL'Up Comfort Pillows, books, inspirational and/or educational gifts to create a sense of hope, pride and self-esteem.

Youth who participate in the SnuggL'Up America Service Learning Program will have the opportunity to directly impact those less fortunate.

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The SnuggL'Up Gift of Love Hospice and Grief Support Program:

This program was created to enhance the level of palliative care by helping the hospice patient's transition be an experience of comfort, security and love, thus helping to lower the level of stress experienced by both the hospice patient and those assisting with the palliative care.

The program is also designed to assist the family members during the dying stages and continue to help them through the ensuing grief process.

The Hospice and Grief Program consists of combining the appropriate size SnuggL'Up comfort pillow with books and other support materials written by leading authorities in the hospice and grief fields. Featured authors include Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, Mother Theresa and David Kessler.

Anecdotal information about this program states patients and mourners experience increased physical comfort, improved sleeping and an overall improvement in their sense of well-being.

SnuggL'Up Healing Hearts Program:

This program is designed to address the emotional needs of abuse and neglect victims, help them break the cycle of abuse, and move forward in the healing process by experiencing a sense comfort, security, and love.

SnuggL'Up comfort pillows will be combined with age appropriate and inspirational books to help foster a sense of pride and hope for the future. Programs will be distributed through social services agencies, with the assistance of domestic violence and abuse rescue volunteers, first response police officers, foster care personnel and other local government and volunteer agency staff.

The Healing Hearts Program philosophy includes the belief that a child who feels a sense of love and nurturing can use this empowerment to break their negative cycle of abuse.

Each child given this opportunity can take the positive reinforcement and use it to improve his or her future socio-economic status while stopping the perpetuation of abuse and neglect.

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SnuggL'Up for Our Future Community Service and Leadership Development Program:

This Program is designed to teach individual young people, youth service groups, and individual classes grades 1 thru 12, the joy of helping others while instilling the desire to continue some type of service work throughout their adult lives.

The Program participants organize fundraising activities to help cover the cost of manufacturing SnuggL'Up pillows and they purchase age appropriate reading and/or activity books.

Participants will then interact with their chosen recipient by personally distributing SnuggL'Up Comfort Pillows and Smiles for Kids books and working with the children to create a sense of hope, pride and self-esteem of those less fortunate than themselves.

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