United Through Reading is a program founded by Betty Mohlenbrock about 20 years ago to bring families together and encourage children to read. She was inspired by her memories as a child of a deployed parent.
In 2006 the USO began a partnership with United Through Reading to support the families with deployed services members. This amazing program encourages a deploying service member to read a story to their child. The reading is recorded to a DVD. The child receives both the DVD and book.
With United Through Reading programs set up at USO’s worldwide. The deploying parent can read, record and send additional stories to their child.
United Through Reading will be implemented at Fort McCoy in 2010.