Thriving children and families create a thriving community.
Pine River Library Youth Services is dedicated to supporting lifelong learning for children from birth through young adulthood. We believe in empowering Bayfield’s children, families, and caregivers with the resources, materials, and programs they need to achieve full-spectrum literacy.
Our Staff
Summer Sanford
Children’s Services Manager
ext. 512
summer@prlibrary.org
Becky Van Den Berg
Youth Services Manager
ext. 516
becky@prlibrary.org
Reach out any time to chat with Becky (teens) or Summer (kids) about our programs, services, and materials for parents, caregivers, and kids and teens.
Fast Facts About PRL Youth Services
- In 2019, PRL Youth Services provided 526 programs for children and teens with over 6,000 attendees, ages 0 to 18.
- The Children’s and Teens sections of the library contain almost 9,000 books, audiobooks, CDs and DVDs for children and young adults.
- Early learning activities and resources for children 0 to 8 are designed to foster full-spectrum literacy development in young children, providing them with print literacy skills, along with digital, civic, cultural, health, and social-emotional literacy skills, as well.
- We gear our programming towards inspiring youth to engage in Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math (STEAM) learning in dynamic, hands-on ways, encouraging them to explore career & college readiness skills in an applied manner.
- We are regularly awarded grants to help fund our diverse array of children’s & youth programming. Our evidence-based afterschool programming is learner-driven and includes Crazy 8’s Math, Code Club, and Robotics. Coming fresh at the end of 2021 we will host the national Thinking Money for Kids program, a museum quality, self-directed, totally interactive exhibit designed to foster financial literacy.
- PRL Youth Services cultivates active community partnerships with the Bayfield School District, the Early Childhood Council of La Plata County, the Boys & Girls Club of La Plata County, and many more child/family-focused organizations in our area.