“Britany Binkowski, the executive director of the Youth Village initiative New Allies, said libraries are a ‘low stigma, high access point of contact for all communities’ and make sense for grassroots outreach.
‘They pretty consistently exist in most counties where they can be reached by lots of families, especially those in rural areas, and they’re (places) people trust to get information, to get access to resources,’ she said. ‘They don’t carry the stigma, for example, of going to a child welfare department and asking for resources in a way that might feel very vulnerable.