Registration is closed. Please contact Laurie Walker at lwalker@iocp.org to add or change your registration.

This year’s Caring for Kids (CfK) Breakfast, Beyond the Poverty Line: Investing in our Youngest Minds, will be a captivating conversation with two local experts:

• Andrea Singh, MD, the Chair of the department of Pediatrics at Park Nicollet, Co-chair of the HealthPartners Children’s Health Council, and Chair of the Governor’s Children’s Cabinet Advisory Council for the state of Minnesota; and
• Jamesetta Ross Diggs, an Early Childhood Educator and Advocate who serves as a Social Justice Program Manager for African Career Education and Resources (ACER) and operates Social Learning for Littles, a parenting support establishment that equips parents and caregivers with tools to foster young children’s personal and social development.

The CfK Breakfast is also an opportunity to:

• Celebrate our communities’ collective efforts through CfK’s critically important work.
• Learn about our state’s continuing early childhood challenge and the unique/new responses underway.
• Sustain CfK in ways that matter to you, local kids, and the community.

Caring for Kids (CfK) partners with families to ensure kindergarten success through access to quality early learning, mental health support, parent education, case management and basic needs and stability services.

The CfK program is a collaboration that includes Interfaith Outreach & Community Partners (IOCP), the Wayzata and Orono school districts, Bloom Early Learning & Child Care, and a network of quality area childcare providers.