Campaign Cabinet

 Chuck Goering,
   Honorary Chair
Stephen Brown
Helen Carroll
Susan Cook
Michael Hammons
Charlie Horning, DDS
Debbie Koo
Roger Roeding
Roger Schorr
Mark Silbersack
Kate Smith
Alice Sparks
Linda Tessar
Rachel Votruba
Mike Wilson
Rick Hulefield,  
   Executive Director

Children, Inc. began twenty-seven years ago with the simple dream of making a difference for low-income children and their families.  Beginning with one center serving 70 children in Covington, the goal was to provide the kind of early education and care that would enable low-income families to work and children to be ready for school.  As CI’s reputation for providing high quality care grew, they partnered with companies like the IRS and Toyota to provide high quality education and care on-site for their employees.  CI partnered with schools to provide small-targeted programs on-site for teen moms so that the new moms would both learn how to care for their children and complete their high school education.  They opened Montessori schools and made them affordable for everyone. 

While CI began as an organization that provided early education in child care centers, they realized that working families with young children had other needs. Therefore, they developed a network of over 80 certified family child care homes to give 500 working parents more choices about their child care arrangements.  For families with young school age children, CI developed a model network of after school programs in over 45 elementary schools in Northern Kentucky so that working parents need not worry if their children were safe after school.  CI continued their expansion to include before school services, all day summer camps, and holiday care so that families could work.  Each day CI now enables 1300 families to work worry-free.

Throughout the growth of their services, CI continues to raise the level of quality of those services.  Today Children, Inc. is the largest provider of nationally accredited early childhood services in the Greater Cincinnati region.  Children, Inc. provides more three STAR-rated services, Kentucky’s measure of high quality, than any other organization in the state. CI is a leader in integrating the arts and every aspect of the day-to-day curriculum.  CI uses a research-based, strength-based approach to build the social and emotional skills necessary for school success.  They align their curriculum with Kentucky’s learning standards so that when our children enter school they have mastered the skills necessary to begin school ready to learn. 

Each day Children, Inc. shares resources with over 100 different partners.  Through collaboration they are able to serve more children, more cost effectively.  These partnerships also lead to new initiatives.  Last year, with the help of 35 partners, CI launched service learning, a method of helping children in school learn by doing something to help others. 

In its first year over 5,600 school children helped others as a part of their curriculum.  Children, Inc. along with its partners has successfully begun supporting every family with children under the age of five, providing home visitation and free all day preschool.  This fall, Children, Inc. and its partners will launch a regional Oral Health Initiative that will bring oral health education and dental services to almost 10,000 low-income children. 

Due to the growth in our region, the demand for Children, Inc.’s services continue to increase.  This has created a need for new additional facilities.  Therefore, CI has embarked upon a capital campaign, Imagine Tomorrow, to raise the funds necessary to secure this facility.  We are committed to ensuring the children of our community get the very best start in life and we know you share our commitment!  Will you join us as we dream forward and Imagine Tomorrow for the children of our community? 

Read about the Imagine Tomorrow Capital Campaign in The Post

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