The United Way of Door County and the Women’s Fund of Door County are co-sponsoring a Door County Child Care Summit which will be Tuesday, October 29th at the Door County Gala in Sturgeon Bay. This summit will be a new approach to the childcare problem facing Door County, and the rest of the state, as they look at recent efforts to bring in more affordable services and evaluate those efforts. United Way Executive Director Amy Kohnle has more…
Speaking at the event will be Ruth Schmidt from the Wisconsin Early Childhood Association, Door County Childcare Community Coordinator Molly Gary, local pediatrician Dr. Shane Colvin, and retired Sturgeon Bay Principal Dr. Ann Smejkal. Kohnle shares how they will present their perspectives on child brain development…
The summit will include a continental breakfast in the morning and a box lunch at noon. The keynote speaker, author Elliot Haspel, will discuss the broken childcare marketplace and how to fix it before the conversation moves on to various childcare funding models. Then, they hope to gather helpful feedback from local summit attendees….
Again, this Door County Child Care Summit will be Tuesday, October 29th from 8AM to 1PM at the Door County Gala. To register for this free event, you can do so through a link found on the local United Way website at unitedwaydc.com.
