News and Notes From Invest in Children -- September 2023

Alyssa Swiatek Appointed Associate Director of Invest in Children

We are pleased to announce that Alyssa Swiatek, M.Ed., PC, has been appointed Associate Director of Invest in Children.

Alyssa has been serving in this role in an interim capacity while maintaining her prior efforts leading our family engagement work -- including our most recent family-centered initiative, FamilySpace. In her now permanent role as Associate Director, Alyssa will be responsible for overseeing multiple programs, contracting and invoicing processes, and day-to-day operations of our office. The last two years has seen Alyssa invest significant time and energy in working with a group of five partner agencies to develop and launch FamilySpace. She recently appeared in a short segment on WKYC talking about this unique and immediately popular program. Click below to see the story.

Alyssa is passionate about unlocking every young child’s potential, empowering parents, and providing system-level advocacy to meet the needs of all families. Because that's what Invest in Children does, Alyssa is a perfect fit for this vital role.

Groundwork Seeks Input of Community Voices New coalition to focus on the needs of pregnant women and their families

Groundwork Ohio and BCDI-Ohio, in conjunction with the Prenatal-to-Three Steering Committee, is building a coalition focused on the unique needs of pregnant women, infants and toddlers and their families in Ohio. They are seeking input from community voices to ensure that their policy agenda and collective work will advance the needs of Ohio families and those that care for them.   Invest in Children is a member of the PN-3 Steering Committee, and is asking our partners to join in this work to help us elevate the voices of children, families, and caregivers. You can participate in this effort by taking the attached survey between now and October 13th!

Cuyahoga County Office of Early Childhood Invest in Children

‌