Among the agencies receiving a funding boost after taxpayers approved a health and human services levy
last month, is Invest in Children.
The agency will get an additional $2.5 million during the next two years. Two million in funding will pay for more children to attend the county’s universal preschools. Another $500,000 will pay for early childhood mental health services, according to the county amendment.
“Brain development during the first five years of life is explosive. And you begin to see the differences emerge of children living in disadvantaged circumstances versus higher income, more supportive families by 18 months. You start to see vocabulary differences that just get wider and wider by three years of age,” says Invest in Children Director Rebekah Dorman.
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