Op-Ed: The Leadership That Oregon Children Need Now
In The Oregonian, FBO's Whitney Grubbs and Children's Institute's Kalie Thorne Ladd urge Oregon’s next governor to build a bold and shared vision for children.
09/18/22 ∞ MIN READ
Whitney Grubbs is Executive Director of Foundations for a Better Oregon.
Kali Thorne Ladd is Chief Executive Officer of Children's Institute.
Whitney Grubbs is Executive Director of Foundations for a Better Oregon.
Kali Thorne Ladd is Chief Executive Officer of Children's Institute.
With child care, school buildings and college campuses all open, the back-to-school season might look a lot like it did before COVID-19. Even so, most young Oregonians are still struggling with the aftermath of an extraordinarily difficult few years. Helping them move forward is an urgent challenge and critical to the future of our state, argue Foundations for Better Oregon Executive Director Whitney Grubbs and Children's Institute CEO Kali Thorne Ladd—and yet, we’ve heard astonishingly little about children throughout this year’s historic governor’s race.
"We will either accept unfinished learning, tragic mental illness, and generational trauma as a foregone conclusion, or we will shift course now to help every child heal and grow into resilient and thriving community members," write Grubbs and Thorne Ladd in today's Sunday edition of The Oregonian. "What we do to take care of our children today will determine the kind of Oregon we have for decades to come."
Read the full op-ed in The Oregonian.
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