'Bringing the Outdoors Back In'
4C's 22nd Annual Early Childhood Conference

4C hosted the 22nd Annual Early Childhood Conference on May 2, featuring keynote speaker Ken Finch of the Green Hearts Institute. The theme of Bringing the Outdoors Back “In” reached 120 teachers, directors, family child care providers and community members. Sessions were around restoring nature into the lives of children. 4C is introducing a new series of workshops on incorporating nature in curriculum and plans to collaborate with Leave No Child Inside- Greater Cincinnati to bring this topic to the forefront in early childhood education.

Participants in Sylvia Dick’s “Outdoor Art” workshop hanging nature mosaics.

(Front row from left) Victoria Carr, director Arlitt Center at University of Cincinnati, Annelise Neumeyer, Peaslee Neighborhood director, Betsy Townsend LNCI Co-Chair and Julie Witten, 4C for Children. (back row from left) Bill Hopple, Cincinnati Nature Center director and Ken Finch, keynote speaker.

Family child care providers enjoy Gwen Ridley’s session on “Turn It Outside In,” bringing natural experiences to family child care programs.