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Better Badger Baby Bus plans five-day tour of Polk, Pierce and St. Croix counties
The Better Badger Baby Bus visits Amery locations on Wednesday, September 27.
 BALDWIN — The Better Badger Baby Bus Tour will bring informative programs about human brain development to communities in Polk, Pierce and St. Croix Counties beginning Tuesday, September 26, 2006. The visit culminates with a stop at the Growing Kids, Growing Minds Event at the Baldwin Public Library and Municipal Building, 400 Cedar Street, on Saturday, September 30. This is the fourth consecutive year that the tour, which features a customized bus loaded with materials about recent findings in brain research and other child-rearing topics, has stopped in the region. To find out locations and the schedule for the Better Badger Baby Bus Tour, please click here.
The bus tour will offer presentations for a variety of local audiences during its five-day visit. Sessions will highlight steps that caregivers can take to ensure that the experiences of very young and preschool-aged children enhance their intellectual and emotional capacities. Other programs will discuss the impacts of trauma, abuse, neglect and/or poverty on human brain function. A schedule for the trip is attached. All programs are free and, where indicated, open to the public.
The Better Badger Baby Bus Tour is part of the Wisconsin Council on Children and Families’ Brain Project, which includes curricula, professional training, and public policy and advocacy around early childhood through adolescent development. The tour’s bus serves as a mobile information center, bringing handouts, materials, videos, presentations and activities about childhood brain development to communities and events.
The Milwaukee-based Northwestern Mutual Foundation and Faye McBeath Foundation help fund the Better Badger Baby Bus Tour. To learn more about the stops in Polk, Pierce and St. Croix Counties, call Marla Butler at (715) 684-4440.
The Wisconsin Council on Children and Families is a statewide nonprofit organization that focuses on child advocacy issues. More information is available about the Council and the Better Badger Baby Bus Tour on the Council’s Web site at www.wccf.org.
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