Partners
- BellaBoos’s Child Play Center
- Centier Bank
- Chesterton-Porter Rotary Club
- Child Care Resource and Referral
- Dunebrook
- GEMINUS
- Highland Community Parks & Recreation
- Indiana Association of United Ways
- Indiana University Northwest
- La Porte Family YMCA
- Lake Area United Way
- Lake County Schools
- Lilly Endowment
- Merrillville High School
- Parents as Teachers
- Pines Village Retirement Community
- Portage Community Parks & Recreation
- Porter County Community Foundation
- Purdue North Central Women’s Association
- Purdue University North Central
- Regional Federal Credit Union
- Sunrise Kiwanis Club
- The Urban League of Northwest Indiana
- Town of Munster
- United Way of LaPorte County
- United Way of Porter County
- University of Phoenix
- Valparaiso Community Parks & Recreation
- Valparaiso Community Schools
- Valparaiso Police Department: School Safety Division
- Westville Schools
- Workforce Development Center Services, Inc.
Steering Committee
- Alexis Pontius-Jones - Vice President, Lakeshore Foods Corp.
- Carrie Cate-Clements, Ed.D. - Manager, Client Engagement Lanair Information Technology Services
- Cheryl DeLeon, Ph.D. - Assistant Professor of Psychology, Purdue University North Central
- Dan Kielmen, Ph.D. - Associate Professor Elementary Education, Indiana University Northwest
- Danny Lackey - Coordinator of Diversity Programming, Merrillville High School
- Gail Johnson - Public Advocacy & Education Director, Indiana PAT State Leader Dunebrook
- James Thorne, Ph.D. - Superintendent, Westville Schools
- Janice Englander Katz, Ph.D. - Clinical Psychologist
- Jennifer Khadivar - Associate Campus Director, University of Phoenix
- Jeremy Miller - Vice President- Regional Manager, Centier Bank
- Kevin Kosek - Director of Business Development, Regional Federal Credit Union
- Kimberly Hendricks - Education Coordinator,-Workforce Development Services, Inc.
- Kimberly Smith - Executive Director, Parents as Teachers of Lake County
- LaDonya Powell - Community Service Coordinator, GEMINUS
- Laurie Mullett - CEO, Pines Village Retirement Community, United Way of Porter County
- Lou Martinez - President, Lake Area United Way
- Mary Jane Eisenhauer, Ed.D. - SB6 Chair, Early Childhood Education; Assistant Professor, PNC
- Nancy Dworkin - Community Representative
- Pat Swanson, Ph.D. - Director of School Safety, Valparaiso Police Department
- Patricia Carlisle - Community Representative
- Renee Graff - Child Development Specialist, LaPorte Family YMCA
- Sandy Basala, Ph.D. - Superintendent of Visitor Services Lake County Parks
- Sharon Kish - President, United Way of Porter County
- Stacy Schmidt - Director of Elementary Education, Valparaiso Community Schools
- Vanessa Allen - President & CEO of Urban League of NWI
- William Hanna - Executive Director, United Way of LaPorte County
