Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s Family Connects Chicago program is designed to supply teaching and help providers for first-time moms throughout the crucial weeks round childbirth. However, a program restricted to 4 hospitals, with counseling of brief period and no pre-natal providers, doesn't go far sufficient. Instead, why not embrace a complete early childhood program that has demonstrated the flexibility not solely to scale back toddler mortality but in addition shut the achievement hole for college kids, dramatically enhance commencement charges for teen moms, and considerably scale back repeat pregnancies? SEND LETTERS TO: letters@suntimes.com. Please embrace your neighborhood or hometown and a telephone quantity for verification functions. The Cradle to the Classroom program, began on the