OpenDoors: Unlocking Local Children’s Potential

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The efforts of energetic founder/director Jen Ramming, a host of parent volunteer mentors, and the parents of the children being served provide an individually-based, holistic family support system, as well as proof that “family” is not limited to genetic particulars. Ramming has spent the past several years building relationships with mothers, school administrators and teachers, with the intention of focusing on at-risk children’s varied needs. She explains the team approach of OpenDoors, sharing that they do their best work “in partnership with other people and other agencies who are ‘best in class’ at what they do.”