in my two decades at edgewood, i've witnessed the devastating affect of unaddressed childhood adversity. i learned of the high cost, financial and social and treatment and interventions that attempt to address these effects many years down the line. working every day in neighborhoods where families live in poverty, trauma and toxic stress, i've seen programs come and go, leaving residents disillusioned and hopeless. first 5 has a laser-like focus on the positive developmental activities for children and their parent. in order to achieve simple but powerful outcomes, parents have the ability to meet the needs of their children, materially and emotionally, parent have a supported social network. children develop social emotional competencies that allow them to learn and navigate relationships and parents have a knowledge of child development and parenting skills. at edgewood bay view family resource center, on a budget of a little over $400,000, in 16-17, we served 500 children and families last year. that's about a 10th of the cost of a year of therapy for a child. we went into early chi