In its earliest form, All Our Kin was a direct response to the ramifications that the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 had on low-income families, especially single parents of very young children. The welfare reform legislation's singular emphasis on employment meant that parents were struggling to enter the workforce without any decent child care options available to them, creating a dire situation: parents could either take any job available and leave their children in inadequate or unsafe care arrangements, or care for their young children at home and forfeit public assistance. All Our Kin bridges the divide between economic security and caretaking responsibility by combining a professional development course in early childhood education with an on-site child care collaborative. Unlike other economic development programs focused specifically either on job training or on providing child care, All Our Kin's Intensive Child Development Program innovatively addresses the two great problems faced by single parents on public assistance--lack of access to employment or education, and lack of access to child care--simultaneously. The Intensive program invests in those who are most invested in young children, and through empowering these caregivers, impacts not only their lives, but the lives of every child they go on to teach. Next