CLOCKWISE FROM LEFT: Mikkel Parker, Orlando Hernandez, Maddox Hemberger, Riley Thompson, Liam Cook, Mallory Harvey and Ariel Cruz watch a movie before lunch at Adventure Planet; Amy Ivy of Adventure Planet, a child care facility in west Wichita, rocks Brayden Smith. Last October, the state’s first crisis nursery opened inside Adventure Planet, which sits in one of the 10 ZIP codes in Wichita with the greatest need for abuse intervention because of poverty levels, past reports of abuse and other risk factors. The crisis center effort sprang from the work of the Coalition for Child Abuse Prevention in Wichita; Adventure Planet’s Emily Kilgore reads to Ariel Cruz, Ethan Cotton, Isaac Soloranzo, Sophie Threet and Mikkel Parker.
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