We recapped the Cleveland Connects: The First Two Thousand Days event that took place at the Ideacenter on Monday evening featuring Cleveland Metropolitan School District CEO Eric Gordon; MetroHealth's President & CEO Dr. Akram Boutros; Dr. Thea Wilson, Vice President for Children and Families at the Council for Economic Opportunities of Greater Cleveland; and Sharon Sobol Jordan, Chief of Staff for Cuyahoga County. We excerpted a City Club of Cleveland discussion on adoption; the speaker was April Dinwoodie, CEO of the Donaldson Adoption Institute.