Watch the Alliance and Elephant Circle Webinar on Advancing Midwife Policy
April 23, 2025
The US has the worst perinatal outcomes of any developed nation in the world. In countries where outcomes are better,
The Alliance for Early Success is a 50-state resource for early-childhood advocates as they pursue the big, sustained impact that will ensure every child in every state, birth through age eight, has an equal chance to grow, learn, and succeed.
The US has the worst perinatal outcomes of any developed nation in the world. In countries where outcomes are better,
As part of our celebration of this year’s Black Maternal Health Week (April 11-17), the Alliance is spotlighting a few of the maternal health organizations that you may not have heard about. The Beloved Early Education and Care Collective (BEE Collective) works in the southern part of South Carolina, outside of Charleston, and is focused on building on the assets of the pregnant people, children, and caregivers who are furthest from opportunity — work that creates the kind of deep community that heals itself and builds increasing power.
As part of our celebration of this year’s Black Maternal Health Week (April 11-17), the Alliance is spotlighting I Be Black Girl, a maternal health organization that focuses on policy and power building, Black-led investments, birth justice, and economic justice.
The Alliance and the Center for the Study of Child Care Employment discuss CSCCE’s 2024 child care workforce index and how the index’s messages and findings can be used to drive policy change that centers the experiences of early educators in all 50 states.
Early childhood and reproductive justice advocates share a vision that parents nurture their children in safe and healthy environments. Both movements value family decision-making, community knowledge and leadership, and policy change. Together, early childhood and reproductive justice advocates can create a world in which maternal and child health are optimized and families with young children live in thriving communities. This webinar explores the history and origins of the reproductive justice movement, reviews of the structural and systemic policy impacts on Prenatal-to-3, and names the mutual values and priorities shared with early childhood advocates.
In partnership with the Alliance for Early Success, ZERO TO THREE has launched a collaboration community to support Alliance state grantees in elevating family voice and cultivating their leadership in advocacy and policy. A key focus of the community is exploring strategies to shift organizational culture and systems in ways that support meaningful partnership with families from the beginning of policy agenda development through the policy implementation process.
The Alliance for Early Success and ZERO TO THREE recently launched a new collaborative community on Part C Early Intervention, where advocates can connect and reflect with other advocates working in this critical state policy area.
Advocates from more than a dozen states recently logged into a quick-response huddle to talk through issues relating to public statements—namely when, why, how, and to whom we should make them. The conversation was facilitated by Josh Gryniewicz of Odd Duck Communications, the Alliance’s new responsive support provider for communications and narrative framing.
Each year, the Alliance for Early Success surveys early childhood policy advocates representing all 50 states and the District of Columbia to create its annual 50-State Early Childhood Policy Progress and Landscape Report. The 2024 report, released in January, shows that support for state early childhood policies and funding continued to be strong, with policymakers from every region and political landscape acting to improve their early childhood policies.
When a state ally recently brought on its first-ever Statewide Engagement Director, the organization’s leadership reached out for input as they developed an engagement plan. Jacy Montoya Price, the Alliance’s Senior Director of Advocacy and Issue Campaigns shared these tips that are useful grounding for anyone taking on theis work for the first time.