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 Alliance and the National Indian Health Board offer an overview of the Indian health system, with a focus on how federal Indian law, tribal sovereignty, and the government’s trust responsibility shape access to care for Native mothers, infants, and young children.
The Alliance for Early Success announced today that it has named Daniela Villasmil to a newly created role: Manager of Responsive Support and Network Engagement. The new position reflects the Alliance’s expanding commitment to highly responsive support for early childhood policy advocates in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.
The Alliance for Early Success announced today that it has named team members Albert Wat and Stinson Liles to newly created Deputy Director roles. The new roles are part of the Alliance’s implementation of a new distributed leadership structure that will allow it to meet the growing and changing demand for the support it provides to state early childhood policy advocates.
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.
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.
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.
After multiple requests from state advocates, the Alliance team put out a request for resources related to the 2024 election cycle and state and national advocates responded to a round-up request to share voter guides, info sheets, candidate questions, etc. with the Alliance network.
Trista Harris of FutureGood spoke to the Alliance for Early Success state allies as they gathered in Washington, DC. She challenged the group to apply futurism tools to early childhood advocacy, enabling them to engage both each other and policymakers in bold solutions.
