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Alliance to Host Webinar on Moving from Ally to Accomplice: Supporting Native-led Priorities and Decolonizing Advocacy

This webinar explores what it truly means to move beyond performative partnership and toward accountable relationship-building with Native Nations and communities. While many organizations and systems express a desire to support Native children and families, genuine collaboration requires shifting power, centering Tribal leadership, and rethinking how decisions are made within early childhood systems.

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In Red States, Good Ideas Don’t Fail. They Never Had a Chance. 

FIELD NOTES | By Shannon Jones | Former Ohio state legislator and advocacy leader (and current Alliance Board Member) Shannon Jones encourages advocates to step back and think about their solution’s design before moving to persuasion. In policy environments of conservative-led states, it could be the key to advancing their cause.

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Alliance Webinar on Cultural Humility and Power Dynamics: Reflection, Bias, and Shared Leadership with Native Communities

This webinar focused on Native American communities and examined how power operates within early childhood systems—and within ourselves. Understanding the policy landscape and the historical harm experienced by Native American children, families, and communities was essential, but meaningful partnership also required examining bias, positionality, and the ways institutions continue to shape access, authority, and decision-making.

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