An Open Letter to Policymakers on the Start of Your 2020 Session In this open letter to policymakers, Alliance Executive Director Helene Stebbins calls on policymakers align our nation’s values with our most important metrics and enact policies that go beyond economic health and embrace human health and well-being as an essential element of a prosperous nation.
Alliance Senior Policy Director Albert Wat has been selected as one of 13 experts named to a committee convened by the National Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine, to study “the causes and consequences of the opportunity gap for young children from birth to age eight.”
Join us for a National Issues>State Action webinar to discuss the findings of the Rapid Assessment of Pandemic Impact on Development-Early Childhood (RAPID-EC) project to date with University of Oregon Psychologist Dr. Phil Fisher, the project’s director, and Dr. Joan Lombardi, who chairs the National Advisory Group for the project and is former deputy secretary for Early Childhood Development at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
A Statement on the Acts of Terrorism in Washington, DC In this statement released to its national network, the Alliance for Early Success denounced the terrorist acts of January 6, 2021, and the racism evident in the entire crisis.
Lori McClung of Advocacy & Communication Solutions and Jason Sabo of Frontera Strategy provided clear and actionable advocacy and lobbying guidance that will help advocates achieve policy change and—more important—help dispel the reluctance and discomfort that many c3s (and many of their funders) have around policy advocacy.
“Racial inequity is a problem of bad policy, not bad people,” says best-selling author Dr. Ibram X. Kendi. On the heels of the election, we’ll hear about racist and antiracist policy, and will get answers to questions posed by state early childhood advocates about state policy.
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