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NWLC provides: state-level policy analysis, annual reports and research materials, messaging guidance, communications trainings, and technical assistance to advance policies that support women and their families. They also foster a learning community for advocates to enhance peer learning and routinely connect advocates with one another who working on similar issues or facing similar challenges. Child care, family leave, tax policy, housing policy, pregnancy accommodation, and child nutrition programs are just a few of the many areas central to the lives of women and girls where NWLC’s policy work intersects with state early childhood policy advocacy.
State allies can call on NWLC to:
NWLC has extensive research on child care issues for low-income families, communities of color, and early childhood providers, and educators. Resources can focus on strategies for addressing the expiration of pandemic relief funding for child care; the role of family, friend, and neighbor (FFN) care; the impact of child care on women’s economic security; and policies that enhance the resiliency of the child care system for the long-term.
NWLC equips state-based advocates and grassroots organizers with the knowledge of federal and state policy they need to be forceful advocates in their states. This includes one-on-one technical assistance as well as conference calls, memos, fact sheets, and convenings that facilitate peer-to-peer learning and strengthen state-federal feedback loops.
NWLC tracks, reports, and analyzes state decisions around key child care policies and the use of federal child care funds. NWLC can help state advocates develop their agendas and identify priorities for improving their child care policies and ensuring effective and creative use of federal and state funds to support child care and early education.
NWLC can provide technical assistance to advocates seeking guidance around state tax policies regarding child and dependent care, including providing policy analysis and legislative language. Provide assistance with messaging strategies for support of child care and early education policies. In addition to offering monthly communications strategy workshops, NWLC can offer specific guidance on messaging and campaigns for child care and early education.
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