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.
Early childhood advocates from across the country — representing a diversity of states — have come together to recommend nine consensus principles for investing in early care and education. These principles were developed to guide leaders at every level as they determine whether and how to invest new funding in the child care system.
As the Alliance for Early Success joins others in marking the day when justice was deferred no longer, the organization is reaffirming its commitment to continuing to name the racism that is entrenched in our country’s systems – both in our policies and in the comfortable habits that perpetuate inequity.
WEBINAR The Alliance for Early Success and Topos Partnership explored concrete, research-based strategies for effectively engaging less race-attentive audiences to support policies for racial equity.
WEBINAR Experts from Child Trends offer a critical look at data and racial equity in early childhood policy, as well as a dive into how to incorporate racial equity principles into early childhood policy advocacy work.
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.
“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.
A national workgroup of early childhood advocacy organizations convened by the Alliance for Early Success has released the Build Stronger Child Care Policy Roadmap, a comprehensive guide to help child care advocates across the country focus and align their priorities as state governments and federal agencies work to rebuild the nation’s child care system.
This Alliance for Early Success National Issues>State Action featured dynamic presentations by Allison Blake, CEO of Child and Family Agency of Southeastern Connecticut and former commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Children and Families and Jeremy Kohomban, President and CEO of The Children’s Village and President of Harlem Dowling. Both are leading figures in child welfare practice and policy.
In a keynote presentation and then in a smaller discussion group with state early childhood advocates, nationally recognized birth-equity voice Dr. Joia Crear-Perry spoke powerfully on structural racism as a key driver of high rates of Black infant and maternal mortality.
EDITORIAL Alliance for Early Success Senior Policy Director Karen Howard reflects on the late Rep. John Lewis and how 1965’s “Bloody Sunday” should inspire us to pursue antiracist policies in early childhood advocacy.
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