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Illinois Advocates Centered Lived Experiences to Strengthen Access to Early Care and Education for Families Involved in the Child Welfare System

June 9, 2022

Illinois advocates worked with the state legislature and the Pritzker administration to pass Public Act 102-926. The approved legislation includes proposals developed by the state’s Early Learning Council, with support from Start Early and Illinois Action for Children. The Council’s recommendations were informed by the lived experiences of parents who access early childhood services for their children.

Family Economic Security: Allies Huddle to Trade “Whole Family” Advocacy Strategies

March 3, 2022

State advocates joined with some national organizations to discuss policy opportunities and strategies for engaging on family economic security issues impacting our youngest children and their families. The huddle highlighted early childhood state allies from Arkansas and New Mexico who are leaning into promoting policies that advance equity and family economic security.

Vermont Allies Make Strides Towards Economic Justice and Equity

November 8, 2021

Voices for Vermont’s Children built momentum for economic justice through their advocacy approach paired with consistent messaging. These allies work in partnership with coalitions and use outcome impact data to ensure that Reach Up will meet families’ basic needs for the well-being of Vermont children.

What If We Made Well-Being Our Bottom Line?

February 9, 2021

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.

After Two Years of Work in Missouri, Allies Win Executive Order to Merge State Offices Serving Youngest Children

January 29, 2021

Missouri’s governor has announced the formation of the Office of Childhood, and advocates around the state celebrated the move as a monumental step towards creating a comprehensive vision and program alignment of Missouri’s early childhood system.

How Are Our Children? Updates and Policy Implications from the RAPID-EC Surveys

January 20, 2021

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.

Oregon Voters Deliver Big Wins for Kids on Medicaid Expansion and Universal Preschool

January 6, 2021

Oregon voters delivered big wins for early childhood issues on ballot measures in the 2020 election — including a a tax increase on tobacco that will provide the last piece in the puzzle in fully funding the expansion of Medicaid eligibility. Both of these victories highlight the power of creating a broad coalition for developing and campaigning for policies that benefit children.

Dr. Ibram Kendi Tells Early Childhood Advocates It’s All About Outcomes

November 18, 2020

“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.

The National Center for Children in Poverty Uses Alliance Support to Develop Crucial State-by-State Early Childhood Policy Profiles

September 26, 2020

The National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP) has released an updated set of Early Childhood State Policy Profiles that provides a two-generation view of current policies affecting children birth through age eight. The profiles give crucial visibility into each state’s progress in early care and education, health, and parenting and family economic supports.

State Allies Gather to Explore FFPSA, Prevention, and Structural Racism in Child Welfare

August 4, 2020

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.

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