Child Care NEXT States Trade Strategies for Building Shared and Collective Power
February 28, 2022
Every two months, the Child Care NEXT state teams come together for a peer learning session on critical issues that
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.
Every two months, the Child Care NEXT state teams come together for a peer learning session on critical issues that
In 2019, advocates and community partners from around the state of Louisiana came together to make young children a priority issue in the governor’s race. In this webinar, we see how this diverse Louisiana early childhood coalition works — and its success in making early childhood a policy priority.
Elevating parent voices is a powerful form of advocacy. As allies have knowledge of the policy process, parents have lived experiences and insight on what is wrong and can be improved. Allies gathered to learn from peers how states are working to include parents in their policy development and advocacy strategy.
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.
In a classic example of what we call “the Alliance Effect,” state advocates and national experts — connected by the Alliance for Early Success — make bigs gains for kids in Louisiana.
Using strategic communication, research, and media outreach, our ally in Georgia helped overturn proposed budget cuts to the state’s pre-k program, secured funding for a new children’s mental health position at the state department, and extended postpartum Medicaid coverage. This victory is especially significant as states face drastically falling revenues.
Working with our supporters and partners in Texas and across the country, Texans Care for Children has had several great victories this year that will help more children and their families be healthy and thrive. But we are celebrating one of the biggest victories for Texas kids in recent memory: Governor Greg Abbott recently signed HB 3, the school finance bill that funds full-day pre-k for currently eligible four-year-olds.