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New Child Care Roadmap Shows States Are Transforming Child Care While Advocating for New Federal Investments

November 29, 2023

In our new report, Child Care Policy Roadmap 2023, we highlight policies enacted in states – red, blue, and purple – that serve as building blocks for a transformative child care system. It builds on a policy roadmap released several years ago that laid out the major areas of work that all states need to take on to transform our child care system. It turns out that the ideas included in that report were not pipe dreams, and many states have put them into action.

Montana’s Push to Improve Early Education Includes a Partnership to Protect Tribal Languages

October 9, 2023

Zero to Five Montana is improving early education by helping to protect the languages of the state’s 12 Native American tribes. It’s an effort to enrich children, support early educators, and draw on the experience and expertise of the larger community. Young children experience a better understanding of their own cultural identity when they can learn their tribal language, and this cultural knowledge helps heal some aspects of generational trauma that many indigenous families live with.

Alliance Webinar on Maternal Mental Health

October 5, 2023

In this webinar, the Alliance and RH Impact (formerly the National Birth Equity Collaborative) dive into the issue of maternal mental health and explore how states and communities can provide stronger and more equitable support to expecting and new parents.

Alliance Webinar on Supporting the Perinatal Workforce in Policy and Practice

September 13, 2023

The perinatal workforce plays an indispensable role in ensuring the well-being and survival of pregnant people and their babies throughout pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum. However, systemic issues and social disparities continue to persist, leaving many birthing people, particularly Black and Indigenous communities, without access to the quality maternal health care they deserve. The Alliance and co-host Black Mamas Matter Alliance will explore strategies to better equip, support and advance the Black maternal, reproductive, and perinatal workforce.

The Alliance Launches Second Cohort to Support Advocates Centering Lived Experience and Sharing Power

August 9, 2023

The Alliance for Early Success is launching a second cohort of the Centering Parent and Practitioner Power (CPPP) Community of Practice aimed at strengthening the capacity of state grantees seeking to build authentic and impactful partnerships that are rooted in lived experiences and values of racial equity and shared power. The eight-month cohort experience creates the space for courageous conversations necessary to deepen the understanding, appreciation, and skills to equitably center the expertise of community members in policy and advocacy work.

Alliance Webinar on Community Voice in Maternal Health Solutions

August 8, 2023

In the journey to achieving maternal health equity, the voices and experiences of birthing people and families impacted by these disparities are our most powerful catalysts for change. Despite navigating the painful realities of inequities in maternal health, they remain underrepresented in shaping solutions. It’s time to rewrite this narrative. In this webinar hosted by Elephant Circle and Alliance for Early Success, panelists explore best practices and approaches to community-driven maternal health solutions to address disparities in maternal morbidity and mortality.

Alliance for Early Success Receives $10-Million Investment from MacKenzie Scott and Launches Innovative New Early Childhood Power Equity Fund

June 28, 2023

The Alliance for Early Success, a 50-state early childhood policy nonprofit, announced today a $10-million grant from philanthropist MacKenzie Scott. The unrestricted investment will fund the launch of the Power Equity Initiative, a bold strategy to grow an influential voice for young children at the state level by catalyzing equitable coalitions in which parents, advocates, practitioners, and other diverse voices work collaboratively to improve policies and increase funding.

Alliance for Early Success Juneteenth Statement on America’s Enduring Racial Disparities

June 19, 2023

As the Alliance for Early Success joins our neighbors across the country in the commemoration of Juneteenth, we also mark the enduring impact of slavery and the ever-present ways it shapes the ways we live today. Racism remains entrenched in our country’s systems – both in our policies and in the comfortable habits that perpetuate inequity.

Child Care NEXT 2023 Progress Snapshot: Centering Equity and Lived Experience

May 26, 2023

Across the Child Care NEXT states, there have been significant developments in the work to solidify their coalitions with equity and lived experience at the center.

Alliance Webinar on Indigenous Sovereignty and the Indian Child Welfare Act

April 19, 2023

WEBINAR Native American and Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) advocates provide a closer look at the importance of this legislation and how states can act to preserve its protections.

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