ADVOCACY
To make your voice heard on early childhood issues:
- Advancing Early Childhood Policy - This link is provided by Nebraska Children and Families Foundation and is intended to serve as a resource for policy makers, and provides advocacy information regarding the early childhood need.
- Federal Office Holders - contact your congressman
- Senator Roster - find your senator
- Nebraska Unicameral -information about your state representative and state early childhood issues
- Children’s Defense Fund - information on a national level
- Early Childhood Programs Pay Off - Posting on JournalStar.com – Sept 3, 2009
- NAEYC Children’s Champions - information about early care and education on a national level
- National Head Start Association - Head Start’s political action committee
- Reduce the Deficit- As Congress sits down to write the budget for both 2011 and 2012 it is looking for ways to both reduce the deficit and increase the effectiveness of dollars spent on education.
- Voices for Children in Nebraska - providing advocacy and education services in Nebraska
PAST EVENTS:
Legislative Breakfast - January 31, 2011
Laws regarding advocacy and education for nonprofit organizations
The Birth to Five Policy Alliance was established in 2005 to help shift the odds for very young children and narrow the achievement gap. The goal is to promote innovative and successful policy ideas that support families in their parenting role and ensure positive early childhood development and learning opportunities for at-risk infants, toddlers, preschoolers and their families.
Getting A Leg Up On Childhood is a video that was on Good Morning America about Educare on Wednesday, September 9, 2009.
James Heckman, the Nobel Prize winning economist is a force to be reckoned with when it comes to the importance of investing early. We highly encourage you to visit his new website at http://www.heckmanequation.org/ and watch the videos and utilize the tools. Share them far and wide – especially with policy leaders and elected officials who get the final vote on how we budget our money as a state and a nation. And as always, thank you for taking the time to speak out on behalf of children.
“Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.“
….Benjamin Franklin