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Parent Leadership & Advocacy Cohorts: How to Join 2025

September 2024

The ELN Parent Advocacy & Leadership Cohorts are an exciting opportunity for parents of young children to build their leadership and advocacy skills while working to strengthen childhood and family systems in their communities. This six-month virtual program is designed to empower parents to become influential voices and leaders in shaping early childhood initiatives where they live. We define parent as anyone who is the primary caregiver for a child, whether they be the biological, adoptive or foster parent, or other relative.

Participants in the cohort will come together as part of a supportive learning community, where they will grow as leaders, explore community-building strategies, and learn how to design and lead impactful, parent-driven projects. The next cohort is set to launch in March 2025, and a Spanish-language cohort will follow in April 2025.

Si usted es hispanohablante y está interesado en ser parte de esta oportunidad, consulte esta página: Grupos de liderazgo para padres y madres de ELN: Cómo participar 2025

Tags: Building Strong Communities, Early Learning Nation Collective
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Grupos de liderazgo para padres y madres de ELN: Cómo participar 2025

September 2024

El programa, Grupos de Liderazgo y Defensa de los Padres y Madres de ELN (ELN Parent Advocacy & Leadership Cohorts en ingles), ofrece una oportunidad para que los padres, madres, y cuidadores de niños pequeños. Estamos buscando personas interesadas en desarrollar sus habilidades de liderazgo y defensa mientras trabajan para fortalecer los sistemas infantiles y familiares en sus comunidades. Este programa virtual de seis meses está diseñado para empoderar a los padres/madres para que crezcan como líderes y creen iniciativas para mejorar sus comunidades, con un enfoque en los niños desde la etapa prenatal hasta los 8 años y las familias.

Los participantes de la cohorte se reunirán como parte de una comunidad de aprendizaje de apoyo, donde crecerán como líderes, explorarán estrategias de desarrollo comunitario y aprenderán a diseñar y liderar proyectos impactantes impulsados ​​por los padres. La próxima cohorte en español se lanzará en abril de 2025.

Tags: Building Strong Communities, Early Learning Nation Collective
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Early Learning Community Cohorts: How to Join 2024-2025

September 2024

The Early Learning Community Cohorts are an exciting opportunity for communities to advance local early childhood initiatives through a collaborative, six-month virtual program. This program is designed to empower local leaders to transform early learning systems and improve outcomes for children and families. Communities participating in the cohort will use the Early Learning Community Action Guide and Assessment Tool to build customized action plans that address the unique needs of their local context. The next ELC Cohort will launch in November 2024, with additional cohorts launching in 2025.

Tags: Building Strong Communities, Early Learning Nation Collective
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A Community that CARES for Young Adults: A Youth-Centered Housing Policy Agenda for New York City

September 2024

Young people in New York City face significant barriers to affordable, stable housing, with high rents, limited assistance, and a complex system making it difficult for many to secure a safe place to live. CARES Ambassadors envision a housing system that respects their independence and provides affordable, reliable housing in safe communities, particularly for youth aging out of foster care and youth of color. Learn more about A Youth-Centered Housing Policy Agenda for New York City here.

Tags: Child Welfare, Youth, CARES: Creating Actionable and Real Solutions
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A Community That CARES for Young Adults: A Youth-Centered Housing Policy Agenda for Los Angeles

September 2024

Young people in Los Angeles face extreme housing challenges due to high costs, limited assistance, and a complex system, with many struggling to afford rent or navigate housing programs. CARES Ambassadors envision a housing system that provides stability, safety, and support, allowing them to focus on their goals and well-being, particularly for those aging out of foster care and youth of color. Learn more about A Youth-Centered Housing Policy Agenda for Los Angeles here.

Tags: Child Welfare, Youth, CARES: Creating Actionable and Real Solutions
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A Community that CARES for Young Adults: A Youth-Centered Mental Health and Well-Being Agenda for Atlanta

September 2024

Young people in Georgia face significant barriers to accessing mental health services, including a shortage of providers, high costs, and inadequate insurance coverage. CARES Ambassadors in Atlanta call for universal access to high-quality, culturally responsive care that affirms their identities and provides the support they need to thrive. Learn more about A Youth-Centered and Mental Health Well-Being Agenda for Atlanta here.

Tags: Child Welfare, Youth, CARES: Creating Actionable and Real Solutions
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McIntyre v. Howard, Progress of Kansas Department of Children and Families, Kansas Department of Aging and Disability Services, and Kansas Department of Health and Environment (January 1, 2023 – December 31, 2023

September 2024

This report provides an assessment of the State of Kansas’ progress towards achieving the Performance Goals, Practice Improvements, and Outcomes of the McIntyre v. Howard Settlement Agreement for calendar year 2023.

(144 pp)

Tags: Child Welfare, Child Welfare Reform Through Class Action Litigation
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Safe Havens II: We Must Affirm and Support Transgender, Nonbinary, and Gender Diverse Youth in Out-of-Home Systems

August 2024

The Safe Havens II interactive report underscores the importance of accountability to ensure the safety and well-being of TNGD youth by centering the voices of seven TNGD youth contributors with lived experience in out-of-home systems. Created by Lambda Legal, Unicorn Solutions, Children’s Rights, and the Center for the Study of Social Policy, this report serves as a crucial roadmap for policymakers and allies, features data on current policy and challenges for TNGD youth in out-of-home systems, as well as the experiences of and solutions from our youth contributors. Learn more. 

Tags: LGBTQ+, getREAL
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Standing on Our Principles: How the Child Tax Credit can Promote the Economic Security and Well-Being of Children and Families

June 2024

Every child deserves the opportunity to grow and thrive. During this briefing from June 2024, Rep. Rosa DeLauro (CT-3) and Rep. Jimmy Gomez (CA-34) spoke about the importance of expanding the Child Tax Credit (CTC) to reduce child poverty, and a panel of parents from across the country discussed how the CTC can promote family well-being and bring equity to the tax code as we look toward 2025 and the expiration of key provisions of the Trump Administration’s Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017.

Tags: Addressing Poverty, Automatic Benefit for Children (ABC) Coalition
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Putting Principles Into Action: Building an Early Relational Health Ecosystem

April 2024

Early relational health  integrates science-based and experience-informed ideas, values, and practices which elevate the significance of the earliest attentive, responsive, nurturing, and reciprocal caregiver-child interactions in promoting children’s healthy development and well-being. This report outlines the actionable implications of 10 foundational principles of the early relational health paradigm.

(26 pp)

Tags: Young Children & Their Families, Advancing Early Relational Health
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