The Advocacy Network is an engaging, year-long experience for emerging advocacy leaders. It is a new structure for connecting and supporting educator-advocates across all regions of the state, while building participants’ advocacy skills and first-hand experience. Together, we will bring a new influence to state and local policy to advance an equitable early childhood system for children, families, and educators.

 
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Advocacy Network cohort 1:
Reception for Reflection, August 9, 2022
 
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Our Advocacy Network in Action,
Cohort 2:
MyHanh Barrette
Leea Cooley
Cohort 1:
Felicia Billy
Anna Ricci-Mejia
Kelly Marion
Gloria Valentin and Yolanda Ramos
Huong Vu and Marcia Gadson-Harris
   

Strategies for Children welcomes our second cohort (2022-2023):
Adrienne Armstrong, MyHanh Barrette, Leea Cooley, Nola Glatzel, Sidney Hamilton,
Wairimu Macharia, Parisa Maryam Fakhri, Jeanne McKenna, Sarah Muil, Jayd Rodrigues, and Shauna Trick.

  • Advocates attend monthly meetings, build advocacy knowledge and skills, network with peers, reach and teach others in their local community.
  • Cohort reflects the diversity of the early education and care field: demographics, provider type, geography.

Together we will create a new, sustainable advocacy infrastructure to:.

  • Impact state and local policy for early education and care (i.e., state budget and legislation for high-quality, affordable child care; EEC policy; early childhood mental health; local initiatives).
  • Engage communities. Advocates will engage thousands of colleagues and community members in advocacy activities (i.e., letters, testimonies) and events (i.e., trainings, tours, advocacy days).

For more information, contact Titus DosRemedios at tdosremedios@strategiesforchildren.org.

Funding for this project is generously provided by Boston Children’s Hospital— Collaboration for Community Health.

 
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