The following are resources for you to use in your ECMH advocacy efforts within your community, with your political and business leaders, and other ECMH stakeholders.
Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP)
Through careful research and analysis and effective advocacy, CLASP develops and promotes new ideas, mobilizes others, and directly assists governments and advocates to put in place successful strategies that deliver results that matter to people across America. We are nonpartisan and situated at the intersection of local practice, national research, and state and federal policy, and striving to translate each world to each other.
Center on Infant Mental Health and Development
The Center on Infant Mental Health and Development promotes interdisciplinary research, education and practice and advances policy related to the social and emotional development of all children during the first five years.
Harvard Center for the Developing Child
Drawing on the full breadth of intellectual resources available across Harvard University’s schools and affiliated hospitals, the Center on the Developing Child generates, translates, and applies knowledge in the service of improving life outcomes for children in the United States and throughout the world.
The Center on the Developing Child was founded in 2006 on the belief that the vitality and sustainability of any society depend on the extent to which it provides opportunities early in life for all children to achieve their full potential and engage in responsible and productive citizenship. We view healthy child development as the foundation of economic prosperity, strong communities, and a just society, and our mission is to advance that vision by leveraging science to enhance child well-being through innovations in policy and practice.
Heckman Equation
Research. Data. Lectures. Advocacy. Use these resources to promote the value of investing in early childhood development—just use them wisely.
Anyone looking for upstream solutions to the biggest problems facing America should look to Nobel Prize winning University of Chicago Economics Professor James Heckman's work to understand the great gains to be had by investing in early and equal development of human potential.
Maternal, Infant and Toddler Mental Health Advocacy Project
The Maternal, Infant and Toddler Mental Health Advocacy Project, funded through the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, is a national initiative seeking to address the impact of maternal depression and infant and toddler mental health on early learning and development and later school readiness. This project seeks to raise awareness of the scope of mental health problems; offer concrete opportunities for prevention, screening and referral; and strongly advocate for the expansion of mental health outreach activities and services.
Partnership for America's Economic Success-Advocacy Tools
Investing in children in their earliest years provides real economic returns. Persuading policy makers to support early childhood investments, however, can be a real challenge. The evidence of effectiveness must be solid and it must be conveyed by trusted messengers. Business leaders provide a powerful voice when it comes to advocating for sound investments.
This toolkit is designed to support business leaders, the organizations to which they belong, and the advocacy groups that can connect them to the issue. We welcome ideas for additional tools to support your work. Please send suggestions to info@partnershipforsuccess.org.
PEW Center on the States
Research and policy solutions focus on areas critical to children, including access to adequate dental health care; pre-kindergarten programs for all three-and four-year-olds; and home visiting programs that assist new families. We also study the benefits of early childhood interventions and programs—and how investing in children yields significant dividends for families, communities and the U.S. economy.
The Future Starts Now: Policy Pocket Card
ZERO TO THREE's newest advocacy tool, the Policy Pocket Card, provides you with a quick and easy way to communicate effectively with policymakers about what we know, what we can do and how we all benefit from supporting early childhood experiences beginning at birth.
ZERO TO THREE Policy Videos
We need your help, your voice, and your action to make a difference for babies and toddlers! The battle over the budget has been extremely difficult thus far, and unfortunately, our efforts to maintain funding for early childhood services are long from over. Check out ZERO TO THREE's federal policy baby blog for details about what is happening on Capitol Hill.
To make the biggest impact possible, we ask you to watch the video message and send it to as many people as you can through your email newsletters, blogs, list servs, and email contact lists. For those who want to watch the first two video messages, "Babies and the Budget" and "Stop the Cuts," they can be viewed at Together, we can make a difference in this budget process! Watch "The Total Budget Amount Matters" and show policymakers what is at stake for babies, toddlers, young children and their families.
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