How Children's Advocates and Service Providers can use KidsCampaigns
As someone who works for kids, you may sometimes feel isolated—not only
from other advocates and service providers, but from the wider community. Use
KidsCampaigns to develop new tools, gather powerful community and constituency
building information, connect with other advocates and providers, and
contribute your ideas to the nation.
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Get
started—and keep going—by using the KidsCampaigns' online
primer (it's also offered in traditional book form) called "101 Things You Can
Do for Our Children's Future," by Richard Louv. The guide suggests ways that
advocates and providers work with parents, seniors, educators, businesspeople,
librarians and others to create safe places for kids, establish a community
child care plan, market cities as pro-child, and much more.
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Get smart: Find
the data and documents you need from the U.S. Census Bureau, other federal
agencies, and nonprofit organizations. For example: discover how American
voters ranked children's issues as the most important issue in their vote for
president—beating out such popular concerns as crime and violence, social
security and taxes; discover the latest news related to substance abuse
prevention; get a bird's eye view of high school graduates' work options and
the size of the summer youth labor force. Link to the White House's Economic
Statistics Briefing Room to find the latest numbers on potential earnings for
high school graduates, rising prices vs. rising earnings, and the poverty rate
for children. If you are interested in air pollution and the increase in
childhood asthma, the effect of pesticides on children, and much more, this is
the place to go.
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Get connected:
Find out what other advocates around the country are doing to improve the lives
of kids—how you can help, and how these groups can help you.
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Headline stories: Read about a new national survey on how voters view
children's issues. Visit our new section on teens, drugs, and parenting; learn
how community leaders can create powerful links between schools and
churches, which together offer parenting classes and other family support
services. Explore other new and effective community-based tools to make our streets,
parks and homes safe for kids. Learn how negative peer pressure on
education can be replaced by positive adult influences. And
discover out how advocates and providers can create a public-private child
care campaign.
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Use this feature to find the information and contacts you're looking for, from
the latest studies to discussions on current child advocacy issues.
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Sign our Guestbook, fill out our survey—and most important, give
KidsCampaigns and its readers your feedback. Let us know what you're doing in
your agency or organization to improve the lives of kids.
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An outlined guide to KidsCampaigns—from the news room to the most recent
government studies to our favorite links to education and child advocacy
organizations.
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