How Community Leaders Can Use KidsCampaigns

	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 you as a community leader can work with parents, seniors, educators, businesspeople, librarians and others to create safe places for kids, provide opportunities for children to practice community skills, market your city as pro-child, and much more.
	Get smart: Find the data you need from federal agencies and nonprofit organizations. Find out 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 social security. Jump to our listing of fact sheets issued by HHS, on a broad range of topics, including trends in delinquent child support payments to trends and sudden infant deaths. Gather perspective on children's issues from a spectrum of organizations, from our link to the White House's Economic Statistics Briefing Room to The American Enterprise Institute's work on crime, welfare, teen pregnancy, and drug abuse.
	Tap into hot campaigns. Find out how other community leaders have galvanized public support; read, for instance, how the state-wide nonprofit Florida Children's Campaign, sponsored by the Florida Center for Children and Youth, launched a hard-hitting election-year campaign on behalf of kids that uses the latest in polling, media strategy, political outreach to campaigns, and voter education and get-out-the-vote drives.
	Get connected: Find out what people and organizations around the country are doing to improve the lives of kids—and how to contact these organizations.
	Headline stories: Read how community leaders are creating public-private child care campaigns. 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 can be replaced by positive adult influences.
	Use this feature to find the information and contacts you're looking for, from education studies to the latest stats on teen pregnancy and fatherhood.
	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 community to improve the lives of kids.
	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.