How Policymakers 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 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.
	Get smart: Find the data and documents you need federal agencies and nonprofit organizations. Learn 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. Jump to our chronological listing of all the press releases and related fact sheets issued by HHS on the a billion dollar increase in delinquent child support payments and a reduction in 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. Along with many other reports, see the statistical rankings for the fifty states and the District of Columbia, including Birth Rate and Infant Mortality Rate and Reported Cases of Child Abuse.
	Get Connected: Find out what people around the country are doing to improve the lives of kids—and how these campaigns and organizations can help you shape public policy.
	Headline stories: Visit our new section on teens, drugs, and parenting; learn how government and 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. Consider the policy implications negative peer pressure on education can be replaced by positive adult influences. Discover how to create public-private child care campaigns.
	Use this feature to find the information and contacts you're looking for, from the latest studies to discussions on current child advocacy issues.
	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.
	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.