How Religious Institutions Can Use KidsCampaigns

No institutions are in a better position to make a difference for children than our places of worship. Churches, synagogues, and other places of worship are already focusing in creative ways on the needs of children and families, but much more can be done. Here's how your place of worship 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. Learn how religious institutions can organize activities that help families connect, blend the generations, offset the day-care burden, work to strengthen marriages, reach out to teens and fathers, create youth groups, start parent-support groups, form partnerships with community organizations to reduce child poverty and parent isolation, and much more.


Get smart: Find the data and documents you need from 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, social security and taxes. Jump to our fact sheets on trends in delinquent child support payments or 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 and religious leaders have galvanized public support; for instance, read how the Florida Children's Campaign 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 religious and other community leaders are creating public-private child care campaigns. Learn how community leaders can create powerful links between schools and churches to offer parenting classes and other family support services. Learn how banks work with churches and nonprofit community organizations to promote home ownership in poor neighborhoods. Explore how negative peer pressure can be replaced by positive adult influences.


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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 community to improve the lives of kids.


Contents 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.