THE CHILD AND FAMILY ADVOCACY ROLE IN WINNING THE AGENDA
Child and family advocates have a particular role to play in advancing the care agenda. The care agenda currently is being advanced primarily by those in the caregiving worlds and those with a strong on-the-ground pulse of the hopes and needs of mothers, fathers, and families. Child and family advocates often have diffeernt, but complementary colleagues and constituents to which we can appeal. They can build a more powerful chorus that can help elect that working majority and also hold them accountable to delivering on the agenda.
OUR AGENDA TO WIN
1. OUR ACTIONS AS INDIVIDUALS
2.ENGAGING OTHERS AND JOINING THE CHORUS
2.ENGAGING OTHERS AND JOINING THE CHORUS
E3 -- engage, educate, and energize -- applies to us personally as well as those we want to influence. We can commit to engaging ourselves in the 2024 election, educating ourselves about the care agenda so we can talk about it with others, and energizing ourselves to speak out and volunteer -- including nonpartisan efforts to inform other
E3 -- engage, educate, and energize -- applies to us personally as well as those we want to influence. We can commit to engaging ourselves in the 2024 election, educating ourselves about the care agenda so we can talk about it with others, and energizing ourselves to speak out and volunteer -- including nonpartisan efforts to inform others and more partisan ones in calling upon and supporting candidates who will champion this agenda.
We can use our roles and positions of influence withi our colleagues and within organizations to share the agenda.
We also may have a relative, neighbor, or colleague with whom we disagree on most political issues. We can seek to find common ground with them through describing the care agenda and why we support it. Starting the conversation with, "regardless of how we view candidates or parties, I think we share a belief that government can and should do something that ..."
2.ENGAGING OTHERS AND JOINING THE CHORUS
2.ENGAGING OTHERS AND JOINING THE CHORUS
2.ENGAGING OTHERS AND JOINING THE CHORUS
We may well have a particular concern and area of policy interest -- expanding mental health the services to homeless youth, doing research preventing childhood trauma, developing siupport networks for parents of children with autism, and many others. At the same time, we also know that the care agenda supports those individuals and caus
We may well have a particular concern and area of policy interest -- expanding mental health the services to homeless youth, doing research preventing childhood trauma, developing siupport networks for parents of children with autism, and many others. At the same time, we also know that the care agenda supports those individuals and causes we are working to address.
We can add our voice to the chorus and encourage the organizations to which we belong to do so, as well.
Ensuring the well-being of the next generation requires actions on multiple fronts. It is not an either/or proposition.
The care agenda offers the biggest opportunity for closing the investment gap in securing our children's future that we have seen in the last fifty years. We need to show support and be part of the chorus to others who are leading that agenda -- both organizations and candidate champions.
That means joining, sharing resources, and commending those who are leading the care agenda within our states and communities.
3. MAXIMIZING OUR POLITICAL GIVING
2.ENGAGING OTHERS AND JOINING THE CHORUS
3. MAXIMIZING OUR POLITICAL GIVING
Most of us contribute to organizations and community initiatives that support children and families. We select who we support in large measure because of our belief in them and the people who run them as making effective use of our contributions.
Many of us also give to political campaigns or party PACs, but we often do not think of how e
Most of us contribute to organizations and community initiatives that support children and families. We select who we support in large measure because of our belief in them and the people who run them as making effective use of our contributions.
Many of us also give to political campaigns or party PACs, but we often do not think of how effective our contributions will be and how well they will be used.
VoteKids2024 encourages direct contributions to candidates with clear their commitments to children, families, and care. At the same time, VoteKids2024 believes that the most effective way to elect the working majority for that agenda in 2024 is through more grassroots and community efforts to elevate these issues (in campaign-language speak -- "micro-targeting and relational campaigning."
That also is our best way of bringing people together and not only securing that working majority but also creating the constituency needed to implement it fully and effectively.