Not Just Talk but Taking Action
One
of the organizations I signed up for to receive newsletters from was The Children’s Defense Fund. CDF is doing
some great things in terms of rallying those who operate in the child advocacy fields to aid in the fight against child
poverty, educational literacy gaps, and early childhood development barriers. They are also training collegiate age youth
workers for the summertime Freedom Schools, which engage low income youth in an environment of literacy to stem the summer loss of learning.
With the upcoming
conference planned for this summer in Cincinnati, Ohio, there are mini-plenary
sessions and workshops to address the issues mentioned above. One highlight for
the issue of child poverty will be a workshop structured to give information
and strategies for reduction of poverty. Another session will address an
unspoken issue of child homelessness. There
are 1.6 million homeless children, or 1 in 45 every year. This session will
provide advocates with information on the current trends in homelessness and
strategies to deal with such situations.
There
are sessions dealing with the issue of offering full day kindergarten and how
it benefits children in making them ready for school. It is necessary to invest
in early education and our policy makers can hear our voices if we speak up and
speak out for our children! I have
registered to attend this conference to explore the various strategies that are
presented by experts in their fields pertaining to the welfare of children. Would
anyone like to join me? A link has been provided below for further information
for the CDF Summer Conference.
The information in this newsletter is direcly related to the topics we have addressed this week in class. We have discusses policy makers finally realizing that the investment in early childhood education is well worth the cost and will save hundrends of thousands in taxpayers dollars in the longrun. We have discussed issues with barriers to early childhood education, the newsleter presents information within it to advocate and help change the ccourse of poverty in todays families.
The Children Defense Fund has created a great ideal to involve the troops in this fight. Because they have to deal with the stress of dealing with the war and dead, it is great to give them a fight that produces life for our countries children. And it is good to hear that they are providing positive programs for our youth to get involved with during the summer and the fact that it is geared towards literacy makes it grand. Our children do not read as much as they should because of all the technology devices at hand. So I lift my hands to their efforts.
ReplyDeleteGreat post! I am sure you will gain a lot of information from these sessions. You are lucky to be close and be able to attend. The issue of poverty and children and Kindergarten are indeed hot topics and it is good to attend current events discussing the subject.
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