Read these brief informative pieces from For Our Babies, early child care groups, and guest bloggers. Topics cover a wide range of ideas from reading, to follow-up care for children with disabilities or other special needs, to taking action for our babies and our future.
Illinois’ Child Care Assistance Program helps subsidize the cost of daycare for 85,000 families, but the program is facing severe cuts in the proposed state budget. [Source] Meigs County, Ohio has had to shutter their Child and Family Health Services and Pregnancy Care Clinic due to a loss of state funding. The clinic, in operation […] Read more
The success of the For Our Babies mission depends on spreading the word about who we are and what we stand for. As part of this effort, Ron Lally has written a blog for the Huffington Post announcing our launch and highlighting some of the key motivations for our mission. Have you told anyone about […] Read more
Start as you mean to go on. It’s a common saying with a clear enough meaning: it’s easier to get where you’re going when your first steps are on the right path. So what can we do to put our children on the right path for finding social, emotional, and academic success? For one thing, […] Read more
So are we! That’s why our own Ron Lally will be in attendance at Building A Competitive Future Right from the Start. On April 25th, the National Center for Children in Poverty, the New York State Paid Leave Coalition, and A Better Ballance will host experts in a public forum exploring what the research says about the […] Read more
If you are in New Orleans on Thursday, March 29th, you are cordially invited to attend a For Our Babies campaign event at 6pm-8pm. Read more about this at the Louisiana Children’s Museum. Join us and stand up for our babies! Read more
Can you imagine surgery on an infant without anesthesia? Fortunately Dr. T. Berry Brazelton and his contemporaries changed how we think about and treat babies in the U.S., putting an end to such cruelty. He helped us see that babies not only respond to the environment but they also help shape it. Harvard Magazine recently […] Read more
Zero to Three published a series of downloadable fact sheets that provide a comprehensive analysis of the status of infants, toddlers, and their families in each of the 50 states and the District of Columbia. Click on the link below to find out just how well your state is doing in caring for it’s babies. […] Read more
Celebration of the For Our Babies campaign launch in San Francisco on February 29, 2012. Families, advocates, and supporters gather at first public event of the movement. Read more
This may sound like a riddle but it’s far from a laughing matter. Only four nations on Earth do not guarantee paid time-off to new mothers: the U.S., Liberia, Papua New Guinea, and Swaziland. Click on the link below to read the full research report. Paid Leave in States Brief from National Center for Children […] Read more
Easter Seals released a state-by-state report last fall on early intervention. In almost every state infants and toddlers are falling behind. The Individuals with Disabilities and Education Act (IDEA), Part C is a federal grant program designed to help states operate comprehensive early intervention services for children birth through age two years. Unfortunately the program […] Read more
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