Child Advocacy groups

1. By – Chelsea Griffin
EDUC 455
11/12/13

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Values—
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Their vision is that every child will grow up in a
safe, loving, and stable family.
CWLA’s focus is children and youth who may
have experienced abuse, neglect, family disruption,
or a range of other factors that jeopardize their
safety, permanence, or well-being.
CWLA also focuses on the families, caregivers, and
the communities that care for and support these
children.

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PRIDE- Parent Resources for Information, Development and
Education
Meets the protective, developmental, cultural, and
permanency needs of children placed with foster families and
adoptive families.
Strengthens families, whether they are families of origin,
blended, extended, kinship, foster, adoptive, or members of a
tribe or clan.
Enhances the quality of family foster care and adoption
services by providing a standardized, structured framework
that uses training to enhance family assessment (home study)
and selection; for foster parent in-service training; and for
ongoing professional development.
Shares resources among public and voluntary child welfare
agencies, colleges and universities, foster parent and adoptive
parent associations, and child welfare organizations.

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Values
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Non profit, non partisan organization, working to
make children , youth and families a national
political priority.
―Helping children survive and thrive so that they
have the opportunity to grow up to be contributing
citizens must be a top priority for our
government. Failing our children today is not just
morally wrong; it is counterproductive - ultimately
leaving us less competitive in the global economy.‖

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ECM promotes the adoption of smart policies
for children and youth, including:
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Ensuring that children have access to affordable,
comprehensive health care services
Expanding early-care and learning opportunities
and after-school programs
Preventing violence against children in their homes
and communities
Alleviating child poverty.

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United Way’s
Vision
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a world where all
individuals and
families achieve
their human
potential through
education, income
stability and healthy
lives.

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In 2008, United Way initiated a 10-year program
designed to achieve the following goals by 2018:
Improve education, and cut the number of high
school dropouts — 1.2 million students, every year —
in half.
Help people achieve financial stability, and get 1.9
million working families — half the number of lowerincome families who are financially unstable — on the
road to economic independence.
Promote healthy lives, and increase by one-third the
number of youth and adults who are healthy and
avoid risky behaviors.

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UNICEF is mandated
by the United Nations
General Assembly to
advocate for the
protection of
children's rights, to
help meet their basic
needs and to expand
their opportunities to
reach their full
potential around the
world.

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Advocate for the best start to a child’s life.
Promote girls’ education-even if it’s just
primary education.
Help fight childhood diseases with vaccines.
Prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS.
UNICEF upholds the Convention on the Rights
of the Child.

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Stand for Children believes ALL children
deserve an equal opportunity to succeed in life.
Educate and empower parents, teachers, and
community members to demand excellent
schools.
Advocate for effective local, state and national
education policies and investments.
Ensure the policies and funding we advocate
for reach classrooms and help students.

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Values—
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Results for all children – being able to create solutions for
problems facing children in education today
Bold independence - They are able to tackle the difficult
questions for the good of the children. SFC is able to do this
because it’s their priority to get better results for each child.
Empowerment -Making sure each parent, educator, volunteer
sees the power they have in themselves to make the changes
that are seen and needed.
Diversity- They make sure that the people who are affected by
the decisions being made have a seat at the table and the
advocacy skills to make their voice heard.
Being the change we seek- STC thinks that society is better off
when the people affected by laws have a role in shaping them.
Direct and respectful communication- They make sure that
every issue is talked about in a very common sense way.
Honesty, transparency, and respect is what they believe in.