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The Vermont Early Childhood Advocacy Alliance is a statewide coalition of early childhood professionals and providers, parents, and employers working together to improve public policies that impact young children from birth to age eight on issues of health, safety, food security, economic security, and early care and education.
2024 Legislative Agenda
The Alliance’s Legislative Agenda is crafted annually in partnership with early childhood organizations that are advancing policy solutions through the legislative process related to health, safety, food security, economic security, and early care and education.
The issues were selected by the Alliance’s 21-member Steering Committee. One or more lead organizations will direct legislative and advocacy strategy on each issue.
More information about the agenda and the lead organizations can be found here.
2023 Legislative Agenda Results
The 2023 legislative session saw a return to fully in-person work, and resulted in a range of outcomes for the state’s early childhood community. Some issues on the Alliance’s Agenda had tremendous (and even historic) successes, while others had disappointing results. See below for more details.
Looking ahead, Alliance members will be hard at work over the summer and fall building support for ongoing campaigns, tracking implementation of programs that have passed, and preparing a full slate of issues for advocacy in ’24.
Many early childhood community members have renewed their personal and professional commitment to antiracism and diversity, equity, and inclusion – and want to engage in sustained learning. To support this, the Vermont Early Childhood Advocacy Alliance and its partners are convening a monthly, salon-style Equity Discussion Group via Zoom. Our next session is coming up on Friday, April 19, at 1:00 pm.
This month’s discussion will focus on the inclusion of Mental Health Literacy in basic health response training and support. The discussion will be led by Sunny Noelle Naughton, the founder of Sunshine Silver Lining, a Mental Health and Communications Consultancy. She was recently named a Champion of Mental Health Literacy from the Mental Health Literacy Collaborative and the Top Mental Health First Aid trainer in Vermont.
You can contact Taylor, Outreach Manager, at taylor@vecaa.org if your organization would like to co-host one of these events, or if you have suggested topics or discussion materials to offer.
More information about past salons including downloadable resources can be found here.
2024 Early Childhood Day at the Legislature
Thank you to all of the attendees and Legislators who joined us in Montpelier for the 30th Annual Early Childhood Day at the Legislature (ECDL)!
The Vermont Early Childhood Advocacy Alliance hosts ECDL to bring together, early childhood professionals, parents, employers, and policymakers in person to:
- Meet with legislators about early childhood issues
- Attend workshops on current topics
- Take action at the State House
- Network and exchange information
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