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Illinois Early Childhood Advocacy Week, Day 1: Investing in the Early Years is Essential

#EarlyEdIsEssential

Welcome to Day 1 of Illinois Early Childhood Advocacy Week 2021! Today’s focus is: Investing in the early years is essential.


Investing in early care and learning is essential to closing the opportunity gap and providing Illinois’s youngest learners with high-quality opportunities for healthy development. We put the learning and development of Illinois children at risk when we don’t adequately fund early care and learning programs to meet the ongoing need and cost of high-quality services.


Join us and your fellow parents, caregivers, early childhood providers and other advocates in asking your legislators to increase investment in critical services and supports, including the Early Childhood Block Grant, Child Care Assistance Program and Early Intervention and home visiting services.



See below and
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Start Early’s Early Childhood Advocacy Week HQ to learn more about how you can tell your legislators that #EarlyEdIsEssential. Follow
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@EarlyEdIL on Twitter for real-time Illinois policy updates from Start Early.

How to Take Action
LEARN: Learn more about why investing in high-quality early learning and care is essential in
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today’s blog from Jonathan Doster, Director, Legislative Affairs of Illinois Policy.

WRITE:
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Contact your legislators and ask them to make early learning and care a priority in the Illinois state budget.

SHARE: Amplify the message that #EarlyEdIsEssential. Check out the
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Investing in the early years is essential section of our Advocacy Week social media toolkit for ready to share images and posts.

DIALOGUE:Is your community group interested in hosting a dialogue with your state legislators about the importance of early learning and care? Contact us at
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[email protected] to learn more about our legislator dialogue sessions.


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