Illinois Early Childhood Advocacy Week, Day 5: Family Economic Supports are Essential
#EarlyEdIsEssential
Welcome back to Day 5 of Illinois Early Childhood Advocacy Week. Today, we’re focusing on the importance of economic supports to child and family outcomes.
Did you know that in 2019:
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67% of Illinois SNAP participants were in families with children?
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15.7% of Illinois children lived below the federal poverty line?
Family economic supports are deeply connected to child and family outcomes. Increased funding for and coordination between early care and learning and family economic supports is key to child and family success. We urge legislators to fund programs that promote the success and center the experiences of families living in poverty.
Check out today’s actions below to learn how you can amplify the message that early learning and care and family economic supports are essential to children and families across Illinois.
How to Take Action
LEARN: Learn more about how family economic supports affect child and family outcomes in today’s blog from Start Early Policy Specialist Asia Canady.
WRITE: 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 Day 5: Family economic supports are 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 [email protected] to learn more about our legislator dialogue sessions.
Visit Start Early’s Early Childhood Advocacy Week HQ to learn more about how you can tell your legislators that #EarlyEdIsEssential. Follow @EarlyEdIL on Twitter for real-time Illinois policy updates from Start Early.
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