Long-time Ounce employee Nick Wechsler honored with Home Visiting Leadership Award



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30 years of dedicated service
The Ounce’s Nick Wechsler honored with Home Visiting Leadership Award

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We are proud to share that long-time Ounce employee Nick Wechsler, director for program development, was the recipient of the Home Visiting Leadership Award presented at the Annual Prevent Child Abuse Illinois Statewide Conference. Nick has spent 30 years championing home visiting work as a key to the success of early childhood education and has been instrumental in expanding access and quality of home visiting in Illinois.

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Read more about Nick’s contributions to the field and his commitment to strengthening families through the parent-child relationship.







How will you score?
Quiz: Do you know what is taught in a pre-K classroom?

High-quality early childhood education is essential for getting children ready for kindergarten and for long-term success in school and life. But what and how are children taught during their early learning experience?

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Take this short quiz to see if you can tell what skills kids are learning from activities in a pre-K classroom.






Stay updated on what's happening at the Ounce
2019 legislative reports
All you need to know about policy changes across the US

The Ounce's policy work is deeply rooted in our home state of Illinois, where we seek to shape and strengthen the state’s early childhood system through legislative, administrative and grassroots advocacy. Our Illinois Policy Team works diligently to ensure that the state’s major funding streams, legislation, and federal and state initiatives prioritize early childhood programs. Legislation led by the Ounce and its advocacy partners this year can be found in the
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2019 Illinois Legislative Summary .


In addition to our work in Illinois, our National Policy Team builds on lessons learned in Illinois and other states to provide consultation to early childhood advocates and other state and local systems leaders across the country.
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The State Policy Update Report provides a snapshot of policy changes across the country, demonstrating the breadth of the work done by state early childhood leaders and advocates throughout the U.S. this past legislative session.


Part 2: Why intervene early?
How developmental science influences our research

In this piece, our research team sheds light on evidence from developmental science that demonstrates the power and potential of early childhood interventions and how we use this knowledge to advance early education for children and families.


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You'll want to hear what this teacher has to say
A passion for helping children learn, play and discover

Offering the highest quality early childhood education is not possible without the passion of amazing teachers who ensure our earliest learners get the best start in school and life. Working in early education for 13 years, Annaliese Newmeyer is a teacher at Educare Chicago, the Ounce’s birth-to-five school, who has dedicated her life to helping her students learn, play and discover the world around them.


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we sat down with Annaliese to discuss how being an educator has impacted her life and why she is passionate about working with communities most in need.






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We can't do this without you
Something exciting is on the way

It's a little under two weeks until Giving Tuesday and this year we are doing things a little different. Tune in on Monday, Dec. 2 for a special announcement about how you can help provide children with meaningful early learning experiences that will prepare them for kindergarten and beyond.




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The Ounce of Prevention Fund gives children in poverty the best chance for success in school and in life by advocating for and providing the highest-quality care and education from birth to age five.

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