Strategy 5: Create a team of advocates to champion early childhood and 1 more... less...
Lead Strategies: 3, 4, 5
Better Off: # of parents and caregivers trained in advocacy related topics.
Definition
Description
Provide targeted outreach, engagement and training to Detroit parents and caregivers especially the harder to reach subset
Story Behind the Curve
It is time for us to reimagine a world where all children have access to high quality affordable early childhood education. Unfortunately, globally and nationally there is a learning crisis which we are facing due to the failure of long-term investment in early childhood education.
In the city of Detroit, Hope Starts Here has established partnerships citywide to ensure all children and their families thrive… Detroit Champions for Hope (Imperative 2) advocates for systems change to best support parents/caregivers as children’s first teachers and champions.
Lessons Learned
Training parents and caregivers to understand basic Civics is an important first step for advocacy to have the impact needed to change policies.
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