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What Is Kids Are Priority One?
Kids Are Priority One is a statewide coalition of organizations, businesses and individuals who are committed to ensuring that Vermont's children get the best possible start.
By means of constant public education, tireless grassroots organizing, skillful advocacy and ongoing leadership development activities, Kids Are Priority One is working to:
- Empower people to speak out on behalf of children;
- Strengthen policies that make our early childhood system work better for children and families;
- Ensure that key decision-makers make children's health, care, and education a top priority.
What Do We Want To Accomplish?
To ensure that Vermont's children are healthy, nurtured and ready for success in school and life, we need to:
- Build a sound infrastructure that meets early childhood needs
- Improve the quality of early care and education programs
- Make early childhood resources affordable for all families
- Increase the availability of early care and education programs
- Share costs of children's health, care and education costs more equitably among parents, government, and the private sector
- Collect and report accurate information to help better anticipate future care, health and education needs of Vermont's children
What Can You Do To Help?
- Endorse Kids Are Priority One. When you add your name to the list of supporters, you help us show policy-makers that Vermonters want to invest in early childhood programs that work.
- Stay Informed. Through our e-network, our email alerts let you know about important developments that affect children and critical opportunities to speak out. Endorsers are automatically added to the e-network.
- Lend A Hand. Our local teams of volunteers are made up of citizens from all walks of life who are concerned about the quality of our children's health, care and education.
- Make a donation. We depend on your support! Your tax-deductible donation helps us get the word out to the community and policy-makers.