Social Justice for Young Children Archives

To Abolish Poverty, We Need a Fully Funded, 21^st-Century Child Care System

The other day as I was scrolling, I came across an Instagram post of a man attempting to go about his day without using anything that was invented by women.

5 Ways to Successfully Advocate and Organize for Children, Their Families, and Caregivers

Forty advocates and organizers gathered in Washington, DC, recently to discuss lessons from the unprecedented yet temporary pandemic-era success in reducing child poverty and more.

Build Power Among Mothers of Color to Get Policies That Work for All Mothers

Everyone wants infants of color to be healthy and prosper.

Upgrade the Jobs, Not the Workers, for Sustainable Child Care

“It takes a village.” We’ve all heard it, we’ve all said it, and it’s true.

Working Across Silos and in Community to Support Children of Immigrants

“At the end of the day, we do it for our children.

Justice for Young Children: (Re)Considering the Role of the Research Community

A vast body of research shows that children of Color withstand harm in schools via policies and practices specifically designed to protect White interests.

3 Ways Funders Can Facilitate Systems Change

Put yourself in the shoes of a student who speaks another language — an American-born child of immigrants in Los Angeles, an “unaccompanied minor” who recently arrived in Phoenix, a child of refugees in a rural town in Maine.

Use What We’ve Learned to End Child Poverty

Child poverty more than doubled from 2021 to 2022, children and their parents are now losing health care coverage, and child care programs across the country are at heightened risk of closure — all because successful pandemic-era policies have ended or are ending.

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