Get Involved!

The children, families, and other early childhood professionals we work with all need your help! In addition to the fine professional services we provide, we all need to:

• Raise consciousness in the general public and with the powers that be about:
  • The importance of early brain development,
  • How children grow and learn based on what we and others in their lives do with and around them,
  • How young children build the foundation for a lifetime through happy interactions with caring, understanding, and responsive early educators, with encouragement and support for the child to explore and learn through play and other developmentally appropriate activities, and
  • How high quality early learning environments can make dramatic improvements in young children's abilities to learn and grow, producing successes for a lifetime and huge public savings in the prevention of social problems.
• Keep up to date on developments in the public policies affecting young children; and
• Add our voices to influence the development of those policies to benefit the children and families whom we serve, as well as the members of our profession.

You can get important help in all three of these areas if you join in the two electronic list serves below. Both provide timely information about public policy activities in early childhood, as well as alerts whenever your voice can make an important difference in policy development.

• NAEYC’s Children’s Champions sends you news of developments in Washington, DC and around the country of interest to early childhood professionals. Let us know how you can get involved!
• Maryland AEYC’s public policy list serve does the same for Maryland, less frequently than NAEYC does for the country. Email us to request the addition of your e-mail address to the address list for these Maryland notices.

Contact us if you’d like to comment or inquire about any public policy issue about young children in Maryland.

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