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This toolkit offers tried-and-true advocacy strategies and real-world tips to help members of the National Collaborative for Infants & Toddlers (NCIT) advance an impactful policy agenda.
While these strategies can be useful at any point in a legislative cycle, they are especially effective after an election because supporters remain energized and lawmakers are motivated to take action.
This toolkit shares strategies on scenario planning, post-election communications, preparing for new elections and building legislative target lists, engaging volunteers year-round, and asking smart questions of lawmakers.
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The House budget resolution recently passed that may necessitate massive cuts to critical federal programs, with significant implications for prenatal to three (PN-3) programs, including placing Medicaid, SNAP and WIC at stake!
The bottom line: It’s important that your lawmakers hear from you and your constituents and work to protect the well-being of infants, toddlers, and families through these vital programs.
Action Needed: You leave messages all the time. This one could protect our most vulnerable. Use our easy system to call your members of Congress and leave a message to protect these vital programs. We do the hard work. We even dial the numbers and give you talking points.
NCIT.org is here to support you in taking action to help all babies and toddlers thrive. Click on advocate, media or policy maker and be taken to areas of the site made just for you! Need something else? Send us an email!
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It’s only when people like you share their voice can we pass the policies we need at the local, state, tribal and federal level. We can help you learn the issues, how to be an advocate and then take simple, effective actions to support good policies that help every child and family thrive.
Learn MoreNCIT is committed to advancing the most effective and promising policy solutions and we want to help policy makers with what they need to get these policies passed in their jurisdictions. Education on issues, white papers, access to experts, sample policies. We are here to support you from concept to passage and through implementation.
Learn MoreThe media is key to raising awareness and building support for those policies most critical to raising healthy, happy babies and toddlers. NCIT is here to support print, broadcasting and digital journalists with the info they need to develop and deliver compelling stories on the policies and programs needed to support every baby and toddler and their families. We can help with research, sources, data and copy.
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The National Collaborative for Infants & Toddlers is bringing together organizations and individuals across the US who want to improve the health and well-being of infants, toddlers, their families, and caregivers. Using policy advocacy as its tool, the NCIT and its members support federal state, local, and tribal efforts to pass effective policies and to maximize public investments in PN-3 systems.
