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Gubernatorial elections create a key moment to elevate the opportunities and challenges facing infants, toddlers, and families. Governors shape state priorities, budgets, and policies that affect young children and the systems that support them.
This toolkit helps organizations engage strategically during the campaign cycle while staying within the boundaries of nonpartisan, 501(c)(3) issue-focused advocacy. While this toolkit focuses specifically on gubernatorial elections, the same principles apply to elections at every level of government — from city council to President.
Babies are born with amazing capabilities. The early years of life, when brains and bodies grow rapidly, are the foundation for lifelong wellbeing and opportunity. Parents and caregivers must have access to what they need to raise healthy babies and toddlers—who grow into socially, emotionally, and physically healthy children ready for school and life.
Families shouldn’t have to go it alone. We know what works: Now, we need a broader coalition of support to advance PN-3 policies and funding.
This guide offers research-informed messaging and communications strategies that equip prenatal-to-three (PN-3) advocates to elevate the importance of early childhood issues and increase support among policy leaders.
Use these messages and strategies in legislative conversations, hearings, and testimony, policy briefings, and written materials such as one‑pagers, talking points, and public‑facing communications.
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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.
