Sharing Web Sources

The website I chose to connect with their newsletter was the Children's Defense Fund.
"A strong effective, independent voice for all children of America" 

(Newsletter: http://www.childrensdefense.org/newsroom/enewsletters/


This organization grew out of the Civil Rights Movement under the direction of Marian Wright Edelman, who was the first black woman admitted to the Mississippi Bar, she worked under Dr. Martin Luther King as a counsel for the Poor People's Campaign. She began the Washington Research Project in 1969, which was a public interest law firm who monitored federal programs for low-income families, through his initiative the Children's Defense Fund was created.

Improving policies and programs for children is what the Children's Defense Fund has challenged the United States to undertake. They have grown to be recognized for their careful research on children's survival, protection, and development in all racial and income groups and for independent analysis of how federal and state policies affect children, their families and their communities.

One thing that stood out to me was their policy and priorities section which explained that the priorities for elected officials is to ensure every child's future should include:

* Ending child poverty

*Guarantee every child and pregnant woman comprehensive health and mental health     coverage and service

*Protect every child from abuse neglect and connect them to caring permanent families

*Provide high quality early childhood care and development programs for all children

*Ensure every child can read at grade level by fourth grade and guarantee quality education through high school graduation

*Stop the criminalization of children at increasingly younger ages and invest