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Educating and mobilizing parents and caregivers across the nation around healthy kids and communities. Our work focuses on healthy schools and public spaces, marketing to kids, healthy drinks, dismantling the school to prison pipeline; amplifying resilience and decreasing trauma with social-emotional development practices in grades K-12.

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MomsRising Social & Emotional Development

Mobilize with MomsRising for National Juvenile Justice Month!

10/04/21
Every year the “school-to-prison pipeline,” a disturbing national trend where children are funneled out of public schools and into the juvenile and criminal justice systems, continues to deny too many kids the opportunity to grow, learn, make mistakes, and still reach their full potential.
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Beatriz Beckford
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ICYMI: A Message From Grandma in Florida

09/17/21
At MomsRising, we share stories to make change, to show lawmakers the real impacts of laws and policies. A push. And we share stories in solidarity with other women, moms and family members, so that we can feel less alone in our struggles. A release. The content that caught our eye this week features stories that push AND release. Scroll down and witness them, too.
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Kerri Karvetski
Childcare & Early Education Health Care Paid Family Leave

Top #5Actions for Friday, September 17, 2021: Back-to-School Edition

09/14/21
This year, the back-to-school season is filled with emotions as we navigate rising numbers in COVID-19 cases, changing class schedules and the never-ending discussions around mask mandates. Check out these actions to help you navigate your way through this very different school year.
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Sili Recio
Health Care Social & Emotional Development

Regreso a la escuela, estresada y agotada. ¿Cómo te sientes en esta pandemia?

09/10/21
Mientras examinaba el tablero de COVID de mi condado, casi 2 semanas después del año escolar, pensé que estábamos esquivando la bala. No hay casos de COVID en la escuela de mi hija. Dejé escapar un suspiro de alivio. Y luego, una llamada, dos llamadas, una llamada de que era alguien de una de sus...
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Sili Recio
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Health Care Politics & Policy

Quick signature: Tell Governors to stop playing COVID politics with our kids’ health!

09/03/21
Tell governors you are outraged, and to stop playing politics with our kids’ health by banning local school officials from taking reasonable public health measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19!
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Felicia Burnett
Health Care

COVID Vaccines and Getting Back-to-School

08/20/21
MomsRising recently hosted a conversation with Candice W. Jones, MD FAAP, a fellow at the American Academy of Pediatrics, to talk about COVID-19, vaccines, masks, and getting back to school. Below is a summary of our questions and answers.
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Quick signature: Tell President Biden you support his actions to protect schoolchildren from COVID-19

<a href="https://action.momsrising.org/cms/view_by_page_id/19458/?source=action">Quick signature: Tell President Biden you support his actions to protect schoolchildren from COVID-19</a>

Show your support for following public safety guidelines to keep kids safely in school.

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Tell President Biden you support his actions to protect schoolchildren from COVID-19

SIGN our letter to tell Congress to reduce childhood hunger NOW!

<a href="https://action.momsrising.org/cms/view_by_page_id/18527/?source=action">SIGN our letter to tell Congress to reduce childhood hunger NOW!</a>
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SIGN OUR LETTER calling on Congress to address childhood hunger in a meaningful way by taking swift action on the Child Nutrition Act!

Quick signature: Tell Governors to stop playing COVID politics with our kids’ health!

<a href="https://action.momsrising.org/cms/view_by_page_id/19649/?source=action">Quick signature: Tell Governors to stop playing COVID politics with our kids’ health!</a>

We are worried about our children’s education and we are outraged by governors playing COVID politics with our children’s health!

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Tell Governors to Stop Playing COVID Politics with Our Kids’ Health!

Demand Justice for Adam Toledo and his family!

<a href="https://action.momsrising.org/cms/view_by_page_id/16781/?source=action">Demand Justice for Adam Toledo and his family!</a>

We, and especially our elected leaders, must immediately invest in communities and shift resources away from policing, where a deadly mix of white supremacy and violence remains unchecked.

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Join us in demanding justice for Adam Toledo and ending police violence.

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