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August 12, 2024

Our Child Care 101 Blog Series focuses on informing and educating voters who want to support child care What designates an area as a child care desert, what even is a child care desert? According to our friends at the Center for American Progress, a child care desert is “any census tract with more...

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S. Nadia Hussain

Parenting & Families Social & Emotional Development

July 19, 2024

By Jodi Grant and Delaney Ruston The calls to protect our kids from the harms caused by social media are intensifying. The Surgeon General issued an unprecedented call to put warning labels on social media platforms. Los Angeles’s Unified school District, the second largest school district in the...

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Jodi Grant

Pride Month

Parenting & Families

June 30, 2024

The following is a pile of books that came recommended, won awards, or are books I've heard about for years, all written for Spanish speakers and about the LGBTQ experience. In Las Aventuras de China Iron, author Gabriela Cabezon Camara rewrites Martín Fierro from a feminist, LGBTQ, and postcolonial perspective. China Iron travels across Argentina by covered wagon, learning about the cultures, languages, and environment along the way.

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Desirée Peterson

Parenting & Families Social & Emotional Development

June 30, 2024

Este grupo de libros me han sido recomendados, han ganado premios o tengo años escuchando de ellos, todos escritos por personas que hablan español sobre la experiencia LGBTQ. Pride Spanish Books Square 2.jpg En la casa de los sueños (In the Dream House) por Carmen Maria Machado nos habla de una...

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Desirée Peterson

Childcare & Early Education MomsVote Parenting & Families Social & Emotional Development

June 27, 2024

As important and fundamental as voting is, it can feel kind of, well, dry, especially when we try to teach the young ones in our lives about this important civic duty. The good news is we have a chance to put the FUN back in this FUNdamental act of democracy by educating the future voters in our...

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S. Nadia Hussain

Pride Month

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Parenting & Families

June 25, 2024

As a Granite State mom, I’m heartbroken and outraged that we’ve been working to defeat yet another sports ban in our state this year. HB 1205 – which seeks to ban transgender girls from participating in girls' sports from grades 5 through 12 – goes against everything we should stand for, especially...

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Amanda Morehouse

Pride Month

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Parenting & Families

June 25, 2024

Trans women and girls belong at the very heart of the gender justice and women’s rights movement. As a women’s rights advocate, I am all in for fighting for trans and non-binary people to be able to thrive, exist in peace, and experience the rights we all should get to enjoy, including in sports...

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Shiwali Patel

Gun Safety Maternal Justice MomsRising Parenting & Families Social & Emotional Development

June 25, 2024

Are you an artist or creative? Do you have ideas on what our communities need to thrive and build a sense of safety and belonging? If so, we invite you to join the MomsRising coloring/drawing for a community safety challenge! MomsRising has been working at the local, state, and federal levels to...

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Kelsey Reyes

Pride Month

Parenting & Families

June 20, 2024

House in the Cerulean Sea House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune is an absolute gem of a novel! Linus Baker works as a type of social worker who examines orphanages for magical youth. When he is given a unique assignment that challenges his internal biases, he finds himself outgrowing the world he...

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Desirée Peterson

Pride Month

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Parenting & Families

June 18, 2024

I'm an adolescent mental health provider, and I’d like to share an exercise with you. If you’re cisgender and heterosexual, take a moment and see if you can imagine the idea of being gay in your mind. If you’re cisgender and gay, see if you can imagine the idea of being straight in your mind. Could you do it?

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