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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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Childcare & Early Education Families & The Federal Budget Health Care

Top #5Actions of the Past Week: Friday, December 4, 2020

12/04/20
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to be an urgent crisis, yet many of the protections passed earlier this year are set to expire at the end of the month. We are calling on the U.S. Senate to immediately pass a relief package now that will benefit everyone in our nation. We also must urge Congress to...
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Sue Anne Reed
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Moms Are Parenting the Workforce!?

10/29/20
In her latest blog post, Capacity Building Manager Marianne Bullock reflects on a new, precarious reality. "It's not that women are falling off the cliff," she shares, "but that we are being pushed off and out of the workforce by a lack of policies that support the on-the-ground reality of the burden of care for our children's wellbeing."
Marianne Bullock
Politics & Policy

It was a small dresser. And it killed him.

09/16/20
Camden Ellis’s second birthday was just days away. To celebrate, his mother Crystal got him a big-boy bed so he could get up in the mornings and dress himself. After all, Camden had just become a big brother to baby sister Caitlynn, and wanted to show his parents he was responsible. But Camden...
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Childcare & Early Education Politics & Policy

Work-Life Balance AND Homeschooling Your Children? It’s Possible!

08/06/20
In 2019, after an extremely distressing school year filled with my son’s academic needs not being met, bullying against him by other students, and constant fear and stress on my part, I decided I was going to take my son’s education into my own hands and homeschool him. This would be in conjunction...
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Issa Mas
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Maternal Justice Politics & Policy Social & Emotional Development

Tell Governors and Mayors to Invest in Student Supports --NOT Police in Schools

07/01/20
We are living in extraordinary times. Nationwide mobilizations in the aftermath of too many police killings have renewed an important conversation about police accountability and the role police play in our lives. Even further this conversation has called into question the role police play in the...
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Maternal Justice

Rising for Black Lives and LGBTQ+ Rights: Your June MOMentum

06/30/20
From Juneteenth to Pride, this June has been marked by nonstop actions for justice by the MomsRising movement. From marching to calling to texting to letter signing, we have been raising our voices in our communities to call for justice and the end to police violence, to advance voter engagement,...
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Help Us Make Healthy Food for Little Learners a Home Run!

<a href="https://action.momsrising.org/cms/view_by_page_id/7611/?source=action">Help Us Make Healthy Food for Little Learners a Home Run! </a>

Big news for our littlest learners! Healthy updates to meals and snacks offered in child and adult care centers will go into effect this fall. Help us hit this one out of the park -> send a message of support to providers working hard to make the new updates a big success!

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Help us make healthy food for our littlest learners a home run!

Stop the Trump Administration from Legalizing Discrimination!

<a href="https://action.momsrising.org/cms/view_by_page_id/12412/?source=action">Stop the Trump Administration from Legalizing Discrimination!</a>

The Trump Administration's Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) released a proposed rule that would make it legal for HHS-funded agencies and programs to discriminate against women, religious minorities, nonreligious people, and LGBTQ+ people. SIGN to oppose!

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QUICK SIGNATURE: NO taxpayer dollars for Trump's discrimination proposal!

Take Action: Tell Google to adopt the Kids’ App Store Standards now!

<a href="https://action.momsrising.org/cms/view_by_page_id/9209/?source=action">Take Action: Tell Google to adopt the Kids’ App Store Standards now!</a>

Parents should be able to trust that anything recommended “for children” is actually safe for children. By adopting CCFC’s Kids’ App Store Standards – simple rules that require a human review of each app and ban in-app purchases, unfair advertising, and illegal data collection – Google can make parents’ lives easier, and kids’ experiences safer.

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Tell Google to put kids privacy before profits!

Tell your U.S. Representative: Hands off SNAP!

<a href="https://action.momsrising.org/cms/view_by_page_id/7332/?source=action">Tell your U.S. Representative: Hands off SNAP!</a>

ALL HANDS ON DECK: We need you to deliver a letter to your U.S. Representative's local office NOW to protect SNAP! Sign up here and we'll send you everything you need.

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Tell your U.S. Representative: Hands off SNAP!

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