ZeroToThree's Birth to Three State Advocacy

Creating Connections for Babies seeks to engage infant-toddler professionals, policymakers and policy shapers (e.g., professional advocates, philanthropists, business leaders, etc.) in policy change for infants, toddlers and their families in six states: Kentucky, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Virginia and Wyoming. Through this project, the ZERO TO THREE Policy Center will foster new leadership in the state policy arena by working with one or two infant-toddler professionals in each of the six states who will serve as Birth to Three State Advocacy Leaders. ZERO TO THREE will assist the Birth to Three State Advocacy Leaders and a public-private partnership in that state in establishing coordinated, comprehensive services and policies focused on 0 to 3 year olds or ensuring their inclusion in a broader system-building effort. The Birth to Three State Advocacy Leaders will receive advocacy training and technical assistance from ZERO TO THREE, which will help them as they immediately play a role in their state's infant-toddler policy work, recruit new members for the ZERO TO THREE Policy Network, and help connect those members to public policy activities in the state. The timeline for this project is January through August 2008.

{source: TheBabyMonitor of ZERO to THREE}