About the Children's Advocate

The Children's Advocate is a bilingual, bimonthly newsmagazine. Since 1973, the publication has covered issues affecting children and families in California. Over 50,000 children's service providers, advocates, community leaders, policy-makers, and parents read the Children's Advocate.

A typical 32-page issue includes articles in English and Spanish on grassroots activism, trends and policy issues affecting children and families, and tips for parents and early care and education providers.

Click on any category below to read articles from the Children's Advocate:

• Advocacy and Community Building
  
• Books
  
• Child Care and Early Childhood Education
  
• Child Development
  
• Child Welfare
  
• En español
  
• Health
  
• Parent Leadership and Family Support
  
• Schools and School-Age Children
  
• Violence Prevention
  
• Welfare, Family Income, and Poverty
  

Articles are often listed on our website under more than one category. Older articles are not bilingual. Please contact us if you would like a copy of any articles not online or before 1997.

The Children's Advocate has won the Parents' Choice Gold Award, the Educational Press Association Distinguished Achievement Award, the American Bar Association's Gavel Award, and the CAEYC Commitment to Children Press Award.

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Tips for using the Children's Advocate

• Outreach: Give the Children's Advocate to families as a resource.

  Reprint Children's Advocate articles in your print or email newsletter. Credit the article as being "from the July-August 2005 issue" (or whichever issue it is) "of the Children's Advocate, published by Action Alliance for Children"—and be sure to send us a copy.

• Program and staff development: Pass out the Children's Advocate at staff meetings as a basis for discussing program ideas or issues in the field.

• Community education: Use the Children's Advocate as part of parent and provider education, ESL, and support group curriculum. Discuss selected articles.

• Community engagement: Distribute the Children's Advocate to community advisory councils, leadership teams, and other community forums.

• Advocacy: Use Children's Advocate articles and the Roundtable pages to educate policy makers or legislative action teams.

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Children's Advocate online partners

The California Head Start Association uses summaries of selected Children's Advocate articles for their Parent Resources web page.

Children's Development Policy Institute provides links to selected child care articles in their Early Care and Education in the News Email Bulletin.

Connect for Kids includes selected Children's Advocate articles in the resource section of their website.

Trilogy IR includes Children's Advocate articles in the library section of the county-level Network of Care for Kids sites.

Contact us about how you can provide the Children's Advocate on your website!

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Action Alliance
for Children
e-mail aac@4children.org
1201 Martin Luther
King Jr. Way
Oakland, CA 94612
(510) 444-7136