November-December

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Money Matters: Community programs boost families’ incomes

Community-based organizations, such as family support and child development programs, can promote families’ economic success with strategies like these

Children's Advocates Roundtable

  • The new state budget: what finally happened?
  • 2008 legislative highlights
  • Together for California's Future
  • Early care and education: Building unity
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Hard Times

Stories of other children’s experiences provide examples of ways to cope with economic pressures

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The California Child Development CORPS

Riverside conference gets the word out about the Corps

Early childhood teachers and providers organizing and advocating for better pay, benefits, job conditions, and professional respect.

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Hot topics

Its not good to grow up too early

Parents are taking action—in their homes and in the community—to protect girls from developing too soon

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Hot topics

New country, new child care system

Immigrant child care providers—and even many who were born here—sometimes find the system confusing

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Raising kids

I want that!

Parents offer tips for talking with kids about advertising

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Money Matters: Money matters for child development

Raising families’ income is a key strategy for improving the lives—and life chances—of young children

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