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Early Childhood Development
SojoAction: Early Childhood Development
Optimal development is every child’s right! Black and brown children’s potential is often and disproportionately sabotaged by systemic racism, harmful policies, discrimination, and violence. Sojourners is embarking on an exciting opportunity to build early-childhood development champions by partnering with churches and lay leaders to protect and promote the health of children and primary caregivers in key stages of life.
Ours is a two-generation approach focused on parents and very young children to ensure optimal development in the first 1,000 days of a child’s life and through all subsequent stages of their life cycle. Our strategy includes a participatory action research project where we will be working with local congregations on unearthing theological frameworks, practical needs that support children in their community, and ways that faith-based advocacy organizations like Sojourners could play a role in lifting up their early childhood development priorities.
Early Childhood Development
Resources
The Flourishing Futures campaign is an invitation to collectively care for children in the earliest stages of their lives by mobilizing people of faith into action.
This guide is designed to help pastors, faith leaders, and clergy evaluate how their current ministries prioritize the well-being of our youngest members (children aged 0-3) and to suppport them as they take the initial steps to build a foundation of early childhood development support in their faith community.
This resource is a collection of tips, articles, books, prayers, and scripture to begin the journey of processing global events, conflict, and crisis with children in your life in developmentally appropriate ways.
Join us for the first in a series of webinars addressing early childhood development and faith from a social justice lens, for and with clergy and faith leaders united for the collective flourishing of young children!
Join SojoAction and the National Women's Law Center for a webinar on the "Child Care Cliff". Learn more about how 3.2 million children and families could lose access to child care and how we can urge our lawmakers to take action now!
Sign this action alert to tell congress to approve critical emergency funding for child care and WIC!
Black Maternal Health Momnibus Act will give better access to health clinics and protect mothers and babies.
Watch this webinar to learn more about Black Maternal Health!
Early Childhood Development
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