DISCUSSION & ACTIVITY GUIDE

Everything you need to plan and host a successful screening with an engaged and informed audience.

BECOME A PARTNER

Before our broadcast, we will be making the film available for select impact and community screenings. Would you like to partner on our impact and engagement campaign?

RESOURCES

Listen to a great podcast covering America’s childcare crisis: No One is Coming to Save Us

Learn why advocacy at the federal level matters – See how additional federal funding would affect each state across the U.S.

The National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) promotes high-quality early learning for each and every child, birth through age 8, by connecting practice, policy, and research. 

Child Care Aware® of America (CCAoA) works with a national network of more than 500 child care resource and referral (CCR&Rs) agencies and other partners to ensure that all families have access to quality, affordable child care. CCAoA leads projects that increase the quality and availability of child care, conducts research, and advocates for child care policies that positively impact the lives of children and families. 

Community Change’s Report Card is a great resource for parents and early educators to see how their congressmember and senators stand on child care bills and then an easy take action tool. Community Change also produces annual “Day Without Child Care” action  to demand more support for early educators and families

The Alliance for Early Success works on state policies, and offers an interactive map that links to helpful information and advocacy organizations within each state in the U.S..

Zero to Three offers a helpful toolkit that includes a fact sheet, talking points for engaging community members and policy makers, easy to share graphics, and instructions on writing an Op-Ed as an advocacy tool. 

National Association for Family Child Care offers a toolkit for family child care (home-based) providers that offers a one-pager on the issue in English and Spanish, templates for individual programs, fact sheets, a federal advocacy toolkit, social media toolkit and guide to hosting a site visit. 

Power to the Profession: Learn about a collaboration with national stakeholders to develop a unified system of accreditation, training and compensation for early childhood educators across the country.

WeVision EarlyEd; What does an ideal early care and education system that works for both families and early educators look like? The Bainum Foundation’s bold WeVision initiative is designing one.

Elliot Haspel: Nationally-recognized child & family policy expert and commentator Elliot Haspel’s articles are always provocative and solutions-oriented. His forthcoming book will mention MAKE A CIRCLE!

Listen to a great podcast covering America’s childcare crisis: No One is Coming to Save Us

Learn why advocacy at the federal level matters – See how additional federal funding would affect each state across the U.S.

The National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) promotes high-quality early learning for each and every child, birth through age 8, by connecting practice, policy, and research.

Community Change’s Report Card is a great resource for parents and early educators to see how their congressmember and senators stand on child care bills and then an easy take action tool. Community Change also produces annual “Day Without Child Care” action  to demand more support for early educators and families.

The Alliance for Early Success works on state policies, and offers an interactive map that links to helpful information and advocacy organizations within each state in the U.S..

Zero to Three offers a helpful toolkit that includes a fact sheet, talking points for engaging community members and policy makers, easy to share graphics, and instructions on writing an Op-Ed as an advocacy tool. 

Moms First is an organization that is transforming our workplaces, our communities, and our culture to enable moms to thrive.

Parent Voices, through grassroots organizing and leadership development, activates and centers the wisdom of parents to transform child care and ensure all systems that impact our families are just, fair, and inclusive.

WeVision EarlyEd; What does an ideal early care and education system that works for both families and early educators look like? The Bainum Foundation’s bold WeVision initiative is designing one.

Elliot Haspel: Nationally-recognized child & family policy expert and commentator Elliot Haspel’s articles are always provocative and solutions-oriented. His forthcoming book will mention MAKE A CIRCLE!

Listen to a great podcast covering America’s childcare crisis: No One is Coming to Save Us

Learn why advocacy at the federal level matters – See how additional federal funding would affect each state across the U.S.

The National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) promotes high-quality early learning for each and every child, birth through age 8, by connecting practice, policy, and research.

Community Change’s Report Card is a great resource for parents and early educators to see how their congressmember and senators stand on child care bills and then an easy take action tool. Community Change also produces annual “Day Without Child Care” action  to demand more support for early educators and families

The Alliance for Early Success works on state policies, and offers an interactive map that links to helpful information and advocacy organizations within each state in the U.S..

Zero to Three offers a helpful toolkit that includes a fact sheet, talking points for engaging community members and policy makers, easy to share graphics, and instructions on writing an Op-Ed as an advocacy tool.

WeVision EarlyEd; What does an ideal early care and education system that works for both families and early educators look like? The Bainum Foundation’s bold WeVision initiative is designing one.

Elliot Haspel: Nationally-recognized child & family policy expert and commentator Elliot Haspel’s articles are always provocative and solutions-oriented. His forthcoming book will mention MAKE A CIRCLE!