AZECA’s Full Partnership Meeting and the Rollout of the New Membership Model
The Arizona Early Childhood Alliance (AZECA) will hold a full partnership meeting on August 29th, 2022 to discuss the roll out of the new membership model and updated website. AZECA is an alliance of 50+ cross-sector partners statewide who are working together to give every Arizona child a great…
Save Our Schools Arizona Petition Drive
Save Our Schools Arizona is running a statewide referendum to stop the universal voucher expansion passed by the legislature and signed by the Governor earlier this summer. This expansion will strip Arizona public schools of hundreds of millions of dollars a year. This means our taxpayer funds will be…
2022 KidsCount Data Show AZ Children are in Crisis
Children in the United States are experiencing anxiety and depression at alarming rates, per the newly released 2022 KIDS COUNT® Data Book, a 50-state report of recent household data released today by the Annie E. Casey Foundation. In the year before the COVID-19 pandemic, 9% of U.S. high school…
Happy Birthday to the Children’s Health Insurance Program!
Today marks a special anniversary: the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) is 25 years old. The program, known as “KidsCare” in Arizona, has established itself as a critical federal-state partnership to meet children’s health care needs. Arizona hasn’t always embraced the program….
RESILIENCE Through the Eyes of a Child, Tuesday, October 25
Thank you to all our sponsors and attendees for their support of our mission! Children’s Action Alliance is proud to honor amazing community members and elected officials who support children and families. 2022 HONOREES Horace Steele Child Advocacy Award Honoree SHAWN PEARSON, Founder of Zion Institute…
FAAZ is looking for youth to join its Young Adult Leadership Board
Request Information Form Here Fostering Advocates Arizona (FAAZ) is seeking new members for its Young Adult Leadership Board! FAAZ is a community of young leaders with lived experience in foster care who connect other young adults leaving care with the information, resources, and support they need to…
THIS WEEKEND: Help Save Our Schools Stop Voucher Expansion
As the 2022 Legislative session ended, lawmakers passed a massive expansion of Empowerment Scholarship Accounts (ESA Vouchers). ESA Vouchers take funds that would have gone to public schools and gives parents who opt out of those schools a debit card that can be used to pay for educational expenses including…
Save Home Visiting
The early childhood community celebrates a huge win in the Arizona state budget! The final version of the budget invests $10 million dollars to fill the funding gap and expand the Healthy Families Arizona (HFAz) home visiting program. HFAz is designed to help expectant and new parents get their children…
Abortion is More Than Health Care
Children’s Action Alliance envisions an Arizona where all children and families can thrive. We cannot stay silent about today’s decision by the Supreme Court of the United States to overturn Roe v. Wade. Today’s decision will not stop abortion in our state – not for those with resources. But…