Sacramento Head Start Alumni Association

Ask the Advocate advice column

Feb 11, 2002

Do you have an advocacy challenge that you'd like the CHILDREN'S ADVOCATE
to tackle? Send it to "Ask the Advocate," the CHILDREN'S ADVOCATE'S "advice
column" for advocates. We ask experts, leaders, and seasoned advocates to
address readers' challenges and publish them in future issues of the paper.

Please send your questions or suggestions for "Ask the Advocate" ASAP. It's
a great opportunity to share your struggles and strategies with a statewide
audience of 30,000 readers who are committed to children's advocacy.

Past "Ask the Advocate" columns have addressed:
* Coordinating children's services (coming in March!)
* Advocating for kids in tough times (Jan/Feb 2002 http://www.4children.org/news/102aae.htm
* How to effectively advocate for school change (Nov/Dec 2001) http://www.4children.org/news/1101aae.htm
* Making early childhood a political priority (Sept/Oct 2001)
http://www.4children.org/news/901ask.htm
* Effective rural children's advocacy (July-August 2001)
http://www.4children.org/news/701ask.htm
* Taking charge: how to nurture strong leaders (May-June 2001)
http://www.4children.org/news/501ask.htm
* Bringing new advocacy partners to the table (Mar-Apr 2001)
http://www.4children.org/news/301ask.htm

Thanks to all of you who have e-mailed and called with ideas in the past.

Take care,
Erica
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Erica Williams
Outreach Associate
Action Alliance for Children
1201 Martin Luther King Jr Way
Oakland, CA 94612
ph: (510) 444-7136; fx: (510) 444-7138
email: aac@4children.org; web: www.4children.org
publisher of the award-winning Children's Advocate