Liftoff: WNY Early Childhood Funders for Change engaged CGR to study how organizations across Western New York collaborate to improve outcomes for the region’s youngest residents. The observations provide issues and options for Liftoff to consider as it plans its next steps in promoting screenings, quality childcare and transportation for families with young children.
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Early Childhood Collaboration in WNY: Collaborative Efforts to Improve Systems and Outcomes for Young Children
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Renewing Our Pledge: A Path to Ending Lead Poisoning of Buffalo’s Most Vulnerable Citizens
While lead is potentially harmful to individuals at any age, it is especially dangerous for children under the age of six. In extreme cases, lead exposure can result in organ failure and death. The good news is that lead poisoning is preventable and eradicating lead from our community is possible.
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Early Childhood Advocacy Group Hosts Program on Medicaid
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Liftoff Launches in Western New York
Our children deserve every opportunity to succeed. Unified by this belief, early childhood funders across Western New York have joined forces to form Liftoff, which was publicly launched in the summer of 2018 at press conferences in Erie and Chautauqua counties, to work with existing community organizations and networks to ensure that, by the time children reach kindergarten, they are prepared physically, socially, emotionally and cognitively to reach their fullest potential.
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Foundations and Groups Unite to Make Early Childhood Education a Higher Priority
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The State of New York’s Children
New York is home to more than four million children. The Schuyler Center for Analysis and Advocacy provides a look into the state’s children, who are rich in their diversity, on the basis of economic security, health, child welfare, early care and education.