Program areas at Children's Advocacy Alliance
The Children's Advocacy Alliance is committed to ensuring that every child in Nevada has the opportunity to grow up healthy, from the prenatal period all the way through their teen years. Children's Advocacy Alliance advocates for: Expanded access to health insurance programs for children and families, including CHIP, Medicaid, and subsidized health insurance; Expanded access to child mental health services by reducing barriers for quality behavioral healthcare providers; Expanded access to quality and timely pre and post natal healthcare.
To promote optimal outcomes for all children and families in Nevada, the Children's Advocacy Alliance is working to:Increase foster transition support and educational resources; Promote restorative practices, reduce racial disproportionality in discipline and reduce pathways to the juvenile justice system; Build the collective voice of youth through support groups and civic engagement opportunities; Collect data and conduct research on best practices to develop a comprehensive system for preventing child abuse and neglect and providing necessary care and services for children and families in the system.
Children's Advocacy Alliance has developed partnerships that promote high quality early child care and early learning as well as robust afterschool programs. We believe that to move the needle in education in Nevada, we need to: Promote access to high-quality, affordable, early learning and child-care opportunities for all children; Promote business involvement in early learning through tax incentive programs that reward businesses that offer child care stipends for employees, site-based care, promotion and use of FSA programs, and others; Increase child care subsidy eligibility to ensure that more working families can afford care and increasing the state child care development fund contribution, including the use of current market rates to determine subsidy reimbursements; Create alignment between all early childhood systems including early childhood educators, health services providers, social services providers, and parents.
The Children's Advocacy Alliance is committed to the long-term goal of ensuring all children benefit from ecomonic well-being.