Tools for advocates

• Breathing Easy from Home to School, from PolicyLink, offers strategies to help communities reduce factors that contribute to childhood asthma. Includes California case studies.
  
  
• How to Plan a Site Visit: Invite Policymakers to See Your Work with Infants, Toddlers, and Their Families, from Zero to Three, offers tips for inviting policymakers to visit early care and education programs and for getting ready for the visit.
  
  
• A Public Engagement Primer, from Public Agenda, discusses why engaging people in public policy decisions is important and looks at the pros and cons of key strategies.
  
  
• Protect Children, Not Guns, from the Children's Defense Fund, finds that the number of children killed by firearms in 2005 (most recent data) increased for the first time since 1994. Provides state-level data and ways to take action against gun violence.
  
  
• Tips and Tools for Flexible Work Options, from Moms Rising, compiles resources on flexible work arrangements for employees, employers, and stay-at-home parents.