Tools for advocates

Early care and education

Supporting a Diverse and Culturally Competent Workforce, from the Center for Law and Social Policy, discusses research on how cultural identity and language skills relate to healthy development, as well as how a diverse and culturally competent early care and education workforce can support children's development.

Developing America's Potential: An Agenda for High-Quality Child Care, from the National Women's Law Center, offers a framework for federal reauthorization of the Child Care and Development Block Grant. Organizations and individuals can sign on in support of the agenda.

Impacts of Early Childhood Programs, from the Brookings Institute, is a set of user-friendly research briefs on the positive effects of state preschool, Head Start, Early Head Start, model child care programs, and nurse home visiting on children and families.

Health

Communities in Action for Asthma-Friendly Environments offers a searchable, online resource bank of hundreds of asthma-related tools and materials.

Where We Live Matters for Our Health: the Links Between Housing and Health, from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, discusses strategies to improve health by ensuring that everyone in the US lives in healthy homes and neighborhoods.