January-February Children's Advocate

Check out our January-February Children's Advocate issue -- now available and online in English, Spanish, and Chinese! This issue includes our annual multicultural calendar with dates for key 2009 multicultural holidays as well as anniversaries of significant events. In this issue:

• 2009 multicultural calendar (online only!)
• Grassroots Snapshot: Families win pesticide buffer zone
• Hot topics: LIFETIME helps parents get their CalWORKs benefits
• Early Care and Education: Learning through play: Ways children can bump into numbers
• Hot topics: Union? Family child care association? Family child care providers debate the benefits
• Raising kids: Parents talk with kids about their family's tough times
• Community resources: Resources for families going through tough times
• California Child Development CORPS: The CARES stipend is a strong motivator
• Parent Voices: "Now everything I do incorporates Parent Voices"

In English at http://www.4children.org/issues/2009/january_february
(for Spanish or Chinese, click on the link at the top of that page)