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The Lasting Benefits of Home Visiting: Engaging Business Leaders in

The Lasting Benefits of Home Visiting: Engaging Business Leaders in Smart Early Childhood Investments October 18, 2011. Pew Home Visiting Campaign. Advancing smart state and federal policies and investments in high-quality, home-based programs for new and expectant families.

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The Lasting Benefits of Home Visiting: Engaging Business Leaders in

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  1. The Lasting Benefits of Home Visiting: Engaging Business Leaders in Smart Early Childhood Investments October 18, 2011

  2. Pew Home Visiting Campaign • Advancing smart state and federal policies and investments in high-quality, home-based programs for new and expectant families. • Our primary focus areas include: • Policy Advocacy • Research • Information Sharing • www.pewcenteronthestates.org/homevisiting

  3. Pew Home Visiting Campaign • RECOMMENDATIONS • Require tracking of all home visiting funds. • Insist on—and invest in—programs with a foundation in research. • Support and require programs to monitor performance and evaluate key outcomes. • Set clear, evidence-based eligibility guidelines and develop systems to ensure compliance. • Use the best available data about families to determine appropriate home visiting allocations and to establish a realistic plan for expansion. REPORT

  4. Business Leadership for Early Childhood Sara Watson Director, Partnership for America’s Economic Success swatson@pewtrusts.org www.PartnershipforSuccess.org

  5. Partnership for America’s Economic Success • Purpose: Amplify business voice for early childhood • Results: In 2010-11 • 4,300 business-policymaker communications in 9 target states (AL, CO, KY, OH, OR, PA, TN, VA, VT) • 1,200 business members • Demonstrable impact on policy change on variety of early childhood issues • Home visiting states so far: • Tennessee (Knoxville Chamber) • Michigan (Grand Rapids Chamber, expected) • Ohio (Ohio Business Roundtable)

  6. Strategies • Support and advise state business coalitions (26 states so far) • Build on in-state capacity – chambers, Business Roundtables, etc. • Improve advocates’ ability to work with business • Work on variety of issues • Engage national business groups to educate their members in the states American Chamber of Commerce Executives

  7. Strategies (cont.) • Provide tools and advice through web, listserv, conference calls, national and state conferences, trainings for advocates • Host speakers’ bureau of business leaders • Provide new evidence of economic impact– housing, family income, health care, nutrition, parenting, child care

  8. The Business Community Speaks Out

  9. Lessons Learned • Start with early childhood, then introduce HV as one practical step • Use many “hooks” • Prepare to get what you wish for • Neither “rubber stamp” nor “War and Peace” • Play to their strengths • Don’t mix fundraising with advocacy

  10. Effective messages • Parental responsibility • ROI • Effective use of funds $

  11. What we can offer • Visit www.partnershipforsuccess.com

  12. What we can offer • Take Action  Advocacy Tools (advice on engaging business community)

  13. What we can offer • Business Networks (examples of model business coalitions, access to peer consultants)

  14. What we can offer • Events (Access to national speakers, advice on regional meetings)

  15. What we can offer • Research

  16. What we can offer • Sign up for the Partnership listserv

  17. A Business Perspective Steward E. Sandstrom, CCE President and CEO Kalamazoo Regional Chamber of Commerce • Sandstrom is extensively involved in the Kalamazoo community through work on numerous boards, advisory councils, and volunteer organizations. His community involvement includes work with Communities in Schools, the Nurse-Family Partnership, the Poverty Reduction Initiative, and the SW Michigan Boy Scouts Council. Professionally, he serves on the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Council of 100. Additionally, he serves on the U.S. Chamber’s Transportation and Energy Committees.

  18. A Business Perspective Larry Langley President ad CEO New Mexico Business Roundtable Among many of his associates, Larry Langley is called the “go-to-person” for New Mexico’s education and economic development issues. Langley leads the New Mexico Business Roundtable, a statewide association of executives of leading state companies, small business owners, and executives of trade organizations representing over 300,000 employees in the state of New Mexico.

  19. Q & A For more information visit: Pew Home Visiting Campaign www.pewcenteronthestates.org/homevisiting Partnership for America’s Economic Success www.partnershipforsuccess.org

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