Celebrating 20 years of advocacy
The Children’s Advocacy Alliance is excited to commemorate 20 years of advocating for the children and families of Nevada! Over the last 20 years, we have worked diligently to ensure that every child in Nevada has the opportunity to be safe and healthy, with the ability to enter school ready to learn and succeed in life…
Be an advocate for change
Strong voices make all the difference. Add your voice to our cause by
taking action on the following initiatives
Educators, Share Your Story.
Educators, Share Your Story. Early educators are a vital part of our community, providing children with a head start to academic success, and parents with important support and care. The Children's Advocacy Alliance (CAA) is collecting stories of early educators for similar future projects like the one below which we use to show legislators and business leaders how challenging and rewarding the life of an early educator can be. https://www.caanv.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Child-Care-Subsidy-StoryBook.pdf
Thank Nevada’s Child Care Providers!
Join the Children's Advocacy Alliance in thanking Nevada's Child Care Providers! Essential service and emergency workers are at the heart of this pandemic. We owe so much more than words can offer to those risking their health each and every day for us. Behind many of those essential and emergency workers are the invisible heroes of the child care industry, working hard to make sure their kids are safe while their parents continue to work. COVID-19 is highlighting our community’s need for child care providers, more now than ever. Whether you have children of your own in child care, whether you’re working or not, and whether or not you have your own children, access to child care for essential and emergency workers impacts you. Please join the Children’s Advocacy Alliance in sending a letter of thanks to child care providers across our state.
Urgent Request: Ask your lawmakers to support children and families
Urgent Request: Ask your lawmakers to support children and families in future legislation in response to the COVID-19 crisis As Congress considers a far-reaching economic stimulus package and other legislation in response to the COVID-19 crisis, join the Children's Advocacy Alliance in urging lawmakers to include robust supports for Nevada's Children and Families.
Share your Child Care Story!
The Children's Advocacy Alliance urges you to share your child care story. By sharing your story, you can help policymakers identify the change needed to develop a safe, affordable, and high-quality early care and learning system that works for all families.
Become an Advocate
The Children's Advocacy Alliance Action Team is made up of Nevadans who are passionate champions of policies and laws that help children achieve their highest potential throughout their lives — at school, at work, at home, and in their communities. We're committed advocates who take on the toughest challenges, especially for children who live in families with low-income and those who face multiple forms of discrimination — and we make change happen.
Analysis: Advocates look to 2018 midterms to restore, protect ACA
By Ric Anderson
Monday, March 26, 2018
With a voice that was nearly taken from him by a rare form of cancer in his larynx, Joe Merlino makes a powerful argument in favor of the Affordable Care Act and Medicaid expansion.
In 2014, Merlino was hospitalized after suffering an infection and complications from surgery to remove the cancer, including a condition in which his trachea shrank to just a couple of millimeters wide.
“It was like breathing through one of those little straws you stir coffee with,” he said. “Try it sometime. I guarantee it’s a terrible feeling.”…