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started by Kaci Osborne on 13 Dec 11
  • Kaci Osborne
    #1 Kaci Osborne on 13 Dec 11
  • Kaci Osborne
    #2 Kaci Osborne on 13 Dec 11
     
    The Children's Defense Fund was founded in 1973 by Marian Wright Edelman. Edelman was the first Black woman admitted to the Mississippi bar and directed the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund office in Jackson, Miss. This group's goal is to challenge the United States to raise the standards of programs offered to impoverished children and improve the policies that affect them. The website offers links to the different programs and campaigns that they have founded. In addition it lists the policies that they have written and had approved. It also shows you how to take action by filling out an online petition, allowing you to join an online blog, and includes upcoming events that can be attended. This is a great resource for poverty stricken families who are looking for help for their children. This website helps these families make sure their children are given healthcare, a nutritious diet, and an education despite their parents' income. I think this is a great website, but slightly ironic because I don't envision most poverty stricken families have the internet. The group and website prove their credibility by showing their financial reports and offering a reference library to give you more information on the founders and the different groups and policies they are associated with.This website relates to this class because its focus is on families trying to find a way to make ends meet.
  • Becky Skehan-Passie
    #3 Becky Skehan-Passie on 13 Dec 11
     
    Kaci,
    Thank you for bringing this website to our attention. With everything we've learned in this class I was really discouraged about the state of child care for working parents. I hated to hear about children that are too young to fend for themselves, having to, because there's no choice. I find it encouraging that programs like this exist, though I agree, if you need these programs you probably can't afford the internet, but hopefully when they go to places like the unemployment office, they are given information about it in the way of pamphlets or wall-postings with phone numbers. Another obstacle that I think we often overlook is pride. I think a lot of families who would benefit from these programs probably don't because they are the ones who would never want to take "a handout." I took the liberty of perusing the website myself and I saw "the Cradle to Prison Pipeline Campaign" and I thought, "what the heck is that?" I was aware that minority children had a greater chance of spending time in prisons than non-minority children, but I had no idea that the numbers were that dismal ( 1 in 3 black children and 1 in 6 Latino children born in 2001 will at some point in their life spend time in prison). That is alarming and paints a picture of the help that our youth need. I was also encouraged to read that there are groups who work to identify these problem and step in and remedy them to try to reverse these numbers. It's amazing to think that, as cited, something as easy as educating them and helping them develop in early childhood as well as giving them access to physical and mental healthcare can impede or erase many of these statistic. I wouldn't have seen the correlation or drawn the parallels without having explored this website.

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