Children’s Advocacy Day
Action for Children NC, the Covenant with North Carolina’s Children, the North Carolina Partnership for Children, Inc., NC MomsRising, the NC Pediatric Society, the Child Care Coalition and others will join forces for a day of educating the General Assembly on the importance of children’s programs and services, including health insurance for children, child care subsidies and early education, infant mortality prevention funding, and community-based services for at-risk youth. Children did not create the current budget crisis and they should not have to shoulder the burden of solving it.
When: Tuesday, March 15. 9 am; press conference at 11:30.
Where: NC General Assembly, 16 West Jones Street, Raleigh, NC 27601. Children’s Advocacy Day table will be set up in the 1100 court in the Legislative Building. Press conference will be held in front of the Legislative Building (on Jones St.).
