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You have to dedicate time. That’s what COFI does.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Nancy Shier and her staff worked closely with COFI staff and POWER-PAC parent leaders on early learning policy, particularly those related to hard-to-reach families. The organizations came together after POWER-PAC published Why Isn\u2019t Johnny in Preschool?\u2014a report that detailed the findings of a door-to-door survey of 5,000 low-income parents in African-American and Latino communities. At a subsequent forum in Englewood, POWER-PAC presented its recommendations for overcoming the preschool access barriers they had uncovered in their research.<\/strong><\/p>\n

After they did that report, we were very impressed. We thought it would be very helpful to the work we were doing on the Early Learning Council that was related to hard-to-reach families. We reached out to them\u2014or they reached out to us, I don\u2019t remember. But we decided we should work together.<\/p>\n

On the Early Learning Council, there was a decision that we had to get some parent participation that was authentic and involved parents who participate in or who are eligible for the programs. That\u2019s how Gloria Harris [of POWER-PAC] became a member, and other parents joined the Council\u2019s hard-to-reach work group. COFI really brought a lot to the work group and played a very important role. Recommendations from that work group went on to the full Council.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve had some involvement with COFI\u2019s efforts around the recess campaign, giving legislative advice and trying to connect them with others who were interested in the issue. It\u2019s a bit of a challenge to be successful when you don\u2019t have a full time person in Springfield. You\u2019re taking on big powers and trying to regulate their behavior. That\u2019s always hard.<\/p>\n

The success of COFI\u2019s model is tied to the effort they\u2019ve put into starting at the beginning, where parents are in their lives, helping them get involved and exposing them to various things. Then COFI brings parents along to the next level of involvement, and then the next level of involvement, until they are ready to be an active participant around policy.<\/p>\n

Bringing parents through the process that COFI does has shown success that I haven\u2019t seen much of elsewhere.<\/p>\n

Most of the policy work in early childhood\u2014and on K thru 12\u2014is driven by professionals in the field\u2014advocates and program people. What missing, though, is hearing from parents, the target audience that the education programs are intended to serve. We need to hear about the issues and the strengths and the barriers that they see. We need to hear parents\u2019 insights into why it\u2019s so difficult to engage parents in certain programs.<\/p>\n

Often it\u2019s challenging to engage one or two parents sitting on some advisory committee where a lot of the language is jargon and acronyms. You have to dedicate time to support parents. That\u2019s one of the things that COFI has the capacity to do and does well\u2014working with parents before meetings, making sure they\u2019re up to speed, and then debriefing with them afterward.<\/p>\n

We have some parents on the Council\u2019s home visiting task force. We provide financial support by paying for babysitting and transportation. But we don\u2019t do that kind of support before and after the meeting that is really critical. There\u2019s another work group that is completely dominated by childcare providers and advocates. There are no parent members. Whenever they want to try and get the parent voice, they go to the most active providers and have them convene some sort of parent meeting. This is the perfect example of a system that is completely about parents and their voice is really not heard.<\/p>\n

When parents\u2019 voices are missing, policymakers don\u2019t know what parents want. At budget time, we make decisions all the time about what\u2019s important and what\u2019s not, about what to cut and what to keep. But none of that is informed by the voices of the people who participate in the program.<\/p>\n

Another underrepresented voice in early learning is from immigrant parents, particularly in childcare and early intervention services. It would be very good to hear the voice of the people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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