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Please join DFT for Legislative District visits! Visit your local officials and advocate for quality early learning and care. Please contact Cara Belkofer for more information.

Docs For Tots and Winning Beginning New York celebrate Advocacy Day 2009 in Albany, NY (2/11/09). Event Information Flyer

Docs For Tots partners with Child Care Inc. in New York City to launch Project PedK (4/14/08)

Public health plays a very important role in promoting early childhood development and quality child care through the Early Childhood Coalition, Child Health Promotion Specialist Services, and home visiting.
Services can help children get a healthy start (Binghampton Press & Sun Bulletin, 4/9/08)

Docs For Tots' Investing in Early Care and Education is a Powerful Public Health Initiative for New York's Chidlren - 2 page research summary cited by The Early Years Matter (4/3/08)

Download our new Rx for Pre-K.  Sign it and mail it to your legislators to highlight the need to improve access to Pre-K for New York's children.

New York City to release a standard Pre-K application this week for use by families across all boroughs.
City streamlines pre-k application (New York Daily News, 3/25/08)

Docs For Tots responds to  NIEER's The State of Preschool 2007: New York Doctors Call for Improved Access to Pre-K (3/20/08)

Docs For Tots releases its research brief Investing in Early Care and Education is a Powerful Public Health Initiative for New York's Children. 

Learn more about the health benefits and opportunities of quality early care and education. (02/13/08)

Docs For Tots' letter to the editor about Pre-K funding published in Newday.
Kids Need Quality Pre-K.  (Newsday, 01/09/08)

Olivia Golden, chief of operations of New York State, has just been appointed head of the state’s first-ever Children’s Cabinet, with pre-K expansion its first order of business.
Olivia Golden: Head of New York’s
First-Ever Children’s Cabinet (NIEER Preschool Matters)

Did you know there is a Pre-K crisis on Long Island?  There is real concern that our hard won pre-k dollars will go away if we do not speak up.  Learn more by reading this fact sheet. (01/08/08)

Learn more about the Early Care and Education Legislative Agenda.  (01/08/08)

Governor Spitzer's push to give all of the state's 4-year-olds a free education has won him praise, but the program is hitting a snag: $88 million of the funding is sitting fallow.
Red Tape Leaves Tots Without Pre-Kindergarten Schools.  (New York Sun, 12/21/07)

A Letter to the Editor from Generations United, in response to Fred LeBrun's Dec. 11 column, "State of the State speech will tell a lot about State of Spitzer"
Spitzer's pre-K initiatives are a good beginning

View Docs For Tots' new Early Care and Education prescription here. 

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