Values to Votes Webinar Series
Webinar One -- Framework Basics and Parents
This webinar provided an overview of the Values to Votes framework and the centrality of grassroots advocacy in creating a more informed electorate. Ailen Arreaza from ParentsTogether provided insights from work to engage parents as a key persuadable constituency. Jasmine Jones shared opportunities and strategies for drwaing upon child advocacy organizations and state coalitions to support that grassroots advocacy.
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Webinar Two -- Persuadable Rural Voers
This webinar focused upon rural and small town communities and engaging, educating, and persuading persuadable votes there around their core values, including the value of preserving their way of life. Two leaders, Jess Piper and Denise O'Brien, described the importance of developing a value-based rural message, identifying and promoting key grassroots messengers, and meeting persuadable constituents where they connect with one another, as core to effective advocacy strategies.
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Webinar Three -- Congress and the Future of Child Health
Webinar Three -- Congress and the Future of Child Health
This webinar provided an introduction from Charles Bruner on the centrality of health to the values the vast majority of voters hold and the opportunity to use that to get beyond the political noise in current partisan campaign news. Diana Fishbein from the University of North Carolina's Child Development Institute and the National Prevention Science Coalition to Improve Lives described the multiple issues on the table for Congressional action and how policy experts and advocates at the federal level can support grassroots education and advocacy. Mayra Alvarez from the Children's Partnership described how these actions impact state policy and how state policy advocates can support grassroots dialogue to inform voters.
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