Safe and Stable: Introduction
July 24 marked the beginning of the National Housing Week of Action. In recognition, Michigan’s Children is launching Safe and Stable, a guest blog series to shine a light on the systems…
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What Do We Expect For Our Vote? Round 2
July 25, 2017 – Here we are again, getting much less out of our elected officials than we deserve. This time it is with our members of Congress, but similar…
Advocacy Matters: State Budget Foster Care Wins
June 26, 2017 – Many legislators love nothing more than being able to leverage state investment with other funding to increase the reach of the limited dollars in our state…
Meet Bobby, our Newest Staff Member: Ready to Serve
June 23, 2017 – Whenever possible at lunch, I like to enjoy my sandwich along Lansing’s Grand River river trail, a couple blocks from our office but, beneath shady trees…
What Do We Expect For Our Vote?
May 12, 2017 – We live in a representative democracy — a republic. We put a few things up to a full vote of the people, but those things are…
Volunteer Your Time and Your Voice for Action
April 24, 2017 – National Volunteer Week is being acknowledged this week to celebrate the people who volunteer their time to make their communities better places to live. Primarily, when people…
Child Abuse Prevention Awareness and Action
April 10, 2017 – During the month of April, in honor of National Child Abuse Prevention Month, people across the country come together to raise awareness about the need to…
Keeping Family Voices in the Budget Conversation
April 5, 2017 – Michigan’s Children helped to facilitate two FamilySpeak opportunities at the State Capitol in February, continuing our long tradition of helping policy makers learn directly from the…
Reading and Parenting in March
Wow, I have rarely seen so many legislators embracing March as National Reading Month as I have this year. I have seen lots of their newsletters highlighting their trips to…
Democracy is not a one-way street. Unhappy? Start talking about it.
The Center for Michigan released their most recent community conversation report this week, which evidenced some pretty extreme distrust of the public sector and public systems intended to work for…