Early Childhood Budget Requests from Michigan’s Children
(April 10, 2026) – Use these child care scholarship and Early On budget request documents to prepare talking points for a call, email, or meeting with your state lawmakers. For extra brownie points, send these documents to your state lawmakers!
Advocate for Early Childhood Programs with these Call Scripts & Action Alerts
(April 10, 2026) – The state Senate and House are finalizing their state budget proposals in the next month or two, which means now is the time to advocate for the early childhood programs that your community depends on. It only takes 2 minutes to call using our easy call scripts:
- Child care scholarship script
- Early On script
- Rx Kids script
- Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation call script
Double up on early childhood advocacy by emailing your lawmakers using these pre-written email templates:
- Child care scholarship action alert
- Early On action alert
- Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation action alert
- This funding request document can help you formulate talking points. Extra brownie points if you send these to your state lawmakers!
Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation funding request
Other helpful resources:
- Here’s an Early Childhood Budget Advocacy Toolkit: EC Budget Advocacy Toolkit
- These funding request documents can help you formulate talking points. Extra brownie points if you send these to your state lawmakers!
Michigan can fix special education funding by aligning resources with what students truly need
The Michigan Special Education Finance Reform Blueprint (MI Blueprint) shows exactly how to get there. We need state leaders to act. Tell Michigan policymakers to support the MI Blueprint special education funding reform. Join us for our upcoming Lunch & Learn to learn more about the MI Special Education blueprint and the recently published Special Education Benchmark Report. Link to Action Alert.
This is the agenda from the MiPAAC meeting. They have the QR code to the action alert in the agenda on page 6. Click here.