• Advocacy Principles
• Advocacy By Charitable Organizations
• How to Testify at a Public Hearing
• How-To Resources from the Center for Lobbying in the Public Interest
• Rating Legislation
• Child Advocacy Primer
• Issues For A Children's Agenda
• Stand For Children Ideas
• The ABCs Of Movement Building
• Lobbying Legislators
• Barriers To Grassroots Organizing

Advocacy

Advocacy Principles

We believe that all Maine children should have the economic necessities of life; that they should be safe healthy, nurtured emotionally and intellectually by a family and a community; and that they have the opportunity to reach their potential.

The bottom line:

1. Measure everything by how it affects children

2. Children have the right to:

• a safe environment (a family environment to grow up in);
  
• free and appropriate education; love, respect, and understanding;
  
• full opportunity for play and recreation;
  
• health care;
  
• the opportunity to develop individual abilities, and learn to be useful members of society
  

3. Create economic policies and programs that consciously and specifically address family needs.

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