WCA Banner 2009.05.21
 
ADVOCACY ALERT:  
 
Protect Investments for Children
in the
2010 Westchester County Budget 
 
Join WCA in urging the Westchester County Board of Legislators to protect investments for children in the 2010 County Budget.  Invite your friends, family, neighbors, and colleagues to take action with you and make your voices heard!  Here's how:
  1. Sign our online petition and pass it along
  2. Gather signatures using our paper petition*
  3. Attend a public hearing - Click here for the schedule

In recent years, Westchester County has made important investments in the well being of children and youth, investments that result in long term savings because they prevent future problems at a fraction of the cost of later treating those problems.
 
 We urge the Board of Legislators to support the following initiatives in 2010 to secure a bright future for all our children:
  • Invest in Kids. Supports dozens of community based youth programs serving thousands of children and teens each year. Maintain funding at $2,034,399. Click here* for more information.

  • Early Step Forward. Innovative, preventive mental health program for children in early childhood centers (currently, in Mount Vernon, Yonkers and Port Chester). Expand funding from $367,000 to $768,470. Click here* for more information.

  • Independent Living Fund. Makes grants of up to $3,000 to each young adult who is leaving foster care and is establishing an independent household, separate from his or her family. Maintain funding at $100,000.  Click here* for more information.

  • Parenting/Home Visiting. Support Westchester's Home Visiting Workgroup to increase the number of Pre-natal, Infant and Early Childhood Home Visiting Programs (HVPs) in the county.  Click here* for more information.
Your voice counts!  Make sure the Westchester County Board of Legislators hears it.  Sign (and have others sign) the WCA petition, either online or on paper, and attend a public hearing of the Board.

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