FAMILY VALUES WORK A MULTI-STATE

A major campaign that was in planning stages that will be fully launched in 2024-2025 is the new ecosystem work: supporting policy ecosystems to make children and families a priority. Fvaw will be a co-anchor of this work that will support organizations around the country to work towards long term goals that include: 1) strengthen and reinforce advocated connections working in child advocacy and economic inclusion and in ways that apply a structural racism lens; 2) evolve existing infrastructure to advance long term strategic approaches that stitch together domains of naratives and policy change to center the well being of children and families; 3) influence the national conversation so that children's issues are seen as economic issues and vice-versa; 4) build power at the community, state, and regional level to ensure advocates are centering their work around the needs of families; and 5) support catalytic policy changes at the state level that enable the conditions to create a more inclusive economy.