Family Values At Work A Multi-State Consortium

Democracy and integrated voter engagement (dive) and oasis. Dive connects the fight for voting rights to the success of economic issues by engaging communities in voter and civic engagement to win on care infrastructure issues across the country. Oasis is a 9-month cohort based program that provides a protected space and supports a network for women legislators to build the resilience necessary to effectively lead and co-create a society that works for all pepole. The activities of oasis are nonpartisan, 501 c3 compliant.

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.