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The playing field for early childhood advocacy is larger than any particular city or state. Every issue is national because the life of every child is tied to those of the other youngsters who benefit from our work. Just Beginning provides early childhood development experts and advocates with the information they need to stay abreast of upcoming events, ongoing litigation and other developments throughout the United States.

Upcoming Events

State	City	Date	Event Name	Location

State	City	Organization	Website
Oregon	Eugene	Oregon Social Learning Center	http://www.oslc.org/
Illinois	Chicago	Chapin Hall	http://www.chapinhall.org/
Connecticut	Hartford	Connecticut Voices for Children	http://www.ctkidslink.org/
California	San Francisco	California Family to Family Initiative	http://www.f2f.ca.gov/
Michigan	Lansing	Early Childhood Investment Corporation	http://www.greatstartforkids.org/
Michigan	Lansing	Association for Children's Mental Health	http://www.acmh-mi.org/
Arizona	Scottsdale	ChildHelp	http://www.childhelp.org/
Connecticut	Hartford	Center for Children's Advocacy	http://www.kidscounsel.org/
District of Columbia	Washington	Children's Defense Fund	http://www.childrensdefense.org/
District of Columbia	Washington	CSSP	http://www.cssp.org/
California	Los Angeles	Alliance for Children's Rights	http://www.kids-alliance.org/
Colorado	Aurora	National Association of Counsel for Children	http://www.naccchildlaw.org/
Michigan		The Skillman Foundation	http://www.skillman.org/
District of Columbia	Washington D.C.	The Center for the Study of Social Policy	http://www.cssp.org
California	Los Angeles	Alliance for Children’s Rights
Maryland	College Park	Infant Caregiver Project	http://abcintervention.com
Louisiana	New Orleans	The Institute of Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health at Tulane University	http://www.infantinstitute.org
Minnesota	Minneapolis	The Institute of Child Development	http://www.cehd.umn.edu/ICD/
District of Columbia	Washington, DC	Georgetown Early Learning Project	http://www.elp.georgetown.edu
Michigan	Ann Arbor	Center for Human Growth and Development	http://www.chgd.umich.edu
Maryland	Baltimore	University of Maryland School of Social Work	http://www.ssw.umaryland.edu
New York	Rochester	University of Rochester Medical Center	http://www.urmc.rochester.edu
Ohio	Cleveland	Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, Case Western Reserve University	http://msass.case.edu
Washington	Seattle	University of Washington School of Social Work	http://depts.washington.edu/sswweb/research/centers_proj.html#PFOC
Florida	Tampa	Eckerd Family Foundaton	http://www.eckerdfamilyfoundation.org
Maryland	Baltimore	The Annie E. Casey Foundation	http://www.aecf.org/
Connecticut	New Haven	Casey Family Services	http://www.caseyfamilyservices.org/index.php/aboutus
Connecticut	New Haven	The Child Study Center	http://childstudycenter.yale.edu/
Florida	Tampa	Hillsborough Kids	http://www.hillsboroughkids.org/
Oregon	Eugene	Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care (MTFC)	http://www.mtfc.com/
Washington	Seattle	Partners for Our Children	http://www.partnersforourchildren.org/
Washington	Seattle	The Center for Children and Youth Justice	http://www.ccyj.org
District of Columbia	Washington, DC	Zero to Three	http://www.zerotothree.org
District of Columbia	Washington	Child Welfare Information Gateway	http://www.childwelfare.gov

It's an exciting time for people who are working in Early Childhood Development. The Youth Law Center's Just Beginning young children at risk program is directly involved with a number of research and policy reform projects across the nation.

This section will soon reflect an important insiders view of a number of collaborations that highlight the successes and challenges of these efforts.

Just Beginning programs seek to change Child Welfare policy by cooperation between the people who have the greatest potential to impact the lives of the children they protect and care for. When such cooperation proves difficult or impossible legal action is called for.

The cases you will find here reflect the most significant successes on behalf of children's rights on legal fronts.