Vision for Children - Ways You Can Help

Ways You Can Help

Ways you and your business can help the St. Louis area invest in kids:

Provide leadership

Speak up for business and civic initiatives that promote the well-being of children.

Join the board of a child-serving organization.

Work through civic organizations to ensure that the welfare of children is identified as a community priority.

Contribute the time of your lobbyist to advocate for policies and programs promoting child well-being.

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Invest financially

Support best-practice strategies that promote successful childhood development.

Support collaborative initiatives that strategically address the needs of children.

Use your resources to leverage additional funding.

Make your voice heard in governmental decisions affecting children.

Support development of the large and growing child care industry.

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Make your business child and family friendly

Adopt such policies as flex-time, job sharing, parental leave and flexible spending accounts.

Help families secure quality child care.

Encourage and support employees to volunteer as mentors, tutors or coaches.

Encourage and support employees to invest time in their own children.

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“Early interventions have lasting effects. The early years are important for early learning. Social skills and motivation also are more easily improved, those factors are as important to success in school and the workplace as IQ.”

James J. Heckman, Ph.D. Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences University of Chicago

Business & Civic Strategies for Investing in Child Well-Being to Promote Community & Economic Development