The Finance Project is pleased to announce a new publication expanding our body of work on financing education, family and children's services, community building and development. This brief addresses strategies to ensure that policy makers hear the voices of children and families so that effective early childhood initiatives can be enacted, implemented and sustained. It helps readers understand how they can influence the basic legislative processes of creating statutes, resolutions, budgets and appropriations and when to use alternatives to legislation. It includes examples and lessons learned from efforts across the county to support early childhood and other child and family initiatives in good times as well as bad. And it provides key guidelines and advice for everyday people-including parents, teachers and other service providers, members of business, religious and community groups and many others-for educating and working with policy makers to support initiatives that promote the well-being of young children and their families. http://www.financeprojectinfo.org/Publications/LegislativeStrategies.pdf (Source: PENN Newsletter)