What Do We Expect For Our Vote?
May 12, 2017 – We live in a representative democracy — a republic. We put a few things up to a full vote of the people, but those things are…
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Volunteer Your Time and Your Voice for Action
April 24, 2017 – National Volunteer Week is being acknowledged this week to celebrate the people who volunteer their time to make their communities better places to live. Primarily, when people…
Child Abuse Prevention Awareness and Action
April 10, 2017 – During the month of April, in honor of National Child Abuse Prevention Month, people across the country come together to raise awareness about the need to…
Keeping Family Voices in the Budget Conversation
April 5, 2017 – Michigan’s Children helped to facilitate two FamilySpeak opportunities at the State Capitol in February, continuing our long tradition of helping policy makers learn directly from the…
Reading and Parenting in March
Wow, I have rarely seen so many legislators embracing March as National Reading Month as I have this year. I have seen lots of their newsletters highlighting their trips to…
Democracy is not a one-way street. Unhappy? Start talking about it.
The Center for Michigan released their most recent community conversation report this week, which evidenced some pretty extreme distrust of the public sector and public systems intended to work for…
Staying the Course
February 10, 2017 – An old friend of mine died this week, her funeral was today. Louise Sause lived to be 104 years old, (wow, right), and I was blessed…
A Big Thanks to You as I Move On
February 6, 2017 – This week marks my last week at Michigan’s Children. As I reflect back on my time at this incredibly important organization, I am so proud of…
Keeping the Momentum Going After the March
January 26, 2017 – On Saturday, millions of people participated in either the Women’s March in Washington, D.C. or one of hundreds of sister marches or rallies across the globe.…
The Elections are Over. Now What About the Babies?
November 17, 2016 – As you know, in our wonderful and imperfect democracy that we call the United States of America, citizens recently had the opportunity to vote for elected…