Consider the issues in your own community that present challenges for children and families. Poverty, access to health care, affordable housing, and access to multilingual resources are just a few examples of issues that affect children and families. As an early childhood professional, you have the responsibility to communicate and collaborate with agencies and government officials to advocate for change that can positively impact children and families.

For this Work Product, you will identify an advocacy issue relevant to your community and communicate and collaborate with agencies and/or organizations, along with government officials, to address the advocacy issue.

Your response to this Assignment should:

• Reflect the criteria provided in the Rubric.
• Adhere to the required assignment length.
• Use the APA course paper template available here. All submissions must follow the conventions of scholarly writing.
• Properly formatted APA citations and references must be provided where appropriate.