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Unhealthy and Unprepared • Council for a Strong America
WEBWhile nearly one-third of 17-to-24-year olds are too overweight to qualify for military service, the problem starts much earlier. Children as young as two are experiencing rising obesity rates, which increase with age. Currently, 42 percent of teens between the ages of 16 and 19 are overweight. These alarming numbers demonstrate the need for
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A Healthy Bottom Line • Council for a Strong America
WEBAll of these benefits help create a lifelong culture of health—which also improves businesses’ bottom lines. All companies need a healthy workforce, and early education helps lay the foundation for the long-term health of employees, families and communities. Tim Solso, Chairman, General Motors Company; Retired Chairman and …
Insure Our Children to Ensure Our Future
WEBThe Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) provides healthcare to 8.9 million children―one out of every ten kids in the U.S. While CHIP is often lauded for its role insuring children in working families, research also points to much broader benefits from the program that extend to the nation’s economy and public safety.
Our Organization • Council for a Strong America
WEBBuilding a stronger America by ensuring that children become successful adults. Council for a Strong America (CSA) is a national, bipartisan nonprofit that unites membership organizations including law enforcement leaders (Fight Crime: Invest in Kids), retired admirals and generals (Mission: Readiness), and business executives (ReadyNation), …
Home Visiting • Council for a Strong America
WEBFor nearly 150,000 families nationwide, voluntary home visiting programs are a vital support. This service enables at-risk parents—often single, teen moms—to receive coaching from a trained nurse or health professional on how to give their children a safe and healthy start in life. Council for a Strong America educates policymakers about
Supporting Early Childhood Mental Health Sets Georgia’s Kids Up …
WEBEarly childhood mental health (ECMH) is the developing ability of young children (birth to age 5) to form relationships with adults and peers; experience, express, and manage a range of emotions; and explore the environment and learn.
Our Impact • Council for a Strong America
WEBChild Care Funding: The lack of quality child care has a huge, negative economic impact on our country, totaling $122 billion each year, for infants and toddlers alone (see our report). CSA has worked over the past decade to push for increases in funding for the primary federal child care legislation, the Child Care and Development Block Grants.
Our Work • Council for a Strong America
WEBThe Mississippi Pre-K Tax Credit Supports Early Learning. Council for a Strong America is a national, bipartisan nonprofit that unites three organizations comprised of law enforcement leaders, retired admirals and generals, and business executives who promote solutions that ensure our next generation of Americans will be citizen-ready.
Council for a Strong America
WEBDavid and his wife, Mackenzie, a Clinton native, are the parents of nine-year-old twins, Helen and Charlotte. Council for a Strong America is a national, bipartisan nonprofit that unites three organizations comprised of law enforcement leaders, retired admirals and generals, and business executives who promote solutions that ensure our next
Mental Health Reform Letter to Congress
WEB1,200 police chiefs, sheriffs and prosecutors nationwide sent a letter urging Congress to support mental health reform as a public safety matter. Law enforcement officers are often left to deal with the repercussions of an inadequate mental health system. Untreated mental illness is far too often a factor for those in jails and courtrooms
Strong Kids, Strong Nutrition, Strong Nation
WEBStrong Kids, Strong Nutrition, Strong Nation. Part of Mission: Readiness’ mission is to help prepare young people to qualify to enter the military if they so choose. Lack of physical fitness is one of the leading reasons that the opportunities afforded by military service are off the table for nearly three-quarters of American youth.
Brain Science Speakers • Council for a Strong America
WEBAmelia Bachleda, Ph.D. is an Outreach and Education Specialist at the University of Washington’s Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences. I-LABS is a leading research institute devoted to understanding learning and the brain. Dr. Bachleda’s professional background bridges the gap between two distinct fields - education and …
Facing the Educational Challenges Ahead in Arkansas
WEBThe COVID-19 pandemic revealed, created, and exacerbated a number of obstacles to preparing the children of Arkansas for lifelong success. The necessity of social distancing upended classroom instruction. Consequences of unreliable internet access grew larger and fell unevenly on rural and lower-income communities.
Child Care Providers: The Workforce Behind the Workforce in Maine
WEBInvestments in child care programs with highly-qualified teaching staff set kids on the path to success. Quality child care can strengthen the current and future workforce, contribute to a strong economy and public safety, and enhance national security. Unfortunately, Maine’s child care system does not meet the needs of our state’s children
Restorative Justice and Positive Behavior Intervention Support
WEBPBIS is a school-wide prevention strategy for improving behavior and school climate. With PBIS, schools create three to five clear behavioral expectations and rules that all students and teachers know and follow. From the outset, PBIS sets a positive interaction between the student and teachers, school resource officers (SRO), bus drivers, or
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