Policy & Advocacy
The Oakland Starting Smart and Strong Policy & Advocacy Agenda is our way of leveraging the power of our collaborative’s stakeholders – families, educators and public and private resource holders – to advocate for systems-building efforts to support children and families most impacted by racial and economic inequity.
Our policy agenda is grounded in these equity areas:
The Black Lives Matter movement for racial justice, coupled with the COVID-19 pandemic, has laid bare our nation’s systemic inequities. We stand with our Black and Latinx communities in Oakland to fight institutionalized racism. This moment calls for long-term, large-scale responses that shift power and resources to communities of color to build a just society. The Oakland Starting Smart and Strong advocacy agenda is our contribution to getting there.
Our policy work has been developed with support from the Hellman Foundation.
Learn more about our policy agenda here.
Our policy agenda is grounded in these equity areas:
- Systems change for Oakland’s youngest learners
- Parent and family leadership in community investment
- Equity for early childhood professionals and friend/family/neighbor caregivers
The Black Lives Matter movement for racial justice, coupled with the COVID-19 pandemic, has laid bare our nation’s systemic inequities. We stand with our Black and Latinx communities in Oakland to fight institutionalized racism. This moment calls for long-term, large-scale responses that shift power and resources to communities of color to build a just society. The Oakland Starting Smart and Strong advocacy agenda is our contribution to getting there.
Our policy work has been developed with support from the Hellman Foundation.
Learn more about our policy agenda here.