Category: Public Policy Advocacy

A Call to Restore State Funding for Help Me Grow

By advancingkids on March 15, 2017 • ( Leave a comment )

Paul H. Dworkin, MD, delivered the following testimony to the Connecticut state legislature’s Appropriations Committee on February 21, 2017, urging lawmakers to restore funding for Connecticut’s Help Me Grow program. Dr. Dworkin also wrote an opinion article on the same topic that was published in the Connecticut Mirror. Dr. […]

Public Policy Advocacy

By advancingkids on March 28, 2016 • ( Leave a comment )

By: Eminet Gurganus, MPH We have had extraordinary opportunities at the local, state and national levels to engage in public policy advocacy by speaking with policy makers in an effort to promote the optimal healthy development of children. One of those opportunities took place recently in Hartford where […]