WSA brought five of our 2010 WSA Parent Ambassadors to Washington DC in September. They attended the National Head Start Association Leadership Conference, gave a workshop to other participants on Advocacy, and met with both Senator Murray (pictured below) and Senator Cantwell. Our parents also reached eight of our 9 legislative offices to advocate for Head Start/Early Head Start and child care funding, and had a great, meeting with Yvette Sanchez Fuentes, Director of the Office of Head Start, and several of her senior staff members. They did an incredible job!
- Click here for April Ritter's (ESD 113 Sound to Harbor Head Start) account of her experience
- Click here for a short video of April telling her story to Yvette Sanchez Fuentes (you won't want to miss this!)
- Click here to see Robb Atherton tell his inspiring story. Robb doesn't mention it in the video, but he's now in his 2nd year of community college, with a 3.75 GPA in Computer Science - turning his life around and helping his family through the help of Lower Columbia Head Start/ECEAP program.
- And click here to see the WSA facebook page - you don't even have to sign up for facebook to put it in your bookmarks, and it's a great way to keep up-to-date with things we see in the news that affect ECEAP or Head Start programs and families, activities and events of WSA and the Parent Ambassadors, and more.