My Own Capacity

There are two main issues that fuel my passion in the field of early childhood.  One is the quality of care that parents are receiving in early educational settings and the other is access to quality care that children from low socioeconomic backgrounds have.  I feel that my knowledge and experiences throughout my early educational career and my understanding of child development and issues surrounding this gives me more fuel behind my passion.  The fact that I am a continuing learner in that I always want to know more about the issues children and families face and the best ways to serve them also gives me more ways in which to help children and families.  I will use these skills when I open my own child development center to provide high quality care, resources for families such as parenting classes, connections to speech therapists, physical therapists, maybe even job trainings where they can learn a skill to help them become the best they can for their children.  Understanding the challenges that families face and helping them understand how these issues will impact their children is very important.  In order to be more effective in my advocacy efforts, I hope that I can gain a good understanding of how to inform the public about major issues that our young children and families face.  I also would like to learn how I can go about helping set up public policies that will benefit not only children and families but public interests as well.