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VOICES FOR CHILDREN OF SAN ANTONIO began its work in 1996 under the leadership of Marian Sokol and ANY BABY CAN. With a small grant from the U.S. Bureau of Maternal and Child Health to develop a “children’s agenda” for San Antonio, a series of ‘breakfast briefings’ convened stakeholders to hear expert testimony in the areas of Abuse & Neglect, Basic Needs, Early Care & Education, and Health Care.

In an effort to synthesize, prioritize, and address those many issues, we held our first “Congress on Children” in 1997 with nearly 150 ‘service providers’ and other concerned citizens attending. From that gathering, Task Forces were created and victories in those early years included the passage of the Children’s Health Insurance Program in Texas and fluoridation of the public water supply in San Antonio.

In 2001 we incorporated as a 501c3 nonprofit organization with the mission to make young children’s issues a priority in the San Antonio community.
Over the years we have built our network of stakeholders to a database of over a thousand individuals from over 400 organizations who we communicate with regularly. Many of them participate in ongoing meetings to examine and prioritize policies and practices and organize ourselves to advocate for change at many levels.

VOICES’ work centers around three types of activity:

• Research
  We convene stakeholders, experts in various arenas of interest, to identify issues to be addressed to improve outcomes for children. These may be public policies or programmatic practices.
• Advocacy
  We organize those stakeholders to develop recommendations that we advance to policy makers. In the programmatic area, we serve as a catalyst for collaboration, working for more effective service delivery.
• Messaging
  We work to frame clear and consistent messages that convey the wisdom of investing early in human capital development. Research supports that the pre-school years, birth to about age five, offer the richest opportunity to lay a positive foundation for a lifetime of fulfillment.

Position Opening
External Communications Coordinator

VOICES is looking for an External Communications Coordinator with proven expertise in the areas of marketing, media, communications and a passion for the issues that impact the children in our community.

For more information follow this link: External Communications Coordinator

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