My Personal Advocacy Journey

“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.” Albert Einstein

I'm inspired to become an advocate because I understand that every young child deserves a chance to have a quality education. I'm excited to have found out that although one can do very little to convince congress that an early education is important; it hasn't prevented many advocates from lobbying on behalf of the poor and low-income families.

The challenges that I will probably continue to face are with the families who would like their young children to attend school but cannot afford to do so because they do not qualify for childcare subsidies and/or they are over income for Head Start.

The Advocacy Action Plan can only be effective if I am able to implement it so that others become passionate about its importance. I would have to find the additional time and resources to collect important data that will support the interest of my plan.  The research, timelines, history and etc. has to be true of facts and support realistic goals.

My belief is that we all have a least one thing that we would like to change or improve in our profession.  Our young children cannot speak on their own behalf.  As Einstein stated, “the imagination embraces the entire world.”  We should become advocates knowing that it all begins with the Imagination.