Advocacy is Action 2025

Advocacy is Action is NAFCC’s annual campaign mobilizing family child care educators, allies, and advocates to drive real policy change during the Congressional recess. Beginning August 11, 2025, educators across the country will rise in unified action to protect and strengthen the future of family child care.

This year’s campaign comes at a turning point. Family child care continues to be squeezed out of the system, despite being the backbone of early care in rural, multilingual, and underserved communities. With nearly 100,000 FCC programs lost since 2012, and more closures looming, the stakes are higher than ever.

Many Right Ways to Advocate

Starting August 11, join the movement wherever you are:

1. Contact Your Members of Congress
   Use the NAFCC Action Center to find your Senators and Representatives.
2. Send a Letter
   Use our templates or write your own to share your story. Your experiences make the strongest case for change.
3. Mobilize Locally
   FCC educators and supporters will host congressional meetings in Virginia, California, Florida, Connecticut, Wisconsin, Texas, Massachusetts, Washington, North Carolina and Tennessee.
4. Spread the Word
   Use social media, share with your networks, and amplify the campaign using #AdvocacyIsAction. Every voice matters.
5. Host a We Are Family Child Care Documentary Watch Party
   • Sample discussion questions – Coming soon!
   • Tips for engaging attendees – Coming soon!
6. Become a Member
   • Stay connected with your peers
   • Help grow the movement by joining NAFCC today
7. Text to Give
   • Support NAFCC’s ongoing advocacy work with a monetary contribution
   • Every gift helps protect and advance the future of family child care
   • Details coming soon.
8. Visit Our Policy Website
   Explore research and data, advocacy tools, policy bulletins, and more to support your work and stay informed. Our policy website is your hub for resources that strengthen family child care advocacy.

This Is About Survival and Justice

If Congress fails to act, more FCC programs will disappear. More families will lose access to care. And the most flexible, community-based, culturally rooted form of early education will edge closer to extinction.

But if we act together—loudly, clearly, and persistently—we can change the future.

Join us beginning August 11, 2025. Advocacy is Action, and we won’t be ignored.

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