Advocacy
Partnership for Food Safety Education
We advance our mission of empowering health and food safety educators with the tools, resources, and support needed and seek to drive lasting change in food safety practices by serving extension, nutrition, food industry, government, consumer groups, and other sectors disseminating food safety education with the consumer as the end user in the United States through collaborative problem solving, program development and implementation, and sharing resources and emphasizing our competitive advantage of empowering health and food safety educators, being a trusted voice on consumer food safety practices, and our ability to bridge sectors to create unified action. We are sustainable by our collaborative partnerships.
National Association for Family Child Care (NAFCC)
Through a teaching roster of professional ensembles and solo musicians of the highest caliber, Musicopia helps Pre-K-12th grade students explore and develop their musical interests, learn to play an instrument, and perform alongside enthusiastic peers through in-school assemblies, workshops, and residencies, and long-term ensembles including the after-school Musicopia String Orchestras and Musicopia Drumlines. Fostering Artistry and Musical Excellence (FAME) instruction provides year-round musical instrument and ensemble coaching. With a goal to inspire a love of music within children that will last a lifetime, Musicopia’s programs represent musical styles and traditions from around the world including classical, jazz, Latin, African, Brazilian, Middle Eastern, opera, hip hop, rock/pop and others.
Pennsylvania Child Care Association (PACCA)
The Pennsylvania Child Care Association (PACCA), a statewide non-profit organization, exists to be a strong and effective advocate for high-quality early care and education (ECE) programs, and to give leadership and support to those organizations that assist the ECE community, families, and children in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC)
NAFCC supports and leverages a nationwide network of providers and partners in expanding and promoting the power of family child care, by connecting practice, policy, and research. We promote quality reflective of diverse, dynamic early childhood professionals and support all who care for, educate, and work on behalf of young children in home-based settings.