about vote for kids!

Vote for Kids! is a public awareness campaign designed to inform California voters where congressional candidates stand on key children's issues in the upcoming election. It is also intended to provide California Congressional candidates with a briefing on the issues.

The Children's Partnership launched Vote for Kids! to ensure that important California children's issues are addressed by the next administration and Congress. Voters want politicians to act for kids. For example, 81 percent of California voters support ensuring that all children in California have health insurance. Vote for Kids! is an effort to give candidates a chance to stand up for kids and let voters know about it.

The Children's Partnership has sent all of the California congressional candidates questionnaires asking them how they would ensure every child has health insurance, how they would use health information technology to benefit children, and how they would use technology to increase children's 21st Century skills. Vote for Kids! will publish candidates' responses online to show voters their candidates stand on these critical children's issues.

The candidate questionnaire, candidate response form, and other resources Vote for Kids! sent to candidates are available for download.

Vote for Kids! is funded by First Focus, a bipartisan advocacy organization committed to making children and families a priority in federal policy and budget decisions, as part of its Children in Focus Project.

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