"Who Speaks for America's Children? is a valuable resource for anyone interested in creating effective strategies for child advocacy. Beyond cataloging current organizational efforts, it also identifies previous successful strategies, both elite-initiated and populist-based. It suggests important directions for the future organization of a successful child advocacy movement and targets the need to focus on critical and overarching issues that can engage parents in improving all children's lives."
—John R. Burbank
Executive Director, Economic Opportunity Institute
"It pains me greatly that the progress for children's issues is so awfully slow. Who Speaks for America's Children? makes it clear why that is so; even more important, here's a valuable book that makes it clear what we need to do and how to do it."
—David Lawrence Jr.
President, The Early Childhood Initiative Foundation
"For years those who studied interest groups and public policy resolutely ignored the organizations that work on behalf of children. Thanks to this collection of outstanding essays, we now know a lot more about child advocacy. Who Speaks for America’s Children? is an important book."
—Jeffrey M. Berry
Tufts University
Who Speaks for America's Children? The Role of Child Advocates in Public Policy, edited by Carol J. De Vita and Rachel Mosher-Williams, is available in paperback from the Urban Institute Press (6" x 9", 236 pages, ISBN 978-0-87766-704-9, $26.50).
