EARLY CHILDHOOD SYSTEMS: 6765

What Resonates With You About Early Childhood Public Policy and Advocacy? Early Childhood Systems. For most of my years in the career field I always find myself advocating for something. My love for early childhood began when I started having children but my passion intensified when I landed a job with the Early Childhood Commission as an early childhood inspector. My eyes were opened to a myriad of things within the early childhood. There are so many issues and challenges. I believe advocacy is the way to go to help with dealing with these issues and challenges. My first career love was law but unfortunately I was not afforded the opportunity to explore this field. I believe early childhood advocacy is the closest to thing to law. I don’t think we have enough persons in Jamaica who are advocating for changes in the early childhood field. Advocacy for the demands passion but you must also be knowledgeable. Advocates are so crucial in the field of early childhood. To become a skilled advocate you must be properly informed. Like any other career or profession we need to be armed with the knowledge to help to create positive changes. Early childhood is foundation to almost everything that we do. Can you imagine if we had an untrained dentist in our mouths are a surgeon who has absolutely no idea about surgery. Well early childhood is just as important as any other profession. I hope to learn how to become a skillful advocate. Anything that has to do with change is not easily accomplished, especially when culture forms the framework upon which persons live their lives. Three goals I hope to accomplish at the end of the course is 1) How to initiate changes that will impact the early childhood field. 2) To become a skillful advocate. 3) To promote awareness for early childhood and educate various stakeholders on the importance of having the right start at the early childhood level.