Nominate A Champion for Families

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"Learn the Signs. Act Early." announces Champions for Families Spotlights Please help us launch this effort by sending this announcement and nomination links through your networks and encouraging families to nominate their family champion!¡ÈLearn the Signs. Act Early.¡É announces a new project to highlight the importance of early awareness and identification efforts through the experiences of individual families.These spotlights will provide an opportunity to recognize individuals who demonstrate the importance of acting early through diverse voices and perspectives (family member, early educator, health care professional) and to develop a resource of ¡Æfamily stories¡Ç that may be useful to state policy and advocacy activities and in presentations to a variety of audiences.Over the past years, ¡ÈLearn the Signs. Act Early.¡ÉPartner Spotlights have presented the work of dedicated partners and campaign champions who support the campaign goals of early awareness and identification. Champions for Families Spotlights will recognize individuals nominated by families. Each Spotlight will focus on the child and family, describing how the Champion helped the family learn the signs and act early.Champions for Families nominations can be submitted by completing a simple nomination form. Information about Champions for Families and the nomination form are posted on the campaign website at www.cdc.gov/actearly as a downloadable PDF for fax or mail submission.For more information, check out the links below or contact Cheryl at crhodes1@....Note that Spanish versions of both documents will be posted soon. Cheryl A. , M.S. LMFTAUCD-CDC Fellow for Learn the Signs. Act Early.Prevention Research BranchDivision of Birth Defects and Developmental DisabilitiesNCBDDD ¨¢ CDCPhone: Fax: C1@... Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. "Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way."-Abraham Lincoln ________________________________