ABOUT

Early Learning PA (ELPA) is a broad-based coalition that advocates access to voluntary, high-quality early learning opportunities for all Pennsylvania children. ELPA’s public policy agenda focuses on four key components of early learning opportunities: pre-kindergarten, child care, home visitation, and early intervention. The ELPA coalition supports targeted campaigns dedicated to advancing its early learning agenda.

OUR MISSION

Early Learning PA’s mission is to secure, by 2020, adequate resources to ensure all Pennsylvania’s children and families have access to voluntary, high-quality early learning opportunities that capitalize on a child’s most rapid period of brain development – birth to age 5.

PARTNERS

Early Learning PA’s coalition leadership includes the following organizations:

Delaware Valley Association for the Education of Young Children

Fight Crime: Invest in Kids Pennsylvania

Mission: Readiness Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania Association for the Education of Young Children

Pennsylvania Child Care Association

Pennsylvania Head Start Association

Pennsylvania Partnerships for Children

Pittsburgh Association for the Education of Young Children

Public Citizens for Children and Youth