Action Alerts! 1. Child Care: Congress is back in session and Democrats and Republicans are beginning to negotiate the final year –end federal spending bill. Democratic Senators have proposed an increase of $2.9 billion which would double the discretionary funding for CCDBG (Child Care Development Block Grant) . […]
P.E.A.C.E. News for December 2017
Action Alerts! We need to get in touch with our Senators to get them to pass the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) Reauthorization Bill, S.1827, as soon as possible. The CHIP program expired at the end of September, and many States are running out of money to help young children […]
September – P.E.A.C.E. News
Congress! Now that Congress is back at work, please do call or email (preferably through the Senator’s or Representative’s website) about these action messages for legislators: Please work to keep the Government open at least for the rest of 2017. In your Budget decisions, please increase domestic discretionary spending on […]
Annual Peace Award Recipients
PEACE Awards are presented at the NAEYC National Conference to an individual or group dedicated to creating a safe, healthy world for children
NAEYC – Past Seminars
In 1979, at the NAEYC Conference in Atlanta, Peggy Schirmer and others founded P.E.A.C.E. (Formerly C.E.A.S.E., 2014) as a network of parents, teachers and other concerned individuals dedicated to creating a safe world for children. P.E.A.C.E. Workshops and Seminars at NAEYC 1981 “Nuclear Radiation, Our Children’s Legacy” 1983 “Nuclear Anxiety […]
2015 P.E.A.C.E. Annual Leadership Retreat
This year, the annual retreat in the Leadership of P.E.A.C.E was held in Truro, Massachusetts. Our main discussion this year evolved around the question, “Who are we now AND what are we doing?” We spent time on listening to the different perspectives and needs we see in the communities surrounding […]
2014 NAEYC Conference Session
This year, our CEASE session “Sensitive Issues: Responses teachers need when children reveal realities experienced in their lives” was well attended. Our presenters Craig Simpson, Joyce Daniels, Marilyn Shelton, Veronica Hernandez, Lucy Stroock, and Karin Pavelek were inspired to present this subject by using our own classroom experiences. We proposed […]
CEASE Annual Peace Awards
We honored Geralyn B McLaughlin and Tony Palomba for their dedication and commitment to CEASE.