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The West Steps — 100 episodes
Bilingual Child Care Licensing is About More Than a License
What Colorado Can Do in 2024 to Improve Perinatal Health
What Does It Mean to Center Kids in Colorado’s School Funding Formula?
How a Family Affordability Tax Credit Could Cut Child Poverty in Half
Kids Are Losing Health Coverage at an Alarming Rate
Could a $1500 Tax Credit Make a Difference for the Caring Economy?
Out-of-School Programs Are Facing a Funding Cliff: What Can Colorado Do?
Colorado Needs Better Data About Evictions
The Colorado Children's Campaign 2024 legislative preview: Part 2
The Colorado Children's Campaign 2024 legislative preview: Part 1
Our 2023 legislative session wrap up
How is Colorado working to improve school safety?
The Braidwood ruling: What does it mean for Colorado?
The Children's Campaign’s mid-session update
The importance of play in early childhood
What you need to know about Healthy School Meals for All
Now is the time to invest in Colorado’s Family Planning Program
Keeping Colorado kids covered in 2023 and beyond
Access to justice: How we can improve eviction court proceedings in Colorado
The Colorado Children's Campaign 2023 legislative preview
2022 legislative session wrap up
How will we cover all Coloradans in 2022? Part 2
Now is the time to correct Colorado’s inequitable school funding system
What is rulemaking and how does it impact kids and families in Colorado?
Centering school climate in K-12 education
Elevating provider voice as HB22-1295 moves through the legislature
Now is the time to improve maternal health care in Colorado
How will HB22-1259 impact Colorado families living in extreme poverty?
Capitol Update – What has happened in the first third of the 2022 legislative session?
What is TANF and why does it need to change?
How will we cover all Coloradans in 2022?
How Colorado hopes to combat food insecurity among students
Educator Tax Credit Explained
How will we improve maternal health data collection in 2022?
Colorado legislatures are back in session and so are we with season four of The West Steps
EP 5 : Conversations on early care and education in Colorado
EP 4 : Conversations on early care and education in Colorado
EP 3: Conversations on early care and education in Colorado
EP 2: Conversations on early care and education in Colorado
EP 1: Conversations on early care and education in Colorado
After over 600 bills, the 2021 Colorado legislative session ends with massive wins for kids and families
Colorado Supreme Court issues affirmative ruling on a bill to fix our K-12 property tax system and here is what you need to know
What we get wrong about maternal behavioral health
Colorado reimagines early childhood education with a new state agency
Colorado Public Option Health Benefit Plan Breakdown
Birth equity takes center stage
What you have always wanted to know about diapers
What’s been happening at the Capitol?
How Colorado’s racist laws targeting immigrants are harming everyone
Statewide assessments--what are they and why should we talk more about them?
Solving our school funding formula
Let’s talk tax policy, but make it fun!
The state of reproductive justice in Colorado
What is advocacy and why should you care?
Hunger reaches an all-time high in Colorado
What is happening with child care in Colorado?
The Colorado General Assembly is back-- so are we
Returning to child care in a pandemic
Our individual actions to ensure Black Lives Matter
Digital divide erodes to new depths during pandemic
From flush to flat broke in two months
The humans behind the KIDS COUNT numbers
When policy collides with the personal in the delivery room
Tenuous connections to food
Nothing has ever been studied so quickly—and we are still in the dark
Voices from the inside
The census is too important to be stopped by a pandemic
Preventing the collapse of child care in Colorado
Public health is invisible—until things go wrong
Time to Eat
Pulse check on the legislative session
Student voices for school finance reform
A bridge to families in extreme poverty
Not every child has the choice to vaccinate
Are pediatricians the key to maternal mental health?
Little brains with big needs
Working parents can’t work without early childhood workers
J.V. Congress returns to Denver
Prop CC explained, with Speaker KC Becker
The West Steps Live at our Annual Luncheon 2019
The West Steps: Behind the scenes in investigating maternal deaths
A Network for Kids
Real results for kids
100 votes for moms
Family planning is future planning
Where credit is due
The largest mobilization of our federal government other than war
How to spend $30 billion
The funded non-mandate
The experience of speaking up
The solutions to child poverty are sitting on legislators’ desks
Why some children are criminalized, and some forgiven
The heart of advocacy
Unpacking school lunch (policy)
What it takes to testify
The short explanation of The Long Bill
The layers of school finance dysfunction explained
The mystery of maternal mortality in Colorado
The unexpected benefits of full-day kindergarten with Bill Jaeger
Introducing The West Steps with Riley Kitts