The Iowa Association for the Education of Young Children works to build public awareness about early childhood and early childhood issues through advocacy and outreach.  

Priority #1. Each and every child will have access to a quality care and education program.

• Create widespread community and family education initiatives to increase awareness of the important relationship between quality settings and children's developmental growth.
• Create widespread community awareness of the connection between quality care and education and workforce needs, especially in our rural areas.

Priority #2. A diverse early care and education workforce will be appropriately educated, fairly compensated, respected, and valued.

• Support successful implementation of the CCDF (federal Child Care Development Fund from the Child Care and Development Block Grand) plan to ensure programs are both regulated and supported and the teaching staff is appropriately educated and compensated.
• Create new and innovative policies to increase racial, ethnic, gender, and linguistic diversity of our early learning workforce to best serve the diverse needs of Iowa families.