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The Organization:

CEASE is a membership organization, and we encourage you to join us at a low annual dues rate.  We also encourage donations of larger amounts.  CEASE is a project of the Survival Education Fund, an organization exempt from income taxes under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.  For tax purposes, donations to the Survival Education Fund designated for CEASE may be deducted from income as charitable contributions.

CEASE is an organization of activists, working to further our purposes. See CEASE Acts! to find out what we do.

CEASE has its public activities mostly at the Annual NAEYC Conferences, because they are the largest annual gatherings of the early childhood profession.  CEASE will be one of the first groups to establish an NAEYC Interest Forum, which now sponsors the annual seminar that CEASE puts together for the Conferences.  CEASE has an annual meeting each year open to the public at the NAEYC Annual Conference, immediately following the seminar.  In 2009 that annual meeting was a celebration of our 30 years of action for children.  Every year at its seminar CEASE confers its annual Peace Awards to people connected with young children who have made extraordinary contributions to the peace that they need in which to grow.  CEASE members also participate in other workshops and activities at NAEYC’s Annual Conference. 
        In recent years, CEASE also has been present in NAEYC’s Interest Forum Lounge, where we can have one-on-one contact with Conference participants as they pass by.  In some years CEASE has conducted public demonstrations at the Conference on issues of major concern, such as the war in Iraq.  In other years we have circulated petitions to the NAEYC management and Governing Board, as we did in 2008 concerning the establishment of a media track for future NAEYC Conferences.
        Since 1979, CEASE has been attending some NAEYC Governing Board meetings, seeking to raise consciousness and bring the leadership of the early childhood profession into a more activist stance toward the common public issues that face young children as they grow up.  We have communicated our specific concerns to the management and Governing Board through a variety of action documents.

CEASE also is represented at some events of the World Forum on Early Care & Education (www.childcareexchange.com/wf).  We are represented on the General Committee of the Campaign to Ratify the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. (www.childrightscampaign.org). CEASE is represented at the conferences of California AEYC, especially in its Center for Social Change.  CEASE members also participate actively in Non-Violence in the Lives of Children (www.nvpchildren.org)

Between NAEYC Conferences CEASE is managed by a consensus of its active members, who also meet every summer for an annual retreat.  Other CEASE activities occur between national gatherings as well, both in the Boston area and in Northern California.

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For membership information and more on CEASE goals and activities go to our Contact Us page.

CEASE is a member-supported, volunteer organization. We hope you will join us on our Membership,
and learn more about how you get involved on our Take Action Page.