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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 Take Action 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 helped to organize NAEYC's CEASE/Violence in the Lives of Children Interest Forum, which sponsors an Annual Seminar at NAEYC Conferences.  The Interest Forum also is present at a table in the Conference's Interest Forum Cafe'.  CEASE and the Interest Forum hold their annual meetings jointly following the Interest Forum's Annual Seminar.  In its collective actions CEASE acts independently of the Interest Forum and NAEYC, and does not speak for NAEYC.  Similarly, NAEYC through its Interest Forum and otherwise does not speak for CEASE.  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.

CEASE's Executive Committee consists of members Lucy Stroock, Chris Lamm, John Surr, and Sharon Davisson.

CEASE is honored to list among its sponsors the following leaders in the early childhood profession: Betty Burkes of WILPF, Nancy Carlsson-Paige of Lesley College; Eleanor Duckworth of Harvard; Mark Ginsberg, of George Mason University; Diane Levin of Wheelock College; Kathy McGinnis of the Institute for Peace and Justice; Bonnie and Roger Neugebauer of the World Forum Foundation and Exchange Magazine; Kathy Thornburg of the Center for Family Policy & Research; and Diane Trister-Dodge of Teaching Strategies, Inc. We turn to these sponsors for advice, not money.

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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.

CEASE is a project of the Survival Education Fund
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