Alliance for Children's Principles

• All children and youth should have access to affordable preventive health care, early diagnostic and intervention services, and comprehensive health care that includes prenatal and perinatal care; medical care; dental services; and comprehensive emotional, mental health and substance abuse diagnosis, family service and treatment.
  
  
• All children and youth should have safe homes, schools and communities, be free from crime, and have access to a seamless web of child and family services that protect children and foster healthy family development; be protected from psychological, sexual and/or physical abuse, neglect, abduction and family and community violence; and be informed on how to keep their homes and communities safe.
  
  
• All children and youth should receive a full, quality education that includes access to adequately funded public education, early childhood education and higher technical education.
  
  
• All children and youth should have adequate housing, food and clothing.
  
  
• All children and youth should have a flexible and accessible continuum of family and child support services that includes a full range of child care programs, including year-round and time-flexible programming and before and after school care; and a full range of recreational activities for children of varying interests, e.g., athletic, cultural and social activities.