If the lead agency was predetermined it might help award off an administrative accountability problems and that it should be the state's job to provide resources and assessment criteria to plan and coordinate with what is happening at the local level. Include unmet needs for children birth to age 3. As the most helpless beings of all humanity and the most under-represented citizens we have, it is a fundamental obligation that all children be raised in a safe, warm, nurturing home and community. Children have a right to live in a safe haven, free from physical and psychological mistreatment. Children must be protected from violence and abuse, be provided proper nutrition, given unlimited love, and be encouraged to pursue life in as ambitious a way as possible.
Children deserve to have the constant and loving attention of their parents.
Parents give birth to children and must accept all the responsibility this act carries. Quality care must be available when the parents are unable to provide personal care. Parents must fashion a quality environment by relying on an appropriate mix of personal, family, community and government agency support. A healthy mind depends on a healthy body. Our children have a right to comprehensive health care that includes prevention, early detection and intervention, and treatment when ill.