CCNBEE is building awareness, community, and is participating in National movement for outdoor preschools in collaboration with other organizations. Colorado has the opportunity to partner other states in pioneering outdoor nature-based early education programs. Although every state will look a little different, organizations such as The Washington Nature Preschool Association (WaNPA) in Washington, and Outdoor Early Learning Alliance of Oregon (OELAO) in Oregon are models for the ways we can organize the work in our state. The Willamette Partnership has created The Outdoor Preschool Policy Action Framework "to support advocates across the nation in taking the actions necessary to ensure outdoor learning programs can be licensed, thereby increasing access to high-quality outdoor and nature-based learning and taking an important step in addressing issues of equity in education and the outdoors."

Continuing the work

Advocacy and systems work are an on-going process to continually learn from the people in our communities, and make valuable change. We at CCNBEE have advocacy as a main part of our work, because we see the inequity families face and want to be an active part in progress.  It takes all of us!