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     STATE OF RHODE ISLAND

IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY

JANUARY SESSION, A.D. 2014

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S E N A T E   R E S O L U T I O N

CELEBRATING AND CONGRATULATING RHODE ISLAND KIDS COUNT ON THE

OCCASION OF ITS 20TH ANNIVERSARY

     Introduced By: Senators Pichardo, Paiva Weed, Metts, Algiere, and Lombardi

     Date Introduced: May 08, 2014

     Referred To: Recommended for Immediate Consideration

     WHEREAS, Herbert Hoover, our country's 31st President, once stated, "Children are our

most valuable resource"; and

     WHEREAS, This year marks the twentieth year of advocacy for Rhode Island children

through the efforts of Rhode Island KIDS COUNT, "a statewide children's policy and advocacy

organization dedicated to improving the health, education, economic wellbeing, and safety of

Rhode Island's children"; and

     WHEREAS, Rhode Island KIDS COUNT "provides independent, credible,

comprehensive information on Rhode Island's children" and "uses that information to change or

influence public policies and programs to improve children's lives"; and

     WHEREAS, The information compiled by RI KIDS COUNT is backed by the best and

most current research and data available; and

     WHEREAS, The RI KIDS COUNT Factbook provides a collection of data detailing the

wellbeing of our state's children and illuminating the need for children's welfare to be a critical

part of the state’s future economic investment strategy; and

     WHEREAS, The organization also encourages collaboration from a panoply of people

and groups from across the community, including parents, volunteers, religious leaders, child

advocates, doctors, educators, directors of state agencies, and nonprofit leaders in order to find

and implement the best solutions to problems facing the state's children and families; and

     WHEREAS, For the past two decades Rhode Island KIDS COUNT has been helping to

build a brighter future for our state's children and the organization is eminently deserving of our

gratitude and recognition; and

     RESOLVED, That this Senate of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations

hereby congratulates Rhode Island KIDS COUNT on the occasion of its 20th Anniversary and

celebrates 20 years of effective advocacy for Rhode Island's children; and be it further

     RESOLVED, That the Secretary of State be and hereby is authorized and directed to

transmit a duly certified copy of this resolution to Rhode Island KIDS COUNT Executive

Director Elizabeth Burke Bryant.

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