What is the Child Watch Visitation Program?

....11:MilwaukeeShalala says children need advocacyBy JAN UEBELHERRSentinel slall wrllerVntll children become little ac·tlvlSIS, they need groups like MilwaukeeChild Watch to work asIhelr advucates, University IlfWisconsin Syslell1 ChancellorDonna Shalaln said Thursday,Shalala, who is the new chair·'man of Ihe Children's DefenseFund, a nulional non-profit orga·nlzatlon, made Ihe remarks duroIng a reception at the SilverSpring Neighborhood Center af·ter a bus tour of child heallhprogram slles In Milwaukee.Shalala told the crowd of about40 that she took over the post,from ~llIIary Clinton, wUe ofOemocratlc presidential candl·date Dill Clinton, when Mrs. Clin·ton "decided to go oU and run forpresident with her husband."Several state legislators andcandidates also went on the tour,which slarled at the center andIncluded stops at the 51. Joseph'sHospital Neonatal Intensive CareUnit and Rosalie Manor, whichoUered a presentation on Its Sup·porting First·Time Parents program.Milwaukee Child Watch Is aprogram of the Children's De·fense Fund that Involves 13 agen·cles."Children don't contribute topolitical campaigns. They're not abig lobby In this country," saidShalala, who has been Involvedwith the Children's Defense Fundfor 20 years.She said she has been askedwhy she spends so much time onan organization that deals withchildren, when her career hasbeen devoted to working withstudents at colleges and unlversl·ties."There won't be a Universityof Wisconsin - Madison ... IfNews & RGreensboCHILD ADVOCATES TEACH BY EXAMPLEThese lobbyists are too young tovot• Mer a campaign season of "chil.dren's issues," political candidates""ere introduced to .:.... the thildren,By JUSTIN CATANOSOStaffWriUT.. The congre8slonal candidate held 4·y.ear-old Jennifer In his arms during abreak from her actlvlty at Project UpliftI'D Greensboro. He asked h~r name; sbeonly sOOled bashfully.."Jennifer Is one of five chUdren In herl'lunlly," said Angella Faison, Who directsihe project's chUd development center."Her mother Is 22 years old." 'More than 20 Guilford County candidatesfor local, state and natlonal office -men and women who Invariably BPeak outfor governmental support of children ...;.,, came' face to face with their campalgu, ,rhetoric Monday> 'morning.The two·hour· program, caUed CbildView '92, was designed to Introjluce fu·ture policy makers to those directly atfected' bY~blic·POllcY:'·de8pel· tely IIIInfants In th neonatallntensl,e are unitat the Wom n's Hospital and un erprlYi·leged chU n at"ProJect Uplift· ,"Unless ypu see It ftntband; you never'really feel .. part of It or undel'lltand It,",AllanBlsofthe N.C. ChUd~vocaC)Instltute tol the candid.ates, wh E:epeatedlywe", minded df the state dismalInfant mo Ity and Ichool dro ut rlltes.The prolram's 'baslc thetde: thattimely, prudllnt governmentallnyestment" ,'In family and child programs' IIeffectlve., For example, It costs $700 to prprenatal care to a poor woman; intecare costs alone can run $22,000baby Is born early and unhealthy,"• Robin Britt, a former U.8. represtive from Greensboro who foundedject Uplift, told candidates: "Weafford not to Intervene In the Uthese children. If we don't' takemeasures, we'create. permanent uclass of adulta who won't be able tjobs and who wW be a burden on soCChUd VIew '92 was coordinated bChildren's Defense Fund In Washiwhich ll81S North Carolina as onestates It Is t~eting t.o press pollfor support of children's Issues.