Arizona Child Care Association and local Early Care and Education Consortium members are raising public awareness of the devastating impact of the State child care turn-away list and asking elected official to restore child care funding for parents wanting to work, children needing safe and stimulating care, and child care providers who serve low income families.
In the current environment in our state, it is easy for the impact of one program to get lost among higher profile issues getting media attention. Yet, the longer families wait, the more it hurts parents, children, and child care providers. Over the past 15 months, 13,000 children in qualified low income working families have been denied. The denials will continue for another 13 months or longer unless the Governor or legislature acts to restore the child care subsidy.
The Early Care and Education Consortium has developed a video message that shows the impact of the waiting list, which you can view here. Click here to watch the Restore Child Care video.
Yesterday the Arizona Child Care Association sent letters to the Governor and legislators asking for the immediate restoration of child care subsidies for Arizona’s low-income working families.
You can click to send your own message to Governor Brewer Send Your Message
and your legislators Send Your Message
The email messages have been prepared, but you can change them to make the messages more personal from you. The message to Legislators begins “I am a child care provider in your district. Every day I see the good that we do and every day I see how much more we are needed” so be sure to customize your introduction.
Visit www.azcca.org for more information.
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