Sentences with phrase «increasing access to child care»

Ms. Furstenfeld's expertise is in the areas of increasing access to child care for foster families and relative caregivers, improving the quality and safety in child care, and advocating for fair business and zoning laws for family child care home providers.

Ms. Hegoda works on increasing access to child care by advocating for fair business and zoning laws for family child care home providers.

«We certainly applaud government's efforts on easing the burden of high housing costs and increasing access to child care, but in introducing a payroll tax to offset lost MSP premium revenues this Budget delivers another meaningful blow to small to medium employers, especially in the service and technology sectors,» adds Black.

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Schulman hopes that, armed with new federal funding to tackle these challenges, states will step up and begin filling the gaping holes in the American child care system — smoothing out the child care cliff while also making it easier for families access care in the first place, increasing the number of American kids who spend their days playing, coloring, building, and singing in a safe, caring environment their parents can actually afford.

Work with the Federal Government to explore the human capital benefits of increasing access to affordable child care; and

The every child deserves a family campaign promotes the best interests of all children in the foster care and adoption system by increasing their access to loving, stable, forever homes, and works to ensure safe and supportive care for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) youth seeking family formation.

For example, Early Head Start, which provides comprehensive services focusing on early learning experiences, health and nutritional status, social - emotional behavior, early intervention, and parent support, offers increased access to health care, well - child exams, immunizations, and screening tests for children enrolled in the program.

By eliminating state laws, policies, practices and procedures that exclude potential adoptive and foster parents because of their sexual orientation, gender identity, or marital status this bill will dramatically increase access to permanent, loving homes for children living in foster care.

The new programs are expected to increase college access and support degree completion by providing wraparound services for students such as child and elder care, transportation, health care services, family and / or employment counseling, legal aid, and more.

«All the main parties have given increasing recognition in recent years to the importance of investing in childcare - both the quantity of hours that allows parents to access work, and the quality of care that helps child development.»

The IDC would enhance the Facilitated Enrollment Child Care subsidy by increasing funding to $ 25 million and expanding eligibility to those within 400 percent of the Federal Poverty Line, which would increase access to a number of families, and serve approximately 2,571 additional children.

The report proposes a series of policy recommendations to close the wage gap, including launching statewide public education campaigns on the breadth of career opportunities, salary negotiation and financial literacy, expanding access to child care and family leave, increasing career mentoring for young women and improving data and transparency on job titles, pay and benefits.

«We now need to identify the factors responsible for increasing utilization overall and understand why some groups of children have accessed preventive dental care services more than others,» said Yun.

Indianapolis — The nation's chief state school officers last week endorsed a comprehensive early - childhood and family - education plan calling for universal access to prekindergarten programs, publicly supported day care, and increased federal involvement in efforts to help children at risk of school failure.

State and local investments are increasing in many states for early care and education programs, but in others, states are not investing sufficient dollars to ensure all children have access to high quality programs.

If immigrants are targeted, children whose parents are immigrants or who are immigrants themselves will live in fear of deportation.36 If Medicaid is cut, not only will it increase the number of uninsured children without access to needed medical care, but it will also put the jobs of thousands of school nurses, psychologists, and physical therapists at risk.37 This would hurt health outcomes for many children, especially those with disabilities.

(Calif.) In an effort to increase the number of foster youth who are not just college ready, but are actually prepared to enroll, a statewide campaign has been launched to ensure that children in foster care are accessing financial aid.

The Connecticut Association of School Based Health Centers is an advocacy and networking organization committed to increasing access to quality health care for all children and adolescents in Connecticut schools.

Read more about Bernie's record on affordable child care and increased access to education at our Public Assistance and Education issue pages.

He promoted the idea of meeting the needs of the whole child by expanding pre-kindergarten and after - school and summer programs, increasing access to health care and mental health services, and promoting nutritious food and regular exercise.

For example, such partnerships can force landlords to remediate poor housing conditions that aggravate a patient's asthma, increase access to care by helping patients establish eligibility for Medicaid, improve educational services for children with special needs, or help patients escape violent domestic situations.

We increase access to music therapy for patients in children's hospitals, senior's centres, palliative care, AIDS & HIV programs, at - risk youth, habilitation, and bereavement support.

The legislation will strengthen oversight of the province's unlicensed child care sector and increase access to licensed child care options for families.

This includes closing the gender pay gap, increasing access to affordable child care and tackling the poverty facing disadvantaged women including single mothers, Indigenous women, older women, women and girls with disabilities, and women facing domestic violence and sexual harassment in the workplace and community.

National Center for Children in Poverty, Project Thrive (www.nccp.org): The Public Policy Analysis and Education Center for Infants and Young Children at the National Center for Children in Poverty has as its core mission increasing knowledge and providing policy analysis that will help states build and strengthen comprehensive early childhood systems and link policies to ensure access to high - quality health care, early care and learning, and family support.

Invest in children's health and development by appropriately funding evidence - based programs, including Early Head Start and Head Start, Medicaid, CHIP, WIC, home visiting, SNAP, school meal programs and other programs that increase access to healthy food, and Child Care Development Block Grant — funded programs.

$ 162.5 million is pledged to increase operating funding across the child care system to reduce fees and increase overall child care access.

The investment will be distributed to increase access and reduce cost across the entire child care industry.

Cutting Violence and Cutting Prison Costs in Maine: Accessing Available Federal Funds to Provide Essential Health Care (PDF - 569 KB) Fight Crime: Invest in Kids Maine (2013) Offers information on how Maine has increased access to health screenings and treatment for people with mental and behavioral health challenges — including alcohol and other substance abuse problems for improved parent - child welfare.

Maine adopted a provision increasing access to lead screening at sites providing education or health care to low - income children.

The assumption for this estimate is that with far greater access to high - quality child care at an affordable cost, mothers with young children would increase their employment to the levels of mothers without young children for whom child care costs and availability of high - quality care is less of a limiting factor on mothers» employment relative to when they have younger children.

Moderate - income families are typically ineligible for these publicly funded programs, but at the same time, such families struggle to afford the high cost of care in the private sector.19 This leaves parents facing a series of difficult choices, including prioritizing child care expenses over other household necessities; settling for low - quality child care that fits their budget; patching together multiple informal care options; or leaving the workforce altogether.20 To ensure that all children can realize the gains that come from attending high - quality early childhood programs, policy solutions need to focus on improving program supports and creating funding strategies that will increase access to high - quality programs for children from all backgroundto afford the high cost of care in the private sector.19 This leaves parents facing a series of difficult choices, including prioritizing child care expenses over other household necessities; settling for low - quality child care that fits their budget; patching together multiple informal care options; or leaving the workforce altogether.20 To ensure that all children can realize the gains that come from attending high - quality early childhood programs, policy solutions need to focus on improving program supports and creating funding strategies that will increase access to high - quality programs for children from all backgroundTo ensure that all children can realize the gains that come from attending high - quality early childhood programs, policy solutions need to focus on improving program supports and creating funding strategies that will increase access to high - quality programs for children from all backgroundto focus on improving program supports and creating funding strategies that will increase access to high - quality programs for children from all backgroundto high - quality programs for children from all backgrounds.

Gov. Inslee's plan also includes significant funding around increasing access to preschool programs for children from low - income families; funding for programs for children with special needs and to increase the number of families receiving home visiting services; and continued funding for programs designed to improve quality in child care.

Under the Exceed initiative, funded through the federal Race to the Top - Early Learning Challenge grant, RIDE and partner agencies - the Departments of Health, Human Services, and Children, Youth and Families; the Office of Health and Human Services; and Rhode Island KIDS COUNT - are involved in an on - going initiative to increase access to early - learning programs and to improve program quality in public preschools, child - care centers, and family home - care centers.

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The QIN designated three nonprofits, United Planning Organization, CentroNia, and Mary's Center, as hubs to support home - and center - based child development providers across the city to increase access and enhance the quality of infant and toddler care.

In our program and policy work, NBCDI supports federal, state and local efforts to provide increasing numbers of low - income children with access to quality early education and care; efforts to create a strong and supported early childhood workforce; and efforts to promote developmentally and culturally - appropriate standards, curriculum, instruction and assessment that are aligned within and across the early childhood to early grades continuum.

Availability and access — increasing the participation of children in existing child care and early childhood education programs, including outreach to underrepresented and special populations

For example, Early Head Start, which provides comprehensive services focusing on early learning experiences, health and nutritional status, social - emotional behavior, early intervention, and parent support, offers increased access to health care, well - child exams, immunizations, and screening tests for children enrolled in the program.

These outcomes are to: increase access to prenatal care, reduce smoking during pregnancy and afterward; prevent child abuse and neglect, increase parent knowledge of early childhood development, strengthen the home environment; increase access to medical home; increase family support; and increase community connectedness.

The most recent Missouri KIDS COUNT state page indicates more than 7 % of Missouri's children are not covered by health insurance, which can slow access to health care providers and services, increasing the risk for these children of negative outcomes from the flu and other conditions.

The tax credit to providers is designed to increase access to quality care for low income children.

Raising public awareness about the scope and serious impact of child traumatic stress is central to raising the standard of care and increasing access to quality services for traumatized children and their families.

«Increasing access to high - quality early education, including child care, Pre-K, and Head Start, will help give all students — especially low - income students, including Latino and African American students, the support they need to arrive at school ready for success.,» continued Bryant.

The overall goal in reauthorization is to increase CCDF child care access, provide greater protection for child health and safety, and improve quality of care.

To examine whether state child care subsidy policies can combine goals of increasing maternal employment and increasing access to quality child care for children in low - income families, the research team studied one state's comprehensive policy, through a cross-sectional survey of 665 randomly selected families using centers, Head Start programs, family child care homes, public school preschools, or informal care, including a sample of families on the waitlist for child care subsidieTo examine whether state child care subsidy policies can combine goals of increasing maternal employment and increasing access to quality child care for children in low - income families, the research team studied one state's comprehensive policy, through a cross-sectional survey of 665 randomly selected families using centers, Head Start programs, family child care homes, public school preschools, or informal care, including a sample of families on the waitlist for child care subsidieto quality child care for children in low - income families, the research team studied one state's comprehensive policy, through a cross-sectional survey of 665 randomly selected families using centers, Head Start programs, family child care homes, public school preschools, or informal care, including a sample of families on the waitlist for child care subsidies.

Distributions from the fund will target proven strategies to strengthen parenting skills, increase the quality of early care and education and assist families with accessing that quality care and education for their young children.

• All Families have access to early care and education programs that are affordable and of high quality, and are participants in the education and well being of their children through family involvement in programs and schools, as well as opportunities to increase their educational attainment.

As the Policy Fellow, Natalie advocates for programs and policies that recognize family child care as a critical component of an early care and education system, increase access to early learning opportunities for all children, and support the early childhood workforce.

Earlier, Spiker was the principal investigator of the evaluation of the Saint Paul Early Childhood Scholarship Pilot Program for the Minnesota Early Learning Foundation, an innovative market - based early childhood model to increase the access to and quality of preschool and child care programs for children living in low - income neighborhoods.