About Advocacy

We are here to help you! Contact the Public Policy & Advocacy team to get assistance in person or over the phone. We can help you prepare for legislative meetings, provide customized trainings, and much more.

Some examples of issues we work on:

• Access, quality and affordability of child care for working families
• Maintaining and increasing child care and early education budgets
• Advancing professional development for the early care and education field
• Improving licensing standards for child care programs

Some of our recent victories include:

• $169.4 million in increases to the Child Care Assistance Program (CCAP) from FY2004-FY2009
• Fighting back budget cuts proposed for the CCAP in FY2009 and 2010
• Established Preschool for All in 2006 and made the program permanent in 2010
• Increased CCAP income eligibility guidelines to 200 percent of the Federal Poverty Level
• Increases to CCAP provider reimbursement rates
• Implementing a new Quality Rating System for child care providers
• $192.4 million in increases to the Early Childhood Block Grant (funding for the Prevention Initiative and Preschool for All programs) from FY2004-FY2009
• Established dedicated funding for early childhood facilities through the state capital program