As we move forward in the budget process it is important to continue with our efforts to educate the Legislature and the Governor on the impacts of the FY2012-13 Budget child care proposals on families, children, providers, and the community. We have gathered a variety of resources, including talking points, samples of letters to legislative representatives and media coverage from R&R agencies, as well as an advocacy tool kit that can assist in sharing the impacts in your area. If you have other materials and resources you would like to share, please email them to Carlise King at carlise@rrnetwork.org.
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Upcoming Budget Hearings
-Assembly Budget on Health and Human Services (2/29): Actions
-Joint Assembly Budget Committee Hearing Actions (3/14): Actions
Summary of Child Care Budget Cuts
-Child Care Cuts Summary (1-page) 2012-2013 January Budget
-Child Care Cuts Summary (2-page) 2012-2013 January Budget
-Sacramento County Budget Cut Impacts
-Solano County Impact of Proposed Budget Changes
-Butte County Budget Cut Impacts
How to Take Action
Many of the materials below are in PDF format, if you need it in a Word format please contact Carlise King at carlise@rrnetwork.org.
Contact your representative
-Send advocacy alert to the Governor and your representative
-Encourage parents and providers to call their legislators. You can fill in the contact information of your specific legislators prior to distributing to parents/providers: Parent script (English/Spanish/Chinese)
-Find your representative
Get involved with your local Parent Voices chapter: www.parentvoices.org
The following items can be collected by your agency and delivered to your legislators' district and Capitol offices, submitted at budget hearings, or you can mail them to Mary Ignatius (mignatius@rrnetwork.org) at the Network office to be submitted on your behalf. Please make multiple copies when possible.
Share your story and the impacts of the cuts with the Family Budget Profile
-Family profile story with monthly budget form
-Family profile story with monthly budget form (Chinese)
-Family profile story only
-Family profile story (Chinese)
Paper Doll Campaign (Decorate w/ pictures and share stories)
-Doll w/ blue Parent Voices shirt (please print in color)
-Doll w/ blank shirt (OK to print in black and white)
Petition to Governor Brown to remove the proposed child care and CalWORKs cuts from the budget.
Agencies can have the petition available in your lobby or reception area. Please fax petitions to (415)882-6233 Attn: Mary Ignatius. An online petition is also available.
-Petition (English/Spanish)
-Petition (Chinese)
-Online petition
Letters in Response to Budget Cuts
-California Child Care Resource & Referral Network Response
-CAPPA, CCCR&RN, CCALA, NDG, and PACE Joint Response
-Birth to Five Alliance Response
-Child Care Law Center Response
-Changing Tides Family Services, Humboldt County letter to Assemblymember Chesbro
-Child Development Resources, Ventura County letter to Governor Brown
-San Joaquin Family Resource and Referral Center letter to Senator Berryhill
-Joint organization Letter to Senator Mark Leno
-Marin Board of Supervisors Letter to Governor Brown
-Marin Board of Supervisors Letter to Assemblymember Huffman
-Marin Board of Supervisors Letter to Senator Leno
News Articles and Editorials
-Moms: I can't afford to work, 4/18/2012 CNN Money
-Child care workers, parents march in protest of proposed budget cuts to education, 4/14/2012 Pasadena Star-News
-Report: Funding cuts are eroding the quality of the nation's subsidized preschools, 4/10/2012 San Jose Mercury News
-Child Care Program Cuts Leave Working Poor Parents Struggling, 4/6/2012 Huffington Post
-Funding for child care on chopping block; proposal threatens programs serving more than 500 low-income children in Pajaro Valley, 4/4/2012 San Jose Mercury News
-Presupuesto apretado para el Condado de Alameda (includes interview with Janet Zamudio, Parent Voices - Bananas, Inc.), 3/22/2012 Univision 14
-In a Nut Shell, Family Resource & Referral Center Newsletter, March 2012
-Current cuts will wound our future, Op-Ed by Kay Ruhstaller, 3/11/2012 The Record
-Women and Children Are the Casualties of the State Budget Crisis, CA Commission on the Status of Women
-Marin supervisors to Gov. Brown: Don't cut child care, 2/28/2012 Marin Independent Journal
-Sonoma's Children's School may close depending on budget proposal, 2/27/2012 Sonoma State Star
-Legislature should reject Governor's child care cuts, analyst says, 2/27/2012 California Watch
-Marin child care advocates rally against 'devastating' budget cuts, 2/22/2012 Marin Independent Journal
-Cuts target preschool programs: Preschool advocates worry about deep state cuts, 2/14/2012 Ventura County Star
-Local family feeling impact of child care cuts, 2/12/2012 San Diego News Ch. 10
-Future funding for city child care programs may be cut, 2/5/2012 The Daily Californian
-Parents fear budget cuts could slash child care subsidies, 1/24/2012 Marin Independent Journal
-Budget cuts will hurt families, 1/17/2012 Vida en el Valle
-Brown Proposes More Child Care Cuts in New Budget (includes interview with Kate Ertz-Berger, E.D. of the Contra Costa Child Care Council), 1/6/2012 KPIX Channel 5
-State Child Care Cuts Force Hard Choice on Parents, 12/30/2011 Equal Voice
