We love celebrating our advocates🎉❤️!
SCAN student advocate and club president, Avery Shippen shares the importance of advocacy and helping children. Check it out it👇🏼: https://t.co/ToTg3Tzdy4
“I have made the US my home in my heart, and in all that I do. Yet, the US does not treat me — or protect me — as one of its own.”
Omar Salinas Chacón, and all DACA recipients, deserve permanent protections under the law. Period. https://t.co/J1nMWVtoeT
📊 New @USDOL survey reveals the extent to which working parents, particularly women, juggled their jobs and #childcare.
The survey reveals what we know: we must #SolveChildCare to retain our workforce & support our economy.
Read the findings from @WSJ. https://t.co/W98AhTv5sh
🤝 We thank @RepHarshbarger for meeting with us today to discuss how we can expand #childcare funding & universal #PreK!
We know early learning programs build a strong foundation for kids and sets them up for success.
We look forward to working with you to #InvestInKids!
While the economy is slowly rebuilding from the pandemic, many parents - especially moms - are unable to go back to work without child care. Send a message to your members of Congress: we can't rebuild our economy without rebuilding child care industry! https://t.co/N4tK5zGWYO
.@GovBillLee, Tennessee students need thoughtful, serious conversations about our nation's painful history, its legacy, and the lessons it has to offer us today. Veto SB623 and #LearnFromOurPast#TNLeg
What's #WIC? This vital program provides nutrition to millions of low-income moms and young children. Yet, only half of those eligible for WIC actually participate.
Join us in urging Congress to make this program work better for families!👉https://t.co/WRdouZ2QKl
Please send your members of Congress a message – we need to honor all the moms who are working harder than ever to keep their kids healthy, safe and fed by making the Women, Infants and Children (WIC) program work better for moms! https://t.co/OUU4JBZpY7
Vanessa (far left) is one of our volunteers from Tennessee. Her advocacy has led to additional funding & resources for kids across the state.
She says, “there is no greater purpose in life than to speak for those who can’t yet speak for themselves.”
#NationalVolunteerWeek
Since the pandemic began, things are now starting to align for Tennessee’s most vulnerable families.
Our very own @CourtneyLMott & advocate Kathleen Growden share in @Tennessean how the Tennessee Opportunity Act will provide urgent support to families. https://t.co/HiGYG31sr4
Nearly 200,000 child care workers lost their jobs at the start of the pandemic. Lack of funding to the industry is continuing to hurt child care workers and, adversely impacting the workforce overall.
We must rebuild the child care system. https://t.co/R4GV6FrsWe @MeganCerullo
Early educators earn poverty wages in 40 states.
40 states.
It's time for Congress to pass the needed legislation to:
1) #SaveChildCare
2) Support the #Movement4ChildCare
https://t.co/o0GWk9SHuq
I am once again asking for more quality, affordable, accessible child care options. Women shouldn’t be forced to choose between going to their job or caring for their kids.
Ohio mother arrested and facing charges of child endangerment after police said she left kids alone as she worked at pizza shop https://t.co/rNuVKoSHdG