Joy Connolly
@jccproductionsNonprofit manager/educator/mother/lover of books, arts, food, equity and justice/children and family advocate. Tweets are my own.
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"Amid #BlackMaternalHealthWeek, experts are raising the alarm on the urgent need for equity. Black women & birthing people are more likely than any other racial or ethnic group in the US to die of pregnancy-related causes."-@nhassanein_ / @USAToday loom.ly/zDTGAhg #BMHW23
Black Maternal Health Week 2023 is officially here! As the founders of #BMHW, #BMMA is excited to kick off this annual campaign for the 6th year! We encourage you to engage with us & our partners at blackmamasmatter.org/BMHWH. Happy Black Maternal Health Week! #BMHW23
Collecting data on provider gender, race, & ethnicity is necessary to track & promote equity in #childcare funding access. Our new report shows how @NYSOCFS improved tracking of this information & how they can use these practices in the future: loom.ly/J5Eu0BU
Child care has been all over the news in New York! Catch up on what you might have missed in this thread:
Across NYS, business leaders, child care educators, parents and advocates are calling on lawmakers to include significant, sustained funding for child care in the final state budget – funding that exceeds that included in @GovKathyHochul's Executive Budget. #NYSUniversalChildCare
How Policymakers Fight a Losing Battle With Models prospect.org/economy/2023-0…
.@JessKlosShaps from @NYS_ECLC is right: access to affordable, quality childcare is key to the success of NY families and our economy. The Assembly is fighting for CCR&Rs in this budget, so they can help #NYSchildcare thrive. And we urge @GovKathyHochul to do the same.
Check out this article, written by our Senior Director of Policy & Community Education, Jess Klos-Shapiro, urging NYS to provide more funding to Child Care Resource and Referral agencies! timesunion.com/opinion/articl…
Check out this article, written by our Senior Director of Policy & Community Education, Jess Klos-Shapiro, urging NYS to provide more funding to Child Care Resource and Referral agencies! timesunion.com/opinion/articl…
"The child care field has been tough on parents and underpaid educators, but it does not have to be this way." Invest $23M in CCR&Rs this year so they can continue to provide crucial supports, @GovKathyHochul, @AndreaSCousins, & @CarlHeastie! @NYS_ECLC timesunion.com/opinion/articl…
"When businesses and governments pay their share directly, they are better off, as are parents and early childhood educators." Gift article for this great piece! You should read it. wapo.st/3TRiCCM
As staffs dwindle, post-COVID nonprofits seek answers - innovateli.com/as-staffs-dwin…
It took Mariah Fuente nearly two years to finally get off the waiting list at local day care, experiencing homelessness as she struggled to find jobs that could work around childcare schedules. “They quite literally saved our lives,” Fuente says. trib.al/aLjvNLt
All it takes is 10 minutes to find out if you may qualify for financial support through New York’s #ChildCareAssistanceProgram for low to no-cost #childcare. Get started here: ow.ly/CTOu50Noppi
A new cost model provides an initial & necessary foundation of data on the true cost of quality #childcare from which NY can build a sustainable system that ensures providers receive a family-sustaining wage & children have high-quality care. loom.ly/jI09dP8 #ECE
WH Economic Report underscores that public investment in child care is an economic imperative - for parents to work for businesses to thrive for providers to make fair wages, and for kids to get a high-quality early education. apnews.com/article/biden-…
To help New York working families access child care assistance sooner, the state Office of Children and Family Services launched a new electronic pre-screening tool aimed at accelerating and streamlining the application process. For more information visit: ocfs.ny.gov/programs/child…
"Katie Dobies, regional director of Maple Leaf Childcare Center... continues to struggle to find substitutes or staff, with one location in Schenectady County serving children at 37% capacity because of the shortage." spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/central-ny…
We need your help to illustrate the connection between staffing shortages and the child care crisis in New York State! Please take this 5 minute survey as soon as possible. #NYSUniversalChildCare surveymonkey.com/r/NYRHCHX
🆕More than *200* organizations from across NYS just joined in a letter requesting that Majority Leader @AndreaSCousins and Speaker @CarlHeastie include a $5B investment and top priorities for child care in this year's budget. #NYSUniversalChildCare empirestatechildcare.org/letter-in-supp…
The Onion bringing the child care policy humor this week - even citing a pretend report from @CAPEarlyEd for added authenticity. 😀 theonion.com/high-cost-of-c…
“Often, how a child is doing depends heavily on how their parents and caregivers are doing. Babies don’t live alone. Their caregivers’ mental health is inextricably tied to their mental health.” Yes to all of this!!! edsurge.com/news/2023-02-2…
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