Labor Relations in Child Care (LBCS 94C)
Thursday, October 8, 2009 at 12:06PM | Admin 2011, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Cal Works, July 1, budget cuts, child care, jobs, welfare in California, child care news, politics Monday, September 28, 2009 at 3:23PM | Admin A new “Prevention Program” to help provide some levels of support for at risk babies and toddlers who will, as of October 1, 2009, lose eligibility for all services under the federally funded Early Start program, will be the focus of the September 23rd (Wednesday) CDCAN Townhall Telemeeting, from 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM.
Thursday, September 17, 2009 at 12:02PM | Admin 
Discussion of a new book that challenges many commonly held beliefs about how best to nurture children. The interviewees, Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman, are the authors of NurtureShock: New Thinking About Children.
KQED, NurtureShock, Po Bronson, child care, childrearing, children, nurture in child care news Wednesday, July 1, 2009 at 3:14PM | Admin Applicants are being sought for several vacancies on the Marin County Child Care Commission, which sets local priorities for child care funding and overall child care planning and advocacy.
Commissioners are expected to attend regular monthly meetings and serve on one of the commission's committees.
There are vacancies for two consumers of child-care services, one provider of child-care services, three public agency representatives, one discretionary seat for a Canal area representative, three community representatives and one at-large representative.
For information or an application form, call 499-7331 or visit www.co.marin.ca.us and type "commissions" in the search box.
Applications are due by 5 p.m. Aug. 21.
Monday, June 15, 2009 at 12:20PM | Admin This article from the Daily News in Southern California demonstrates the valuable role that child care providers play in our society.
Wednesday, March 11, 2009 at 11:02AM | Admin 
A new study by the National Center on Family Homelessness (NCFH) has found that one in fifty children in the United States are homeless.
This represents an increase from ten years ago, and the trend is likely to continue due to increased poverty, growing income inequality, lack of affordable housing, the recent wave of home foreclosures, and inadequate education and housing policies at the governmental level.
According to the report, California ranked 40th in the nation in child homelessness.
Among the many short-term and long-term strategies that could be used to improve the situation, NCFH concluded that "Child care is essential for families seeking to secure and maintain work, search for housing, attend school and job training opportunities and more."
Tuesday, March 10, 2009 at 2:59PM | Admin 
Labor Relations in Child Care (LBCS 94C)Child Care Providers United (CCPUnited) of California and City College of San Francisco's (CCSF) Labor & Community Studies Department are offering a 1.0 unit course designed for child care providers.
The class will meet from April 2 to May 14, 2009, on Thursday nights between 6:30 and 9:30 PM.
Students will develop unique leadership skills as they learn about CCPUnited's innovative representation model, the peer advocate program. There will also be a special section devoted to the contributions of women in the labor movement.
Click the image above to learn more. Then click here to sign up.
CCPUnited can also add your name to the roll. Contact Joe Wilson at 510-325-7858.
Thursday, March 5, 2009 at 12:54PM | Admin A new study by the Pew Center on the States has found that a record-high seven million Americans is either in prison or on probation or parole. That’s one out of every thirty-one adults. This finding highlights how our society has been dramatically transformed over the last twenty-five years, as prison spending has surpassed funding for public education, transportation, and social services like child care.
When these facts are seen within the context of the various state budget crises that have wracked California over the same time period, it's easy to see that the root of our budget problems in the Golden State comes down to a misplaced sense of priorities as well as a lack of revenue.
This article explores the issue in greater detail and incorporates a discussion of the May 19 special election.
California, May, child care, crisis, education, new study, revenues, special election, state budget in California, politics Monday, February 23, 2009 at 11:33AM | Admin This morning Child Care Providers United (CCPUnited) of California member, Louise Marta from Fresno County, alerted us to the fact that the California Department of Education (CDE) had removed from their website information pertaining to the planned increase in reimbursement rates (RMRs) scheduled for March 1, 2009.
When we accessed this particular web page back on January 9, 2009, users were allowed to toggle back and forth between "Effective 10/01/2006" and "March 1, 2009" to view the new RMRs for California by county. Now, the March 1, 2009 RMR information has disappeared.
According to our sources, the CDE may be putting off implementing the scheduled RMR changes, which showed that child care providers in every county except Sacramento were due to experience across the board rate increases.
Although the CDE has eliminated access to the March 2009 RMRs, CCPUnited was able to pull down that particular information from the CDE web page before it disappeared. You can download that information here. Please share this information with your colleagues in the child care field. More importantly, you should also contact the CDE employee charged with maintaining this web page and ask her why she removed the March 2009 RMR increases. Her contact information is below:
Elena Fong | efong@cde.ca.gov | 916-324-6560
Wednesday, February 18, 2009 at 1:00PM | Admin 
President Obama has signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act into law. Accordingly, the National Women's Law Center (NWLC) has broken down the various ways in which the $787 billion economic stimulus package will positively impact child care and early childhood education programs nationally.
The new investments include:
