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• Fact Sheet: Access to Nutritious Meals for Young Children Act of 2009 (S. 2749)
  Learn about this bill which aims to expand young children’s access to healthy meals, improve child nutrition and health, reduces obesity, enhance child development and school readiness, reduce hunger and make healthier meals more affordable in child care programs.
• Ohio - Child Care Providers Win 1st Contract
  
• NM Child Care Providers Say ‘Yes’ to AFSCME
  Approximately 2,600 family child care providers statewide can now speak with one powerful voice after voting to join Child Care Providers Together (CCPT)/New Mexico, an affiliate of AFSCME Council 18.
• Is Early Childhood Education An Investment In The Future Or A Giant Waste Of Money?
  Advocates of early childhood education--programs like Head Start--often claim that the social benefits so far outweigh the costs that money budgeted for such programs should be considered an investment in the future rather than ordinary government spending.
• Ohio Child Care Providers Ratify First Contract
  Nearly 8,000 in-home child care providers in Ohio have ratified their first AFSCME contract, guaranteeing union recognition, establishing a grievance procedure, and giving in-home child care providers new rights on the job.
• New Mexico - Home Child Care Providers Win Organizing Rights
  
• Quality First! Early childhood initiative in Arizona
  Quality First! is a brand new but very important coalition to improve early care in Arizona funded by First Things First. In November of 2006, Arizona voters passed prop 203 overwhelmingly as a citizens initiative to quality early childhood development and health. Quality First! is an exciting opportunity for centers and homes to improve the quality of care provided to children with the support of financial incentives, coaching, child care health consultation and scholarships for program personnel.
• NYC Day Care Workers, Parents March to Save School Funding
  Hundreds of day care and Head Start employees from District Council 1707 marched to protest proposed cuts to kindergarten and other youth programs.
• NM Home Child Care Providers Win Right to Organize
  Gov. Bill Richardson (D) recently signed legislation affecting both registered and licensed providers who take care of children through New Mexico’s child care assistance program.
• First Contract for Kansas Child Care Providers
  7,000 registered or licensed home child care providers, members of Child Care Providers Together Kansas (CCPT)/AFSCME, signed their first contract with the state in February.
• Health Care for America: Which Side Are You On?
  Learn about AFSCME’s plan to guarantee quality, affordable health care for all Americans.
• Next Wave Toolkit
  Learn how to start a new Next Wave chapter, host an event, get involved in the election or find more information.
• Training Resources for Family Child Care Providers
  
• KS Executive Order recognizing AFSCME/Child Care Providers Together
  
• Child Care Providers Win with AFSCME in KS and PA!
  The governors of Kansas and Pennsylvania on Thursday signed executive orders that grant collective bargaining rights to thousands of state-regulated child care providers.
• Child Care Bargaining Is Now Oregon State Law
  
• Spotlight on Activists: Dahlia Garcia
  

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