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CHILD CARE
A summary of focus groups
"This is a point in history...a critical one"
In April, the President announced that a White House
Conference on Child Care would be held in the fall of I997. In
June, six focus groups were held to gather ideas to help plan the
conference and overall strategy. More than 65 child care experts,
representatives of national organizations, foundations and
corporations participated in these discussion sessions.
Participants were asked a series of questions including:
What was your initial reaction to
the conference announcement?
What is the most important
outcome we should seek from
the conference?
What is the one thing that the
Administration could do to help
promote affordable, quality
care?
The following is a summary of the key messages,
outcomes and conference program ideas suggested by the focus
group participants. Notes from each of the six sessions are also
attached.
Messages about child care
"This is not a women's issue, it is a workforce issue"
"Education is a journey, but we send kids out without gas in the car"
Three or four themes emerged from the focus groups about the overall child care
message.
Child Care is one of the central issues of our time. In a fully employed
society of the 2lst Century, we must address the issue of caring for
children while parents work. Poor quality care, unreliable child care
arrangements are experienced as a silent, personal crisis by many
families, rather than a societal crisis.
We need to recast the child care issue. Child Care is about economics
and education- it is about workforce development and child
development. One participant put it this way, "Child care is a competitive
edge issue in the global market place...good child care is competitive
business." Many suggested that we build upon the brain research to
advance the image of child care as crucial to school readiness and
long-term academic achievement.
Child care is important to all families. Child care is a universal need-
not a welfare issue. Without child care the country cannot work. A
quality, affordable child care system benefits everyone.
Outcomes
"We need a Marshall Plan for child care"
This must be more than a one-day conference. It should launch both
short-term actions to build momentum and a long-term process for
moving child care forward, including federal policy changes and
legislative commitments for new investments.
We must have a clear vision of the goal:
"Every community should have a continuum of quality care from infancy through
adolescence to meet the needs of children of working families."
Governors, mayors and the private sector must be challenged to
help meet the goal in every State and community. Child care is
everyone's responsibility. Neither parents nor the federal government can
do it alone. Everyone should leave the conference with something
specific that they can do.
The federal government should set an example by looking at the
opportunities to enhance and expand child care across agencies.
Parents must learn to recognize quality child care and to demand it,
to create demand-side pressure for change. However, the conference
must be sensitive to the fact that quality is both expensive for some
parents and in short supply in many communities. Parents should not be
made to feel terrified or guilty about the arrangements that they can
provide for their children.
The most critical issue is how we can finance a high quality, affordable
accessible system for all children who need it. A long term plan must be
established to finance the full cost of quality so that families can afford
good care and child care providers do not have to subsidize the cost of
quality through low wages. As one participant put it, "Let's finally wrestle
the finance bear to the ground."
General Conference Program Ideas
Nontraditional allies with new resources should be invited, rather
than the usual child care constituency. As one participant put it, "The
conference will accomplish nothing if it merely preaches to the
converted." Participants should include civic leaders, educators, law
enforcement, health professionals, religious leaders and the business
community. Parents should be included in the presentations. "Child care
is everyone's business and everyone must own it."
The conference should be made accessible to the general public
with viewing throughout the country. The conference needs to reach a
broad audience of parents and providers, as well as targeting a private
sector audience. There should be satellite hook-up all across the country.
The conference should emphasize strengths and solutions, but
should avoid advancing very specific models that may be difficult to
replicate due to expense or varying community circumstances. Models
should be used where they point to universal principles that are essential
for a successful child care system anywhere.
White House Conference Focus Group
June 18, 1997
Participants:
Helen Blank, Children's Defense Fund
Jeannie Brooks-Gunn, Columbia University
Ellen Clippinger, National School Age Care Alliance
Lynn Kagan, Yale University
Tonlee Rich?, National Head Start Association
Claudia Wayne, National Center for the Early Childhood Workforce
Janet Wise, National Indian Child Care Association
First Thoughts Upon Hearing of the Conference:
"This better be more than an event."
This is a good opportunity for the nation to think
systemically and consider the infrastructure required to
support quality
This should have a durable impact. It is a "kickoff" of
something larger and not an end in itself.
Message Recommendations:
0
The current lack of high quality, affordable, accessible
care 1S a societal problem; it is not an individual consumer
problem. Parents are not alone in their struggles with
their child care arrangements.
Early care and education occur at every moment in a child's
life. Although not every child is in a child care setting
every child receives care. Every person has a stake in all
of the children of the society and the care that is given
them.
Frame the initiative/challenge/expenditures as a
"Downpayment on America's Future, " which encompasses the
dea that spending money, time, and effort on children early
has positive outcomes for the country later.
0
Child care is not just a problem for poor people. People of
all income levels struggle with child care arrangements.
0
Quality matters. Quality has an impact on both short-term
and long-term outcomes for children.
0
Quality child care is synonymous with quality early care and
education.
0
Providing quality child care is a professional skill.
America must value the work of caregivers and pay them a
1
living wage. Quality cannot be ensured until we reach this
goal.
Resources are required to bridge the gap between what
parents are able to pay and the full cost of providing
quality child care.
Child care encompasses the need for care from birth through
adolescence. "It's not just preschool."
High quality, reliable child care arrangements improve the
productivity of parents in the workforce, while investing in
the development of the workforce of the future.
American children have a right to a safe and healthy
environment.
Strategy Recommendations:
Make this a White House/Presidential acknowledgment of a
major societal problem upon which he intends to launch a
vision for the future and extensive plan of action.
[Participant cited the recent race initiative as example.]
Assemble the best minds to envision the universal,
integrated early care and education system that our nation
should have twenty years from now. It should include
diversified funding streams and delivery systems.
Have the President "show good faith" with an immediate
action (such as more Federal dollars) and challenge the
Governors to do likewise (see below), while announcing an
initiative to examine and address the larger issues with a
larger, long-term focus (e.g. a Commission).
Have the President issue a challenge to the Nation's
Governors to address this issue with resources and 10 year
strategic plans. Have a few Governors "buy in" early and
announce their commitments at the conference. Also enlist
tribal leaders and mayors. [Noted tie to the National
Education Goal #1.]
Follow the one-day White House conference featuring the
President and First Lady with a think tank conference to
more fully hash out the issues.
Provide satellite downlinks for people to watch around the
nation, followed by local, on-site panels to further address
the issues. [Participants cited " WH Brain Conference"
example.]
Maximize media coverage. Time it to coincide with an event
that will garner more media coverage (i.e. Back-to-School,
Thanksgiving's family focus, another announcement or event).
Use regional conferences throughout the country to follow up
on the WH conference.
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Pilot a completely comprehensive model that would install
all of the pieces that have been proven to work into one
community or State.
Conference Program Recommendations:
Do not focus on models. There is no comprehensive American
model that addresses all parts of the need. Large
initiatives, like statewide or citywide commitments of
resources should be cited, but they should be presented in
the context of a larger vision. [NC, IL, and Kansas City
were mentioned. International models were mentioned.]
Focus on caregivers. The conference should address training
(tied to compensation), wages and benefits, turnover, and
professional recognition. Recognize that all of these
elements are linked: trained entrants into the profession
often leave quickly because there are few wage and benefit
incentives to remaining in the child care field. This cycle
makes it difficult to build a skilled, stable, professional
workforce.
Include a panel with a center-based provider, a home
provider, a relative provider, etc. and ask them to speak
about their experiences.
Build credibility with parents by focusing on their needs
and including them in the program (e.g., on a panel or in
dialogue with caregivers and employers). Strong parent
involvement is necessary to have buy-in and the commitment
of resources from multiple sectors of society.
0
Focus on helping parents understand the elements of quality
le.g. through parent education, consumer education, and peer
mentoring). Help parents feel ownership of their child care
arrangements, learn to partner with caregivers, and learn to
pursue high expectations of caregivers and settings.
0
Include employers and the business community, but recognize
that most working women are employed by small employers who
do not have the resources to provide on-site child care. Be
flexible and avoid a "one size fits all" approach for
business participation. Encourage them to advocate for
child care resources with their local, State, and Federal
governments. Encourage them to think strategically about how
child care impacts them and how they can contribute to
improvement.
Explore the connection between child care and the global
economy.
Emphasize that child care is a community problem that
requires active community participation to address.
3
Recognize, however, that every community is different and
have different levels of resources to address the problem.
Focus on the importance of regulations and standards.
Participant noted that we expect barbers to be licensed, but
millions of children are in unregulated child care.
Concerns:
Several participants expressed concern over the narrow
connotations attached to the term "child care. " They wanted
a broader term that encompassed child development, early
care and education, the inclusion of children with
disabilities, cultural diversity issues, and a recognition
of care needs from infancy through adolescence.
Do not terrify parents and families about the current poor
quality of many child care settings or the unavailability of
quality, affordable care.
Do not make parents feel guilty about the kind of care that
they are currently able to provide for their children.
Emphasize that this is a systemic breakdown, not a personal
failure.
Some of the ambivalence around child care is rooted in
societal ambivalence about mothers in the workforce. We
need to be careful about the message that may be sent (or
perceived to have been sent) about this issue.
Some Welfare to Work initiatives are eroding the value of
caregiving as a profession by implying that anyone can do
child care and that it requires no special skills or
training.
Some States are allowing TANF dollars to be spent on child
care without standards, which removes part of the incentive
for providers to be licensed and puts some providers in
financial jeopardy because parents are choosing cheaper,
unregulated care.
4
White House Conference Focus Group
June 20, 1997
Participants:
Ellen Galinsky, Families and Work Institute
Melinda Green, Child Care Connection, Trenton, NJ
Barbara Kamara, District of Columbia Dept. of Human Services
Roberta Malavenda, Save the Children
Carole Porterman, Detroit CCCC
Nancy Sconyers, National Association of Child Advocates
Tutti Sherlock, Minnesota Resource & Referral Network
Gail Solit, Gallaudet University Child Development Center
Barbara Willer, NAEYC
Alice Walker-Duff, Crystal Stairs, Los Angeles, CA
First Thoughts Upon Hearing of the Conference:
"They can't really be serious-this Fall! It's about time.
Curious about target audience and outcomes.
"Wouldn't it be wonderful if the highest level of government
embraced child care?"
Message Recommendations:
Educated consumers are needed to help drive quality.
Parents must understand the importance of their choices.
We must respect the diversity of families.
Accessible, affordable, quality child care is vital to
economic stability and long-term productivity.
Our current subsidy system is not even meeting the need to
fund the poor quality system that we currently have, let
alone the quality system that we should aspire to.
Avoid any messages that seem to imply that government should
"take over raising kids."
Strategy Recommendations:
Develop new funding streams. Although the public sector
must do more, it cannot realistically do everything. Use
Presidential leadership, tax credits, collective financing
strategies, and incentives, to get more people to the table
with resources.
Make the event a launching pad for action with a major
Presidential initiative around resources and quality.
Use the event to build the political will for money and
quality.
1
Follow a Renaissance Weekend type of format to foster
creative thinking. Avoid simply bringing together the
standard group of child care constituents who already
regularly speak with and "lecture" one another.
Establish community child care mobilization and planning
money for local organization. Model it on the Empowerment
Zones.
Have every Cabinet agency examine its programs' interaction
with child care.
Launch a task force on financing with a Presidential
commitment to follow-up on recommendations.
Institute a Marshall Plan for child care.
Disseminate widely on videotape the parts of the program
that are relevant to parents to be used in Head Start, child
care consumer ed, and parent ed programs.
Consider expanding the CCDF, because it provides a strong,
pre-existing legislative framework with a streamlined
approach to child care.
Build on the wave of devolution to the States to challenge
and inspire the governors and mayors to sign on. Stress
intergovernmental linkages.
Get more quality money to the States, because the quality
set-aside was reduced in CCDF.
Paraliel the need for and future development of early
childhood education with universal public education. Note
that some participants felt that this was a real danger
politically and doesn't resonate with parents when tested in
focus groups.
Have a webpage in conjunction with the conference.
Issue an Executive Order to institute National Child Care
Professional Recognition Day. One participant expressed that
parents have often requested a provider recognition day.
Another expressed concern that it might simply be a token
day.
Have breakfast on the WH lawn for parents and providers.
Build on the brain conference with a second round of media
attention and local implementation and awareness work.
Conference Program Recommendations:
Build a strong foundation with a clearly articulated
Presidential vision.
Bring people together to figure out how to generate the $100
billion that we need for child care.
Use a two-pronged approach: one part for parents, one part
for policy makers.
2
Take exceptional care about HOW we talk to parents. Use
language that reflects the way that they think and talk
about child care (cited brain conference, Child Care Aware
focus groups.)
Focus on resources. Even if parents have adequate consumer
ed information about quality, they cannot purchase it if it
is not affordable and the resources are not available.
Use parents' voices. They are often ahead of the field in
"militance and dissatisfaction with the child care status
quo.' They also describe quality most eloquently.
Highlight principles from around the country. Look for
pockets of excellence.
Avoid small, narrow models that might be bound in a
particular community's circumstance.
Celebrate and promote community-based solutions. Don't
advocate a one approach which may not fit all communities'
needs.
Focus on building a number of child care constituencies.
Don't simply rely on the private sector.
Focus on the early childhood workforce issues, including
training tied to compensation, wage issues, benefit issues.
Be mindful of the full range of providers, including family
child care and Head Start.
Look at the issue from the perspective of children,
families, providers, business, and communities and examine
how the needs are similar or different.
Address the huge infant need.
Ground content, recommendation, and actions in the context
of data and information.
Focus on accreditation to build and recognize quality. Think
about national standards.
Address racism and gender issues in child care. Have
presenters and invitees who represent the diversity of
people affected by child care. Consider language issues and
the need for the program to be culturally sensitive to a
variety of groups.
Highlight the Federal government as a model employer on
child care issues.
Concerns:
"If you say the word 'quality' to policymakers, their eyes
glaze over."
The fact that child care programs have been administered by
human services agencies, rather than education agencies, has
reinforced the idea that child care is just for poor people.
3
Be careful about addressing affordability issues, mindful of
the fact that TANF and working families with low-incomes
compete for the limited resources.
4
White House Conference Focus Group
June 23, 1997
Participants:
Joyce Butler, National Child Care Association
Deborah Eaton, National Association for Family Child Care
Abbey Griffin, Zero to Three
Janice Gurney, American Academy of Pediatrics
Bruce Hershfield, Child Welfare League of America
Charlene Mohamed (for Billie Young)
Evelyn Moore, National Black Child Development Institute
Billie Osbourne-Fears, Starting Point for Child Care & Early
Education
Carol Phillips, National Council on Early Childhood Professional
Recognition
Julie Quaid, Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation
Susan Russell, Day Care Services Association, NC
Michelle Seligson, School Age Child Care Project, Wellesley
Heather Weiss, Harvard Family Research Project
First Thoughts Upon Hearing About the Conference:
"This should be about quality, not quantity"
What will be achieved? There had better be an outcome.
We need to generate "a clearer idea of what child care is
and how it fits into the American landscape."
We should change the nature of the discourse on child care
by looking at it from the child's point of view.
Hope it is more substance and not a few flashy models that
will not be able to play out in other communities, because
of different community characteristics.
"It's about time. We can't do it alone. We have nothing to
deal with training and supply in a real way."
Message Recommendations:
Public investment in children needs to start earlier.
Child care and early education are synonymous.
Child Care is an investment with great returns in both the
short and the long-run.
Child care is about self-sufficiency and taking care of
yourself and your family.
The working poor are left out of the system.
Parents should not feel guilty about child care. People
should be able to feel good about working.
Child care supports families' and parents' role in child
development.
1
The current healthy economy is a rationale for why we can
make this is a good time to make an investment in capacity
building. The healthy economy also can be cited for driving
child care demand, by virtue of high employment rates.
If we decide as a Nation that every able-bodied person must
work, we must consider who will mind the children. If we
don't we will pay for it in the child abuse and neglect
system, the foster care system, and the juvenile justice
system.
Strategy Recommendations:
Parlay the conference into more than a one day event.
Use technology to create a real-time broadcast. (See CNN's
"Talk Back Live.
Don't preach to the converted. Address the whole
population, including people without children. Engage
parents who haven't yet gotten the message and bring in
business leaders and State and local public officials who
haven't yet embraced a child care agenda.
Establish a commission to push the agenda on a powerful
level.
Introduce a specific legislative package. Use a "disaster
relief" approach in the short run, in conjunction with a
long-term strategic plan, including legislation and outcome
measures.
A legislative package might include: training scholarships;
links to higher education; recommended voluntary health,
safety, and quality standards; incentive money to build
capacity via grants or loans; revision of the Dependent Care
Tax Credit with expansion and refundability. Build in
different funding streams include funds and incentives to
parents, businesses, and providers.
Examine current regulations and funding guidelines in the
housing and community development arenas to remove barriers
to using those funds for community child care.
0
Use the bully pulpit to market the message and raise the
dialogue through town hall meetings, hearings, etc., on the
State and local levels.
0
Open a high quality child care center with comprehensive
services in the most economically depressed neighborhood in
America and call it the "President's Child Care Center."
Conference Program Recommendations:
Put child care in the context of the larger economy of
women, families, work, and welfare reform, so it no longer
conjures up babysitting in people's minds.
2
Place this in the historical context of the WH decennial
conferences on children.
Include the both the economic and child development aspects
of child care.
Link provider education and training to compensation. Keep
quality linked to supply; push for good child care, not just
more child care.
Focus on the most critical things to be done, because there
are so many dimensions to the current child care situation.
Focus on building infrastructure. There is inadequate
infrastructure to support the current inadequate supply,
much less to grow the system, improve the quality, or
accommodate increased need from welfare reform.
Highlight the most important infrastructure issues which are
the development of human and financial resources. Look at
the Making the Most of Out-of-School Time Initiative (MOST)
for insight into how communities can build infrastructure.
Approach the issue from a strengths perspective. Balance
current issues and concerns with historical context and
successful models, and the strengths of the profession.
Do not highlight models without a broad-based frame of
vision that can be expressed as legislation and a sense of
movement toward a larger goal.
Push toward universal child care in America, to unify us and
produce a broader base of care. Until we do, resources will
remain in jeopardy. Another participant expressed concern
about the political unfeasibility of a "universal" focus.
Don't leave parents hanging with no follow-up. After the
brain conference, parents were eager to seek advice and
follow-up, but too few mechanisms existed for it.
Concerns:
Supply issues are more critical than ever. As people come
off of welfare, the competition between the lower income
people and the working poor for child care resources is
going to intensify. When people leave welfare and join the
working poor, will they lose the ability to pay for quality
child care?
0
Quality disparities may come to a head between people with
very low incomes and the working class. As Head Start
institutes performance measures and Early Head Start, there
:s not enough quality in the child care system to supply the
working poor and wrap around Early Head Start.
Some participants expressed concern that any attempt to
establish national performance standards would lead to the
demise of a legislative package or major strategic plan.
3
White House Conference Focus Group
June 25, 1997
Participants:
Randy Botnick, Benton Foundation
Kathleen Christenson, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Deanna Gombey, David and Lucille Packard Foundation
Mary Larner, David and Lucille Packard Foundation
Michael Levine, Carnegie Corporation of New York
Luba Lynch, A.L. Mailman Family Foundation
Marge Petrusca, The Howard Heinz Endowment
Linda Rich, Pew Charitable Trusts
Pam Stevens, Dewitt-Wallace, Reader's Digest Fund
Ruby Takaneshi, Foundation for Child Development
Dee Topol, Traveler's Foundation
First Thoughts Upon Hearing of the Conference:
"Send me the money. If a program could be initiated to bring
the needed resources, that would be the top priority. We
need to help families pay for quality, rather than have the
Early childhood workers subsidize it. [This is the] one
main thing that has escaped us as funders. We have put a lot
of money on the table together, but it hasn't reached the
core problem."
"Great opportunity to get the point across that quality
matters and there is going to be an economic imperative
because of welfare reform."
"This 15 bigger than a women's issue. It's a workforce
"
issue.
"it's the money, stupid."
Message Recommendations:
The President should lay out the following facts for the
American people: Women are going to work. Millions of
children and adolescents have no care and supervision. We
must do something about the situation.
We must do a number of things simultaneously to address
workforce development, child development, and current
workforce needs.
It is a travesty that, while our economy requires two
parents to work to support a family, we haven't taken
responsibility for the healthy care and development of
working people's children.
Working people are the most disadvantaged in the system.
The difference between success and failure in community
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experiments has been the availability of adequate resources.
Subsidy alone will not beget quality unless an
infrastructure is in place to support quality.
Strategy Recommendations:
Bring more broadly-based constituents to the table than the
traditional child care constituents. Give air time to the
nontraditional players.
Recognize that it is critical that the efforts be
bipartisan. Enlist both Democratic and Republican
governors, many of whom are already doing extraordinary
things.
Introduce legislation to shift the Federal, State, and local
funding to realign the current funding structure so that
costs are shared between 10-20% private, 10-20% parents
fees, business contribution. Currently, too much is paid by
parents and subsidized by child care workers via their low
wages.
Assemble the best economic and public policy minds to
address the following question honestly: "Where do we get
the money that child care workers currently subsidize?"
Encourage systems reform and structural change so that
communities can institute coalition-building and integrated
systems. Provide planning money and use community leaders to
let communities take charge and drive designs to increase
quality and supply.
Spark public private partnerships that focus on three or
four primary aspects of quality.
Launch a national campaign like the teenage pregnancy
prevention campaign.
Launch a BIG IDEA like the New Deal or the War on Poverty.
Don't get so lost in details that the thread of the big
picture is lost.
0
Establish a commission funded with blended public and
private resources. One participant suggested that the
research has been and is being done already and should be
assembled BEFORE the conference and analyzed before or
during the conference, in lieu of a commission to perform
this function afterwards. Another participant expressed
that commission recommendations are often not implemented,
due to changing political climates and/or administrations.
Advocate two or three big strategies like universally funded
Head Start, universal pre-K education with wrap-around child
care, and the mobilization of the business community.
Analyze the entire picture of Federal child care support,
including tax credits, and determine to whom the money is
flowing for what purposes. Determine if the results reflect
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strong priorities and most appropriate distribution of
Federal funds.
Build a quality infrastructure by linking with welfare to
work initiatives, the National Service movement, workforce
development programs, and higher education.
Examine Federal regulations to determine how they can be
tightened to support quality. Link funding to quality
standards. Several participants, though, expressed concern
about national standards, and suggested using the private
early childhood organizations to promulgate standards.
Conference Program Recommendations:
Broaden the message to include pre-adolescents and
adolescents who are spending more and more time
unsupervised. Demographics will lead to a large cohort of
adolescents in the near future.
Focus on the economics of child care, like increased
productivity and workforce development. One California
county cost out the economic benefits of child care to the
community and they were equal to the largest agricultural
crops in the county.
Validate the issue and take it out of the realm of the "soft
issues." In the brain conference this was done by lending
the import of scientists. Consider business representatives,
economists, scientists, and parents.
)
Focus on the outcomes of poor supervision and care.
)
Talk about quality in a way that does not employ too much
professional jargon.
Focus on the plight of the child care worker and the degree
to which early childhood is valued (or undervalued) as a
profession. Discuss the women's business aspect of child
care (e.g., microlending and microenterprise).
Combat the perception that child care is only about poor
children and families. The public perception is that child
care only has to do with a small portion of the population.
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Explore the intersection between child care and Head Start.
0
Explore the intersection between child care and family
leave.
Concerns:
0
It may be too difficult to send one coherent message if we
focus on two vulnerable populations at once: young children
and youths. One participant proposed that it deal
specifically with younger children. Another participant
responded that infancy through adolescence should be viewed
as a continuum.
3
The President and First Lady should convey specific
messages, yet not segment the audience and the topic too
much. Be broad without being too generic to generate
interest; specific without being SO narrow that it segments
people and increases competition for limited resources.
Policymakers need to understand the effects on the working
poor, as well as the welfare recipient transitioning
welfare recipient. For instance, is exempting people with
infants from TANF requirements fair when working people
cannot afford time off to spend with their infants?
4
White House Focus Group
June 27, 1997
Participants:
Margaret Browning, Mentor Graphics
Ted Childs, IBM
Michael Day, Bright Horizons
Madeline Fried, Fried & Sher
Dana Friedman, Corporate Family Solutions
Rosemary Jordano, Children First, Inc.
Chris Kjeldsen, Johnson and Johnson
Donna Klein, Marriott International
Mary Kay Leonard, Work Family Institute
Barbara Reisman, Schumann Fund
Charles Romeo, Con Agra
First Thoughts Upon Hearing about the Conference:
This could be an important next step after the brain
conference to "do something serious in this country about
child development and parent education."
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Need to have a bold initiative on public policy.
0
Are we ready for this after 30 years of talking about it?
Can we air our dirty laundry in public? Can we build the
public will to do what we need to do?
What we've been doing and how we have been talking about it
has not worked. How can we position the issue differently?
Message Recommendations:
The President could build on his message of two more years
of post-secondary ed, by emphasizing two more years of
education before children enter elementary school.
We must get the schools ready for the child and the child
ready for the schools. Education is a journey and setting
the child out on the journey without good early care and
education is like trying to start without gas in the car.
)
We must resolve to move toward a national system of
affordable child care for the masses. However, a national
system does not equal a national delivery system.
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It is unacceptable for an American child to come to
Kindergarten not ready to learn. This is a war and we're
going to win it.
0
"Good child care is competitive business.' We must view
this as a part of America's competitive spirit and a
1
necessity to give us the competitive edge in the global
marketplace.
One of our country's fundamental principles is that we must
educate our people to have an informed, responsible citizens
in our democracy, yet we fail to build on our principles
when we neglect the education of children from infancy.
Child care is not babysitting. All providers, from
relatives to center-based providers, are teachers.
Strategy Recommendations:
Establish a process out in the field to prepare for the
conference by running focus groups all over the country,
lining up partners in communities, etc.
Position the President as the "Working Family President" and
link this initiative with the Family and Medical Leave Act,
EITC, etc.
Work with the Cabinet Secretaries (Daley, Shalala, and
Hermann were mentioned) as a group to act on the cross-
cutting issues around work, family, and child care. Have
them lead the way by streamlining Federal child care
activities and setting an example for the private sector.
Use the Presidential bully pulpit to maximal effectiveness
by building public will to support related legislation.
Focus on employers, large, small, and ambivalent. Recognize
that they fall on a continuum with regard to how far they
have addressed the child care (work/family) agenda. Don't
just focus on the employers who are already partners.
Use CEO's who were in child care as children to deliver the
message. Dollars tend to follow business leaders.
Focus on funding. Don't be shy to talk about funding as an
issue.
Establish a child care investment fund, using the
administrative skill and investment knowledge of the private
sector. Make it a public/private partnership possibly
through matching of community investments.
Encourage business leaders to integrate their current
programs into a multilateral approach to the
work/family/child care issues. For instance, have the
priorities of the corporate foundation in line with the
employee initiatives in the human resource area and family-
focused public relations campaigns.
Leverage off of K-12 involvement and support programs
already underway in the corporate sector. Incorporate child
care into the various programs like "Adopt-A-School"
programs.
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Have a concrete product that comes out of the conference.
Provide earmarked student loans for early childhood
education and training. Provide loan abatement or lower
interest rate incentives to those who remain in the field 3-
4 years.
Maximize the use of our infrastructure by mandating that
school buildings remain open full day/full year. Provide
state and local governments with strategies to finance the
extra hours (e.g., allowing community groups to use the
space.)
Change the perception of providers by recognizing leading
teachers in the field, especially young teachers, to
showcase quality and change the professional image.
Link every other Presidential initiative to young children
and working families.
Conference Program Recommendations:
Link early childhood to K-12 education agenda.
Focus on how to build a more cohesive system with partners
in a variety of sectors.
Explore ways to recruit and retain good people in the field.
It gets harder every year to attract talented people and
harder to retain them.
Focus on child care as a continuum from infancy through
adolescence.
Concerns:
: : you preach to the converted, you will accomplish nothing.
The private sector models that are currently underway are
primarily for families that can afford to pay. The private
sector needs better strategies for dealing with low-wage
workers.
The military model does not work in the private sector
because it relies to heavily on universal subsidy and lacks
the element of competition that is central to the private
employer.
When linking with other systems, be aware that many delivery
systems, especially school systems, are ineffective with
families because they fail to understand cultural/linguistic
diversity.
Don't advocate a one-size-fíts-all approach. Some
communities may have strong school/educational systems on
which to build, while others have a strong network of
community-based organizations.
3
Be aware of the potential to increase tension between those
who can afford to pay and those who cannot.
4
White House Conference Focus Group
June 30, 1997
Participants:
Larry Aber, National Center for Children in Poverty
Judy Appelbaum, National Women's Law Center
Doug Baird, Associated Day Care, Boston
Barbara Bowman, Erikson Institute
John Brooks, YMCA of the USA
Barbara Clinton, Vanderbilt Center for Health Services
Angela Crowley, Nat'l Assoc. of Pediatric Nurse Associates &
Practitioners
Jerlean Daniel, Univ. of Pittsburgh & NAEYC
Elaine Fersh, Parents United for Child Care
Nancy Kolben, Child Care, Inc., New York
Anne Mitchell, Early Childhood Policy Research
Patty Siegel, Calif. Child Care Resources & Referral Network
Sandra Skolnik, Maryland Committee for Children
Rhea Starr, YWCA of the USA
Bernice Weissbourd, Family Focus and Family Resource Center
Lynn White, National Child Care Association
First Thoughts Upon Hearing About the Conference:
)
" How do we go from dialogue to action?"
0
"
An opportunity will be missed if it is just a conference.
There must be a strong follow-on plan."
"
Will he include school-aged children?"
"
How will he sell it to the country?"
,
"
This is a point in a long history, but a critical one. "
Message Recommendations:
0
Working families in America use child care every day. But
what do they currently have access to and how do we build to
meet their needs?
"The strength of the current system is diversity. The
weakness of the current system is how ad hoc it is."
Access to quality is a national priority.
Child care is not just of concern to the child care
community. It is everyone's concern.
Child care is a piece of the bridge to the twenty-first
century.
Partnerships are necessary to get the job done. There must
be solutions on various scales.
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Strategy Recommendations:
Use the following frame: The President and First Lady
articulate a vision of good child care across America. List
the essential elements that are required to fulfill the
vision. Emphasize that there is a lot of work to do and
give people direction on the first steps. Check up on
progress periodically.
Obtain pledges and commitments (perhaps in advance) and then
track and follow-up to ensure that they are carried out,
like with the volunteer summit. Force accountability.
Use child care as one mechanism through which the President
can accomplish his other literacy and education goals.
Launch a commission to investigate financing and ask the
large companies to ante up into a huge public/private
investment fund. The President must put money on the table,
but use it to leverage other funds.
Spawn similar conferences on a State and local scale with
Governors and their spouses and local leaders.
Place the exorbitant cost of quality child care in the
context of the cost of higher education, to which people
already relate.
Foster the support of the middle class.
Conference Program Recommendations:
Confront the issue of resources, which is central and
lacking. The child care system that we talk about is
expensive and we shouldn't pretend that it is not, however
:: saves money in the long run. Without a solid
infrastructure and a 10 or 20 year roadmap, we won't get
there.
Cost out a real, comprehensive, quality system. If you had
accurately predicted for people five years ago the level of
the current new investment, they would have been happy, but
now they feel it is still inadequate, because we lack an
understanding of the actual scope of the need and a sense of
what is required to address it.
Make the connection to working families, especially the
working poor, and portray child care as a crucial element in
keeping parent (s) in the labor force.
Focus on the silent customer in child care, which is the
employer of the parent. Recognize that corporations'
understanding of and efforts to address the child care
situation fall along a continuum. Do not neglect small
employers.
2
Bring in the governors, mayors, business leaders, school
leaders, and others to sell child care to different
constituencies in the country. Have police chiefs sell it
to police chiefs, superintendents to superintendents, etc
Include unlikely allies like the labor unions, religious
organizations, medical professionals, law enforcement, and
the banking and finance industries. People will notice the
messengers and what they represent.
Give people focused recommendations for action and homework,
so that they know what they are supposed to do the day after
the conference.
Have children speak about their experiences in child care
settings of varying quality.
Consider the delivery system very broadly. No matter where
children are cared for, from relative care to center-based
care, quality care in the first decade of a child's life is
crucial to development.
Connect the conference to the brain research to better
demonstrate why early investment in children is important.
Help parents understand what quality child care is from
infancy through school-age.
Have working parents speak for themselves. Highlight diverse
parents and have them describe what they need from
employers, from schools, etc.
Give participants pre-work to do before they attend the
conference. Each participant should investigate the state of
child care in his or her community.
Highlight child care as a system with an infrastructure and
infrastructure needs, like facility and staff development.
Ask: What policies can we have to ensure that all eligible
children get good care?
Include children's health, parents' health, and parental
support.
Use data to make the point.
Avoid highlighting models that may not be transferable to
other settings. Highlight only things which have the
potential to be universal- not a cookie cutter, but a
blueprint.
Concerns:
0
Be aware of the frustration that is building from rehashing
the same problems over and over again. Rather than
exacerbate the frustration, highlight potential solutions.
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Room 180, Old Executive Office Building
Name/Organization
D.O.B/SS#/Country
Phone Number
Yasmina Vinci
393-5501
P6/(b)(6)
National Association of
Child Care Resource and
USA
Referral
Sammie Moshenberg
296-2588
National Council on
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Jewish Women
USA
Barabara Willer
232-8777
P6/(b)(6)
National Association for
Education of Young
USA
Children
Judy Appelbaum
588-5180
P6/(b)(6)
WLC
USA
Karen Nussbaum
637-5064
AFL-CIO
P6/(b)(6)
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Nancy Duff Cambell
588-5180
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National Women's Law
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USA
Nancy Zirkin
785-7720
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AAUW
USA
Joan Entmacher
986-2600
WLDF
Pat Reuss
544-4470
NOW LDF
Lynn White
1-800-543-7161
National Child Care
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Nancy Granese
637-5697
Hogan & Hartson
Sharon Daly
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Children's Defense Fund
USA
Carabelle Pizzagatti
Child Welfare League
Mary Cooper
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USA
Faith Wohl
212-239-0138
Childcare Action
Campaign
Carolyn York, surrogate
429-5090
P6/(b)(6)
for Kathy Colette
AFSCME
USA
Gloria Johnson
785-7209
Coalition of Labor Union
Women
Elena Kagan
6-5584
DPC
Maria Echaveste
6-6594
OPL
Jen Klein
6-2599
DPC
Nicole Rabner
6-6266
DPC
Gene Sperling
6-2620
NEC
Joan Lombardi
401-6947
HHS/Childcare Bureau
Audrey Tayse Haynes
6-7300
Women's Office
Robin Leeds
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Jennifer Klein
Donna M. Klein
Director
Work/Life Programs
Marriott International
Marriott Drive
Washington, DC 20058
Rhea F. Starr
Child Care Advocate
YWCA of the USA
624 9th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001
Sheryl Dicker
Executive Director
Permanent Judicial Commission on Justice for Children
c/o Pace University School of Law
78 North Broadway
White Plains, New York 10603
Nancy Thompson
The Annenberg/ CPB Project
901 E Street, NW
Washington, DC 20004
Joyce E. Butler
P6/(b)(6)
Providence, Rhode Island 02906
Karen A. Cowles
Communications Consortium Media Center
1200 New York Avenue, NW
Suite 300
Washington, DC 20005-1754
Kerby T. Alvy, Ph.D.
Executive Director
Center for the Improvement of Child Caring
11331 Ventura Blvd., Suite 103
Studio City, California 91604
Ruby Takanishi
President
Foundation for Child Development
345 East 46 Street
New York, NY 10017-3562
Mildred M. Winter
Executive Director
Parents as Teachers National Center, Inc.
10176 Corporate Square Drive, Suite 230
St. Louis, Missouri 63132
Yasmina Vinci
Executive Director, NACCRRA
1319 F Street, NW, Suite 810
Washington, DC 20004-1106
Tutti Sherlock
Board Chair, Child Care Aware
1319 F Street, NW, Suite 810
Washington, DC 20004-1106
Giovanna Stark
Executive Director
Child Development Policy Advisory Committee
915 Capitol Mall, Room 336
Sacramento, CA 95814
Angela Crowley
Co-Chair, Child Care Special Interest Group
Yale University School of Nursing
100 Church Street South
PO Box 9740
New Haven, CT 06536-0740
Kristy Liles
Publicis Public Relations
3500 Maple Avenue
Dallas, TX 75219
Augusta Souza Kappner
President
The Bank Street College of Education
610 West 112th St.
New York, NY 10025-1120
Janet L. Mascia
Senior Evaluator
U.S. General Accounting Office
441 G Street, NW
Washington, DC 20548
Carrie Wofford
200 Constitution Ave, NW, Room S3002
Washington, DC 20210
Nicole Rabner
Carey Fleming
Director of Corporate Alliances
Work Life Benefits
539 Fernwood Road
Murrells Inlet, SC 29576
Roger H. Brown
Chief Executive Officer
Bright Horizons Children's Centers
One Kendall Square, Building 200
Cambridge, MA 02139
Rosemary Jordano
President
Children First Inc.
One International Place
Boston, MA 02110
Dee Topol
President
The Travelers Foundation
388 Greenwich Street
New York, NY 10013
Claudia E. Wayne
National Center for the Early Childhood Work Force
733 15th Street, NW, Suite 1037
Washington, DC 20005-2112
Lynn L. White
Executive Director, NCCA
1016 Rosser Street
Conyers, GA 30207
Charles R. Romeo
Director, Employee Benefits
Con Agra Refrigerated Foods Companies
2000 South Batavia Avenue
Geneva, IL 60134
Anna S. Wadia
Senior Program Officer
Ms. Foundation for Women
120 Wall Street, 33rd Floor
New York, NY 10005
Ellen Clippinger
President
National School-Age Care Alliance
4720 North Park
Indianapolis, IN 46205
Madeline Fried
Fried & Sher, Inc.
465 Carlisle Drive
Herndon, VA 20170
Stacie G. Goffin
Senior Program Officer
Youth Development
Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
4900 Oak
Kansas City, Missouri 64112-2776
Deborah Lowe Vandell
NICHD Study of Early Child Care
Wisconsin Center for Education Research
University of Wisconsin School of Education
1025 West Johnson Street
Madison, WI 53706
Martha Farrell Erickson, Ph.D.
Director of Children, Youth, and Family Consortium
University of Minnesota
12 McNeal Hall
1985 Buford Avenue
St. Paul, MN 55108
Matthew E. Melmed
Executive Director, Zero to Three
734 15th Street, NW, Suite 1000
Washington, DC 20005-1013
Margaret M. Petruska
Senior Program Officer and Director HHS Programs
The Heinz Endowments
30 CNG Tower
625 Liberty Avenue
Pittsburg, PA 15222-3115
Kathy Bonk
Executive Director, CCMC
1200 New York Avenue, NW, Suite 300
Washington, DC 20005-1754
Helen Blank
Director, Child Care Division
Children's Defense Fund
25 E Street, N.W.
Washington, DC 20001
WHITE HOUSE MEETING ON CHILD CARE
Monday, June 23, 1997
LIST OF PARTICIPANTS
Carol Brunson-Phillips
Executive Director
Council for Early Childhood Professional Recognition
2460 16th Street NW
Washington, DC 20009-3575
800-424-4310
Voyce Butler
USA Child Care
KCMC Child Development Corporation
2104 East 18th Street
Kansas City, MO 64127-2524
(816) 474-0434
Deborah Eaton
President
National Association for Family Child Care
9167 Berkview Lane
Spring Valley, CA 91977
(619) 466-8340
Abby Griffin
Zero to Three
National Center for Infants, Toddlers and Families
734 15th Street, N.W.
Suite 1000
Washington, D.C. 20005-1013
(202)638-1144
Janice Guerney
American Academy for Pediatrics
601 13th Street, NW, Suite 400 North
Washington, D.C. 20005
(202) 347-8600
Bruce Hershfield
Director, Child Day Care Services
Child Welfare League of America
440 First Street, NW, Suite 310
Washington, DC 20001-2085
(202) 638-2952 x291
VEvelyn Moore
President
National Black Child Development Institute
1023 15th Street, NW, Suite 600
Washington, DC 20005
(202) 387-1281
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* Charleen Muhammad**
replaced Billie Young -- call for address/phone of Muhammad -- Seattle, WA
206/386-1143
Billie Osbourne-Fears
Starting Point for Child Care & Early Education
3135 Euclid, Suite 200
Cleveland, OH 44115
(216) 431-1818
Julie Quaid
Director
Confederated Tribes of the Warm Spring Reservation
P.O. Box C
1257 Kot-Num Road
Warm Springs, OR 97761
(541) 553-3240
Susan Russell
Executive Director
Day Care Services Association
P.O. Box 901
Chapel Hill, NC 27514
(919) 967-3272
Michelle Seligson
Executive Director
School Age Child Care Project
Center for Research on Women
Wellesley College
106 Central Street
Wellesley, MA 02181
(617) 283-2547
Heather Weiss
Harvard Family Research Project
Harvard Graduate School of Education
38 Concord Ave.
Cambridge, MA 02138
(617) 495-9108
WHITE HOUSE MEETING ON CHILD CARE
Monday, June 30, 1997
LIST OF PARTICIPANTS
Larry Aber
National Center for Children in Poverty
Columbia University School of Public Health
154 Haven Avenue
New York, N.Y. 10032
(212) 304-7100
Gordon M. Ambach
Executive Director
Council of Chief State School Officers
1 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Suite 700
Washington, DC 20001-1431
(202) 408-5505
Judy Applebaum
National Women's Law Center
11 Dupont Circle, NW, Suite 800
Washington, DC 20036
(202) 588-5180
Doug Baird
Associated Day Care Services
95 Berkeley Street, Suite 306
Boston, MA 02116
(617) 695-0700
VDr. Barbara Bowman
Erikson Institute for Advanced Study of Child Development
420 North Wabash Avenue
Chicago, IL 60611
(312) 755-2250
VJohn Brooks
Senior Public Policy Associate
YMCA
1701 K Street, NW, Suite 903
Washington, DC 20006
(202) 835-9043
Barbara Clinton
Director
Center for Health Services
Vanderbilt University
Station 17
Nashville, TN 37232-8180
(615) 322-4773
Angela Crowley, MA, APRN, CS, PNP
Associate Professor
Yale University School of Nursing
100 Church Street South
P.O. Box 9740
New Haven, CT 06536-0740
(203) 737-2548
Dr. Jerlean Daniels
Program in Child Development and Child Care
1717 Cathedral of Learning
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
(412) 624-6356
Elaine Fersh
Director
Parents United for Child Care
30 Winter Street, 7th Floor
Boston, MA 02108-4720
(617) 426-8288
Nancy Kolben
Child Care Inc.
275 Seventh Avenue
New York, N.Y. 10001
(212) 929-7604
Anne Mitchell
Early Childhood Policy Research
HCR 1, Box 77
Climax, N.Y. 12042
(518) 966-4585
Gail Richardson
Acting Executive Director Child Care Action Campaign
330 7th Avenue, 17th Floor
New York, N.Y. 10001
(212) 268-6515
VPatty Siegel
California Child Care Resouce & Referral Network
111 New Montgomery Street, 7th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94105
(415) 882-0234
Sandra Skolnik
Executive Director
Maryland Committee for Children, Inc.
608 Water Street
Baltimore, MD 21202
(410) 752-7588
Rhea Starr
Child Care Advocate
YWCA of the USA
726 Broadway
New York, NY 10003
(212) 614-2700
Bernice Weissbourd
President, Family Focus
Family Resource Coalition
310 South Peoria Street
Suite 510
Chicago, IL 60607
(312) 421-5200
VLynn White
National Child Care Association
1016 Rosser Street
Conyers, GA 30012
800-543-7161
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WHITE HOUSE MEETING ON CHILD CARE
Wednesday, June 25, 1997
LIST OF PARTICIPANTS
Randi Botnick
Benton Foundation
1634 Eye Street, NW, 12th Floor
Washington, DC 20006
(202) 638-5770
Kathleen Christensen
Program Officer
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
630 Fifth Avenue, Suite 2550
New York, N.Y. 10111-0242
(212) 649-1649
Deanna Gomby
David and Lucille Packard Foundation
Center for the Future of Children
300 Second Street, Suite 102
Los Altos, CA 94022
(415) 948-3696
Mary Larner
David and Lucille Packard Foundation
Center for the Future of Children
300 Second Street, Suite 102
Los Altos, CA 94022
(415) 948-3696
Michael Levine
Carnegie Corporation of New York
437 Madison Avenue
New York, N.Y. 10022
(212) 371-3200
Luba Lynch
A.L. Mailman Family Foundation
707 Westchester Avenue
White Plains, N.Y. 10604
(914) 681-4448
Margaret Petruska
Director
Health and Human Services Programs
The Howard Heinz Endowment
30 CNG Tower
Pittsburgh, PA 15222
(412) 338-2615
Linda Rich
Pew Charitable Trusts
One Commerce Square
2005 Market Street, Suite 1700
Philadelphia, PA 19103-7017
(215) 575-4866
Pam Stevens
Program Officer
DeWitt Wallace - Reader's Digest Fund
2 Park Avenue, 23rd Floor
New York, N.Y. 10016
(212) 251-9714
Ruby Takaneshi
Foundation for Child Development
345 East 46th Street, Room 700
New York, N.Y. 10017-3562
(212) 697-3150
Dee Topel***
Traveler's Foundation
388 Greenwich Street
New York, N.K. 10013
(212) 816-8000
WHITE HOUSE MEETING ON CHILD CARE
Friday, June 20, 1997
LIST OF PARTICIPANTS
Gordon M. Ambach
Executive Director
Council of Chief State School Officers
1 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Suite 700
Washington, DC 20001-1431
(202) 408-5505
Barbara Ferguson Kamara
DC Dept. of Human Services
Office of Early Childhood Development
717 14th Street NW, #730
Washington, DC 20005
(202) 727-1839
Ellen Galinsky
Co-President
Families and Work Institute
330 Seventh Avenue, 14th Floor
New York, N.Y. 10001
(212) 465-2044
Melinda Green
Executive Director
The Child Care Connection, Inc.
2425 Pennington Road
Trenton, NJ 08638
(609) 737-9243
Roberta Malavenda
Deputy Director for Programs
Save the Children Child Care Support Center
1447 Peachtree Street NE, Suite 700
Atlanta, GA 30309
(404) 479-4202
Carole Quaterman
Project Director
The Family Place
8726 Woodward Avenue
Detroit, MI 48202
(313) 664-0700
Nancy Sconyers
National Association of Child Advocates
Suite 600
1522 K Street, NW
Washington, DC 20006-1202
(202) 289-0777
Tutti Sherlock
Minnesota R & R Network
2116 Campus Drive SE
Rochester, MN 55904
(507) 287-2020
Gail Solit
Director
Gallaudet University Child Development Center
Kendall School, 3rd Floor
800 Florida Avenue, NE
Washington, DC 20004
(202) 651-5130
Alice Walker-Duff
Executive Director
Crystal Stairs
5105 W. Gold Leaf Circle
Los Angeles, CA 90056
(213) 299-8998
Barbara Willer
National Association for the Education of Young Children
1509 16th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20036
800-424-2460
WHITE HOUSE MEETING ON CHILD CARE
Friday, June 27, 1997
LIST OF PARTICIPANTS
Margaret Browning
Director, Work/Life Benefit Programs
Mentor Graphics
8005 SW Boeckman Road
Wilsonville, OR 97070
(503) 685-7997
VJ.T. Childs
Director, Workforce Diversity
IBM
Route 9
Town of Mount Pleasant
North Tarrytown, N.Y. 10591
(914) 332-2000
Michael Day
Brighter Horizons Children's Centers
One Kendall Square, Bldg. 200
Cambridge, MA 02139
(617)-577-8020
Madeline Fried
Principal
Fried and Sher
465 Carlisle Drive
Herndon, VA 20170
(703) 435-1700
Dana Friedman
Senior Vice President
Corporate Family Solutions
14 Vanderventer Avenue, Suite 145
Port Washington, N.Y. 11050
(516) 767-3957
Rosemary Jordano
President
Children First, Inc.
One International Place, 7th Floor
Boston, MA 02110
(617) 330-8687
Chris Kjeldsen
Vice President, Community & Workplace Programs
Johnson & Johnson
One Johnson & Johnson Plaza
New Brunswick, N.J 08933
(732) 524-0400
Donna Klein
Director, Work-Life Program
Marriott International, Inc.
One Marriott Drive, Apt. 93512
Washington, D.C. 20058
(301) 380-6856
Marykay Leonard
Work Family Directions
930 Commonwealth Avenue
Boston, MA 02215
800-346-1535
Barbara Reisman
Executive Director
Schumann Fund for New Jersey
21 Van Vleck Street
Montclaire, N.J. 07042
(201) 509-9883
Charles R. Romeo
Director, Employee Benefits
ConAgra Refrigerated Foods Companies
2000 South Batavia Avenue
Geneva, IL 60134
(630) 262-4067
WHITE HOUSE MEETING ON CHILD CARE
Wednesday, June 18, 1997
LIST OF PARTICIPANTS
Helen Blank
Director
Child Care Division
Children's Defense Fund
25 E Street, N.W.
Washington, DC 20001
(202) 628-8787
Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, Ph.D
Virginia & Leonard Marx Professor
Center for Young Children and Families
Teacher's College
Columbia University
525 West 120th Street, Box 39
New York, N.Y. 10027
(212) 678-3338
Ellen Clippinger
President
National School Age Care Alliance
4720 North Park Ave.
Indianapolis, IN 46205
(317) 283-3817
Townley Hritz
National Head Start Association
1651 Prince Street
Alexandria, VA 22314
(703) 739-0875
Sharon Lynn Kagan
Yale University
Bush Center in Child Development and Social Policy
310 Prospect Street
New Haven, CT 06511
(203) 432-9931
Claudia Wayne
National Center for the Early Childhood Workforce
733 15th Street, NW, Suite 1037
Washington, DC 20005
(202) 737-7700
Janet Wise
National Indian Child Care Association
P.O. Box 580
Okmulgee, OK 74447
(918) 758-1463
Mr. Larry Aber
Mr. Gordon Ambach
National Center for Children in Poverty
Executive Director
Columbia University School of Public Health
Council of Chief State Schools Officers
154 Haven Avenue
1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW
Ney York, NY 10032
Suite 700
Washington, DC 20001-1431
Ms. Helen Blank
Ms. Ellen Clippinger
Director, Child Care Division
President
Children's Defense Fund
National School Age Care Alliance
25 E. Street, NW
4720 North Park
Washington, DC 20001
Indianapolis, IN 46205
Ms. Angela Crowley
Ms. Elaine Fersh
National Association of Pediatric Nurse Associates and
Director
Practioners
Parents United for Child Care
566 Broadview Road
30 Winter Street, 7th Floor
Orange, CT 06477
Boston, MA 02108-5720
Ms. Melinda Green
Ms. Sophia Harris
Executive Director
FOCAL
The Child Care Connection, Inc.
PO Box 214
2425 Pennington Road
Montgomery, AL 36101
Trenton, NJ 08638
Mr. Luis Hernandez
Ms. Sharon Lynn Kagan
Metropolitan Dade County Child Development Services Resource
Yale University
and Referral
Bush Center for Child Development in Social Policy
111 NW Street, Suite 2210
310 Prospect Street
Miami, FL 33128
New Haven, CT 06520
Ms. Deena Lahn
Ms. Antonia Lopez
Child Care Law Center
National Council of La Raza
22 Second Street, 5th floor
111 19th Street, NW
San Francisco, CA 94105
Suite 1000
Washington, DC 20036
Ms. Evelyn Moore
Ms. Gwen Morgan
Executive Director
Center for Career Development in Early Care and Education
National Black Child Development Institute
Wheelock College
1023 15th Street, NW
200 The River Way
Suite 600
Boston, MA 02215
Washington, DC 20005
Ms. Gail Richardson
Ms. Deborah Vandell
Acting Executive Director
University of Wisconsin
Child Care Action Campaign
Department of Education
330 7th Avenue, 17th Floor
1025 West Johnson
New York, NY 10001
Madison
WI, 53706
Ms. Janet Wise
Mr. Billie Young
National Indian Child Care Association
Manager
279 East 137th Street
Child Development Programs
Glenpool, OK 74033
Family and Youth Services
618 2nd Avenue, 4th Floor
Seattle, WA 98104-2232
Ms. Becky Barerra
Mr. John Brooks
National Latino Children's Agenda
Senior Public Policy Associate
1611 West 6th Street
YMCA
Austin, TX 78703
1701 K Street, NW
Suite 903
Washington, DC 20006
Ms. Barbara Clinton
Ms. Martha Erickson
Director
Children, Youth, and Family Consortium
Center for Health Services
University of Minnesota
Vanderbilt University
12 McNeal Hall
Station 17
1985 Buford Avenue
Nashville, TN 37232-8180
St. Paul, MN 55108
Ms. Barbara Ferguson Kamara
Ms. Nancy Kolben
DC Dept. of Human Services
Child Care, Inc.
Office of Early Childhood Development
275 Seventh Avenue
717 14th Street, NW #730
New York, NY 10001
Washington, DC 20005
Ms. Ellen Galinsky
Ms. Sarah Greene
Co-President
CEO
Families and Work Institute
National Head Start Association
330 Seventh Avenue, 14th Floor
1651 Prince Street
New York, NY 10001
Alexandria, VA 22314
Mr. Ronald Lally
Ms. Roberta Malavenda
Director
Deputy Director for Programs
Center for Child and Family Studies
Save the Children Child Care Support Program
WestEd
1447 Peachtree Street, NE
180 Harbor Dr., Suite 112
Suite 700
Sausalito, CA 94965
Atlanta, GA 30309
Ms. Deborah Phillips
Ms. Carole Quarterman
Staff Director
Project Director
National Research Council Board on Children, Youth and
The Family Place
Families
8726 Woodward Avenue
2101 Constitution Avenue, NW
Detroit, MI 48202
Harris Bldg, Room 156
Washington, DC 20418
Ms. Nancy Sconyers
Ms. Michelle Seligson
National Association of Child Advocates
Executive Director
Suite 600
School Age Child Care Project
1522 K Street, NW
Wellesley College
Washington, DC 20006-1202
Center for Research on Women
Wellesley, MA 02181
Ms. Gail Solit
Ms. Yasmina Vinci
Director
Executive Director
Gallaudet University Child Development Center
National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral
Kendall School, 3rd Floor
Agencies
800 Florida Avenue, NE
1319 F Street, NW
Washington, DC 20002
Suite 810
Washington, DC 20004
Ms. Alice Walker-Duff
Ms. Lynn White
Executive Director
National Child Care Association
Crystal Stairs
1029 Railroad Street
5105 W. Gold Leaf Circle
Conyers, GA 30207
Los Angeles, CA 90056
Ms. Barbara Willer
Mr. Ron Areglado
National Association for the Education of Young Children
Associate Executive Director for Programs
1509 16th Street, NW
National Association of Elementary School Principles
Washington, DC 20036
1515 Duke Street
Alexandria, VA 22314-3483
Ms. Duffy Campbell
Ms. Deborah Eaton
National Women's Law Center
President
11 Dupont Circle, NW
National Association for Family Child Care
Suite 800
9167 Berkview Lane
Washington, DC 20036
Spring Valley, CA 91977
Ms. Billie Warford
Mr. Bruce Hershfield
Montana Early Childhood Project
Director, Child Day Care Services
117 Herrick Hall
Child Welfare League of America
Montana State University
440 First Street, NW
Bozeman, MT 59717
Suite 310
Washington, DC 20001-2085
Mr. Matthew Melmed
Ms. Billie Osbourne-Fears
Executive Director
Starting Point for Child Care & Early Education
Zero to Three
3135 Euclid, Suite 301
National Center for Clinical Infant Programs
Cleveland, OH 44115
734 15th Street, NW, 10th Floor
Washington, DC 20005-2101
Dr. Robert Hannenmann
Dr. James Poole
American Academy of Pediatrics
American Academy of Pediatrics- North Carolina
2600 Greenbush Street
270 Horizon Drive
Lafayette, IN 47904
Raleigh, NC 27615
Ms. Julie Quaid
Ms. Susan Russell
Director
Executive Director
Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation
Day Care Services Association
PO Box C
PO Box 901
1257 Kot-Num Road
Chapel Hill, NC 27514
Warm Springs, OR 97761
Ms. Tutti Sherlock
Ms. Patty Siegel
Minnesota R & R Network
California Child Care Institute
2116 Campus Drive, SE
California Resource & Referral Network
Rochester, MN 55904
111 New Montgomery Street, 7th floor
San Francisco, CA 94105
Ms. Rhea Starr
Ms. Shirley Stubbs-Gillette
Child Care Advocate
USA Child Care
YWCA of the USA
KCMC Child Development Corporation
512 Bean Blosom Drive
2104 East 18th Street
Lancaster, PA 17603
Kansas City, MO 64127-2524
Ms. Claudia Wayne
Ms. Heather Weiss
National Center for the Early Chilhood Workforce
Harvard Family Research Project
733 15th Street, NW
Harvard Graduate School of Education
Suite 800
Longfellow Hall
Washington, DC 20005
Appian Way
Cambridge, MA 02138
Ms. Bernice Weissbourd
Mr. Norman Yee
President, Family Focus
Executive Director
Family Resource Coalition
Wu Yee Children's Services
310 South Peoria Street
831 Broadway
Suite 510
San Francisco
Chicago, IL 60607
CA, 94108
Ms. Kathleen Christensen
Mr. Larry Kirkman
Program Officer
Executive Director
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Benton Foundation
Suite 2550
1634 Eye Street, NW
630 Fifth Avenue
Washington, DC 20006
New York, NY 10111-0242
Ms. Mary Larner
Ms. Deanna Gombey
David and Lucille Packard Foundtion
David and Lucille Packard Foundation
Center for the Future of Children
Center for the Future of Children
300 Second Street, Suite 102
300 Second Street, Suite 102
Los Altos, CA 94022
Los Altos, CA 94022
Mr. Michael Levine
Ms. Janet Levy
Carnegie Corporation of New York
Annie E. Casey Foundation
437 Madison Avenue
701 St. Paul Street
New York, NY 10022
Baltimore, MD 21202
Ms. Luba Lynch
Ms. Janice Molnar
A.L. Mailman Famly Foundation
Ford Foundation
707 Westchester Avenue
Urban Poverty Program
White Plains, NY 10604
320 East 43rd Street
New York, NY 10017
Ms. Marge Patrusca
Ms. Barbara Reisman
Director
Executive Director
Health and Human Services Programs
Schumann Fund of New Jersey
The Howard Heinz Endowment
21 Van Vleck Street
330 CNG Tower
Montclaire, NJ 07042
Pittsburgh, PA 15222
Ms. Linda Rich
Ms. Pam Stevens
Pew Charitable Trusts
Program Officer
One Commerce Square
DeWitt Wallace -- Reader's Digest Fund
200 Market Street, Suite 1700
2 Park Avenue, 23rd Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19103-7017
New York, NY 10016
Ms. Ruby Takaneshi
Ms. Dee Topel
Foundation for Child Development
Traveler's Foundation
345 East 46th Street
388 Greenwich Street
Room 700
New York, NY 10013
New York, NY 10017-3562
Ms. Valora Washington
Ms. Wilma Wells
W.K. Kellogg Foundation
The Danforth Foundation
One Michigan Avenue East
231 South Bemiston Avenue
Battle Creek, MI 49017-4058
Suite 1080
St Louis, MO 63105-1996
Ms. Caroline Zinnser
Dr. Stacie Goffin
Rockefeller Brothers Fund
Ewing Marion:Kauffman Foundation
1290 Avenue of the Americas
4900 Oak Street
Room 3450
Kansas City, MO 64112-2776
New York, NY 10104
Mr. Roger Brown
Ms. Margaret Browning
Chief Executive Officer
Director, Work/Life Benefit Programs
Bright Horizons Children's Centers
Mentor Graphics
One Kendall Square
8005 SW Boeckman Road
Building 200
Wilsonville, OR 97068
Cambridge, MA 02139
Mr. Ted Childs
Ms. Madeline Fried
Director, Workforce Diversity
Principal
IBM
Fried and Scher
Route 9
465 Carlisle Drive
Town of Mount Pleasant
Herndon, VA 20170
North Tarrytown, NY 10591
Ms. Dana Friedman
Ms. Kimberly Hains
Senior Vice President
Senior Vice President for Work and Family
Corporate Family Solutions
Nationsbank
Suite 145
NCI-021-02-05
14 Vanderventer Avenue
401 North Trycon Street
Port Washington, NY 11050
Charlotte, NC 28255
Ms. Rosemary Jordano
Mr. Chris Kjeldsen
President
Vice President, Community & Workplace Programs
Children First, Inc.
Johnson & Johnson
One International Place
One Johnson & Johnson Plaza
7th Floor
New Brunswick, NJ 08933
Boston, MA 02110
Ms. Donna Klein
Ms. Fran Rodgers
Director, Work-Life Program
Work Family Directions
Marriott International
930 Commonwealth Avenue West
10400 Fernwood Road
Boston, MA 02215
Bethesda, MD 20817
Mr. Charles Romeo
Ms. Kathy Zweber
Director, Employee Benefits
Director, Work Life and Wellness Initiatives
ConAgra Refrigerated Foods Companies
Motorola
2000 South Batavia Avenue
1303 East Algonquin Road
Geneva, IL 60134
Schaumberg, IL 60196
Dr. Barbara Bowman
Dr. Jerlean Daniels
Erikson Institute for Advanced Study of Child Development
University of Pittsburgh
420 North Wabash Avenue
Cathedral of Learning, Room 1717
Chicago IL, 60611
4200 Fifth Avenue
Pittsburgh PA, 15260
Ms. Anne Mitchell
Ms. Louise Stoney
Early Childhood Policy Research
Louise Stoney Associates
HCR 1 Box 77
10 Tillinghast Ave.
Honey Hollow Road
Albany NY, 12204
Climax NY, 12042
Mr. Doug Baird
Ms. Susan Muenchow
Associated Day Care Services
Florida Children's Forum
95 Berkeley Street, 3rd Floor
259 East 7th Avenue
Boston MA, 02116
Tallahassee FL, 32308
Ms. Bobbie Webber
CCR&R of Linn and Benton Counties
Department of Family Resources
6500 SW Pacific Blvd.
Albany OR, 97321
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
June 9, 1997
Mr. Larry Aber
National Center for Children in Poverty
Columbia University School of Public Health
154 Haven Avenue
Ney York, NY 10032
Dear Mr. Aber:
Improving the quality, accessibility and affordability of child care in our country is a
priority for the President and his Administration. As you may know, the President recently
announced that he and the First Lady will host a White House Conference on Child Care this fall
to explore the strengths and weaknesses of child care delivery and discuss ways to improve it.
Because we know you share the President's commitment, and because of your impressive
work in the area of child care, we are eager to hear your views and benefit from your experience
as we develop the White House Conference. Please join us and other leaders in the child care
field on June 30, 1997 at 3:00 p.m. in Room 472 Old Executive Office Building for an informal
discussion. Please call Laura Emmett at 202-456-5584 with your dob and ssn if you can join us.
If you cannot attend, please feel free to send us your thoughts and guidance, to Nicole Rabner,
Office of the First Lady, The White House, Washington, D.C. 20502.
We look forward to working with you.
Sincerely yours,
meen Denn
Eleakey
Melanne Verveer
Elena Kagan
Assistant to the President
Deputy Assistant to the President
and Chief of Staff to the First Lady
for Domestic Policy
July 18, 1997
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Thank you very much for joining us to discuss the upcoming White House Conference on
Child Care. The meeting was valuable to us both in shaping the conference and exploring policy
options.
We encourage you to continue to advise us. Please send written comments to Jennifer
Klein, Special Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy, 2nd floor West Wing, The White
House, Washington, D.C. 20502, or feel free to call Jennifer or Nicole Rabner at (202)456-6266.
We hope that the White House Conference will make the compelling case -- which we
heard from so many of you -- that making quality child care more affordable and accessible is
good for the economy and central to a productive American workforce, as well as critical to our
children's healthy development and ability to learn.
Thank you for your important contribution.
Sincerely yours,
Elena Kagan
Deputy Assistant to the President
For Domestic Policy
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