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WHITE HOUSE CONFERENCE ON CHILD CARE
OVERVIEW
10:00-10:30 OPENING SESSION
10:00-10:10 The First Lady welcomes, makes remarks, and introduces the video.
10:10-10:16
Video is shown.
provider intro
10:16-10:18
Parent introduces the President.
10:18-10:33
The President makes remarks.
10:33-12:00 PANEL DISCUSSION:
THE CHALLENGE: AVAILABILITY, AFFORDABILITY, AND
ASSURING SAFETY AND QUALITY IN CHILD CARE
The President and First Lady will moderate this session.
Panelists:
The President
The First Lady
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Ellen Galinsky, President and Co-Founder, Families and Work Institute.
Michelle Seligson, Founder and Director, National Institute on Out-of-School
Time.
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Secretary Robert Rubin, Secretary of the Treasury.
Secretary Donna Shalah Secretary of Health and Human Services.
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Governor Hunt, Governor of North Carolina.
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Valora Washington, Program Director, W.K. Kellogg Foundation.
Patty Siegel, Executive Director, California Child Care Resource and
Referral Network.
12:00-2:00
WHITE HOUSE LUNCHEON AND WORKING SESSIONS AT FEDERAL
AGENCIES
several
The First Lady will host the White House luncheon at which tbck Members of Congress
will speak. In addition, Secretaries Shalala, Herman, Riley and Glickman will host
working sessions at several agencies with assembled groups who will watch White
House proceedings by satellite.
2:00-4:00
PANEL DISCUSSION:
LEARNING FROM WHAT WORKS
2:00-2:05
The First Lady welcomes and introduces the Vice President.
2:05-2:15
The Vice President makes remarks and introduces Secretary Richard Riley.
2:15-2:20
Secretary Riley makes remarks.
The FL
Panelists: S-VP P
first name
Secretary Richard Riley, Secretary of Education.
Major General Meyer, Chief of Public Affairs United States Army.
Jane Maroney, State Legislator, State of Delaware.
Dr. Susan Aronson, Member of the American Academy of Pediatrics, National
Board.
tbd Faith,
tbd Labor,
Doug Price, President of FirstBank of Colorado.
4:00-6:00
SOUTH LAWN RECEPTION
The First Lady will host a reception for White House and federal agency participants on the whick Home
South Lawn. Mrs. Clinton will make remarks and report on the federal agency working
sessions. In addition, tbd Members of Congress will make brief remarks.
several
White House Conference on Child Care
Panel One
THE CHALLENGE: AVAILABILITY, AFFORDABILITY, AND
ASSURING SAFETY AND QUALITY IN CHILD CARE
Participants
The President
The First Lady
Ellen Galinksy
Michelle Seligson
Secretary Robert Rubin
Secretary Donna Shalala
Governor sames Hunt
Valora Washington
Patty Siegel
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House Conference on Child Care
Description and Goals
The White House Conference on Child Care
Panel One: Description and Goals
The purpose of the first panel discussion is to recast child care as an issue in which every
American has a stake and to engage the panel participants, who are leading child care experts, in
a dialogue of where we as a nation should go from here to address the critical child care
challenges -- availability, affordability, and assuring safety and quality in child care.
The first panel discussion will address two questions. The first, "why does child care matter,"
will be explored by experts in terms of the importance of quality child care for our youngest
children, for our youth (school-age care), and for our economy and workforce. The second
question, "how are we doing as a nation in meeting child care challenges," will be examined
from macro and micro perspectives, addressing the state of affairs in child care for our nation, for
states, for communities, and for front-line providers and parents.
Through the presentations and follow-up questions, the discussion should center around the three
key child care challenges -- availability, affordability, and assuring safety and quality in child
care. In each of these areas, a number of issues should be aired. In terms of availability, key
issues include: 1) too few good choices exist for parents, and 2) even when good child care
exists, it is often priced out of reach for working parents. In terms of affordability, the
government levers that help parents meet child care costs should be discussed -- the Child and
Dependent Care Tax Credit and the Child Care Development Block Grant. In addition, rising
child care costs as a percentage of family income should be raised, in particular for families of
middle income levels -- making too much to qualify for assistance but too little to be able to
absorb high child care costs. Finally, safety and quality issues for discussion will include: 1) the
studies that reveal a quality crisis both in center-based care and family day care settings, 2)
controversies surrounding the federal role in setting and encouraging health and safety standards,
and 3) the trade-offs in terms of affordability of investing in quality.
White House Conference on Child Care
Suggested Script
MORNING SESSION
THE FIRST LADY welcomes, makes remarks, and introduces the video.
Video (6 minutes ) is shown.
Cathy Carliner (parent featured in video) introduces the PRESIDENT.
The PRESIDENT makes remarks.
The PRESIDENT and FIRST LADY join PANEL DISCUSSION.
PANEL DISCUSSION
THE FIRST LADY will introduce the seven members of the panel:
Ellen Galinsky, President and Co-Founder, Families and Work Insititute.
Michelle Seligson, Founder and Director, National Insitute on Out-of-School Time.
Secretary Rubin, Secretary of the Treasury.
Secretary Shalala, Secretary of Health and Human Services.
Governor Hunt, Governor of North Carolina.
Valora Washington, Program Director, W.K. Kellogg Foundation.
Patty Siegel, Executive Director, California Child Care Resource and Referral Network.
Ellen Galinsky, President and Co-Founder, Families and Work Institute.
Lead in question for the FIRST LADY: Ellen Galinsky is going to start off by
addressing why child care is important for young children and tell us a little bit
about recent research in neuroscience and child development.
any then
Suggested follow-up for the PRESIDENT: Ellen, there are some who suggest that
setting
parents are the only good caregivers for children and therefore child care will
always be a failure. Would you please address that?
Suggested follow-up for the FIRST LADY: Ellen, please speak more about how we
can all do a better job of empowering parents to make choices about working and
child care that are best for their families?
Lead-in for the PRESIDENT: Let's turn now to Michelle Seligson will tell us about
the importance of school-age care to children's development, school-readiness, and
safety.
Michelle Seligson - Founder and director, National Institute on Out-of-School Time, formerly
the School-Age Child Care Project at Wellesley College Center for Research on Women.
Suggested follow-question for the FIRST LADY: I know there is quite a debate over
where before and after school programs should be located -- in schools, in
community centers, or in church basements. Can you speak to that?
Suggested follow-up for the PRESIDENT: What is your opinion in another debate
over the face of after-school programs. Are after-school programs only valuable if
they're academically oriented?
Lead-in for the PRESIDENT: I'm now going to ask Secretary Rubin to address the
significance of child care to our nation's economy.
Secretary Rubin, Secretary of the Treasury.
PRESIDENT
Suggested follow-up for the FIRST LADY. You are about to lead a short-term
working group of business and community leaders to examine child care issues; can
you share with us some of what you might be looking at?
FIRST LADY,
The PRESIDENT will introduce the next section: We are now going to turn to four
experts who will address how we're doing in meeting the challenges of child care
from a variety of perspectives: on the national level, the state perspective, from
within communities, and on the front lines.
The panelists are:
Secretary Donna Shalala, Secretary of Health and Human Services.
Governor Hunt, Governor of North Carolina.
Valora Washinton, Program Director, W.K. Kellogg Foundation.
Patty Siegel, Executive Director, California Child Care Resource and Referral Network.
FIRST CADY
Lead-in for the PRESIDENT: Secretary Shalala, please give us an assessment and
overview of how we're doing as a nation.
Suggested follow-up for the FIRST LADY: How has Head Start been effective in
meeting child care needs and what can we learn from the Head Start experience?
Suggested follow-up for the PRESIDENT: It's clear from what we've heard, that
there is a lot of good child care out there, a lot of bad child care, and a lot that's in
between. If states or the federal government examine investing more funds, how
would you suggest we target those funds?
PRESIDENT
Lead-in for the FIRST LADY: We'll now hear from Governor Hunt from whom we
have a lot to learn with respect to child care. Governor Hunt?
Governor Hunt, Governor of North Carolina.
Suggested follow-up for the PRESIDENT: Governor Hunt, if we target efforts to
improve quality, are we risking pricing care out of reach of working families? Have
you addressed this in North Carolina?
Suggested follow-up for the FIRST LADY: By law, states must set aside a portion of
their federal child care dollars for efforts to improve quality. The President fought
hard for this provision in the Personal Responsibility Act. What more can the
federal government do to encourage states to make needed health and safety
improvements?
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Lead-in for the FIRST LADY: Now let's hear from Valora Washington about the
perspective of communities in addressing child care.
Valora Washington, Program Director, W.K. Kellogg Foundation.
Suggested follow-up for the FIRST LADY: How can we engage those in a community
who don't think this issue affects them?
Suggested follow-up for the PRESIDENT: You've talked a lot about the importance
of community investment in child care. Would you also speak about the cost to
communities of making that investment?
Lead-in for the PRESIDENT: We're now going to hear from our final expert, Patty
Siegel about what is arguably the most important perspective - the front lines -
parents and providers:
Patty Siegel, Executive Director, Child Care Resource and Referral Network.
Suggested follow-up for the FIRST LADY: What more can we do to support parents,
particularly as they struggle with questions about child care?
Suggested follow-up for the PRESIDENT: You paint a picture of child care in the
country that is compelling and that evokes concern. Based on your experience, what
should our next steps be?
The PRESIDENT makes closing remarks.
The FIRST LADY makes closing remarks, and invites guests to lunch in the Dining Room.
White House Conference on Child Care
Panel One Participants
Ellen Galinsky. President and Co-Founder, Families and Work Institute. Ms. Galinsky will
address why quality child care is important for young children, based on recent research in
neuroscience and child development, and examine how child care in the United States today falls
short of the need.
Before founding the Families and Work Institute, Ms. Galinsky served on the faculty of Bank
Street College of Education and as President of the National Association for the Education of
Young Children (NAEYC). She has been an advisor to the U.S. Department of Education on
business and family involvement in education, and the U.S. Department of Labor. She has also
served as an advisor to many states on their early education and care initiatives and on work and
family issues.
Under Ms. Galinsky's leadership, the Families and Work Institute, which is a non-profit,
national center for policy research on issues of the changing workforce and changing family
lives, is directing a number of studies ranging from the quality of child care in America to an
examination of the work, family and personal lives of U.S. workers. In addition to these studies,
Ms. Galinsky, in conjunction with the National Governor's Association and the National Center
for Children in Poverty, is directing an effort to provide technical assistance to several states as
they work to develop a comprehensive, integrated agenda for young children. She is also
coordinating the outreach activities for a public awareness campaign of what families and
communities can do to promote their young children's healthy development and school
readiness.
Ms. Michelle Seligson. Founder and director, National Institute on Out-of-School Time,
formerly the School-Age Child Care Project at Wellesley College Center for Research on
Women.
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Before founding the SACCProject Ms. Seligson was the Assistant Director of the Human
Relations/Youth Resources Commission of Brookline, MA, where she developed a city-wide
system of parent-administered after-school programs in the public schools. The project gained
national recognition and inspired the creation of the SACCProject. The SACCProject has been
active in calling attention to the problems facing latchkey children and their families.
SACCProject serves as a research, training and policy institute focusing on how children spend
their out-of-school time. The National Institute on Out-of-School Time's mission is to improve
the quantity and quality of school-aged care programs nationally, by concentrating its efforts in
five primary areas: research, education and training, consultation, program and community
development and public awareness. Their work has culminated in the MOST Initiative, a $6.5
million initiative, for which she is Executive Director.
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Dr. Valora Washington. Program Director, W.K. Kellogg Foundation.
The author of six books and over forty publications, Dr. Washington joined The Kellogg
Foundation after serving as Vice President and tenured professor of Antioch College in Ohio,
and having held both faculty and administrative posts at other Universities throughout the
country. She has received several honors for her work on behalf of children and families; most
recently in February 1997 when(she was named one of "25 most influential working mothers" by
Working Mothers Magazine.
Having worked for over six years as Program Director for the Kellogg Foundation, where she
served concurrently as program Vice President between 1991 1995, she has created and managed
a variety of initiatives in excess of $86 million around the theme of expanding community
engagement in supporting children, youth and families. Some of their projects include: $2
million targeted to science education in low achieving elementary schools, Throughtich where they succeed in
raising test scores,and inereasing parent and community involvementand $17 million in school
readiness and child care focused on core variables of successes across a variety of community,
cultural, and school were vaised contexts.
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Patty Siegel. Executive Director, California Child Care Resource and Referral Network (R&R
Network).
Ms. Siegel's involvement in the development and delivery of child care services dates back to
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1970 which has allowed her to combine perspectives as a teacher, as a parent-organizer and as
on
the founding director of one of the nation's first child care resource and referral agencies, The
Children's Council/Childcare Switchboard in San Francisco.
In her current role as Executive Director, Ms. Siegel is an active participant in shaping state and
federal policy for children and families. Her current work includes the Child Care Initiative
Project, a $7 million dollar statewide public-private partnership to expand the supply of licensed
quality child care by recruiting and training new family child care providers, with special
emphasis on infants and toddlers and Spanish speaking communities. In 1995, she received one
a of the Leadership Awards from the Children's Defense Fund.
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White House Conference on Child Care
Panel Two
LEARNING FROM WHAT WORKS
Participants
The First Lady
The Vice President
Secretary of Education Richard Riley
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Major General'Meyer
Jane Maroney
Dr. Susan Aronson
TBD Religious Leader
TBD Labor Leader
Mr. Doug Price
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Description and Goals
The White House Conference on Child Care
Panel Two: Description and Goals
The purpose of the afternoon panel discussion is to learn from what works and to explore the
roles of various sectors of society in meeting the critical child care challenges -- availability,
affordability, and assuring safety and quality in child care. Panel participants -- from the
businessman to the Army General to the pediatrician -- have been leaders in their own
communities in improving child care and will share their own experiences. More important, they
will each address what their experiences say about the roles and responsibilities of the sectors of
society they represent.
This panel provides an important opportunity to elicit counsel about where to target any
additional resources for child care improvements.
Suggested Script
AFTERNOON SESSION
The FIRST LADY welcomes and introduces the panelists and the VICE PRESIDENT.
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The VICE PRESIDENT makes remarks and introduces Secretary Riley.
Secretary Richard Riley makes opening presentation.
We'll begin by heaving from Glagor Gen Meyer.
Lead-in for the FIRST LADY: His particularly appropriate to have Major General
him Meyer with us today, to discuss the strength of the military's child care programs, to
with which, incidentally, I am personally familiar, havinglvisited been Quantico
Marine Base only a number of weeks ago. The President asked the miltary to share
its child care expertise with the civilian child care community because of its
exemplary system. Major General Meyer please tell us about how the military has
succeeded in making its child care programs so strong.
Last goving,
General Meyer Chief of Public Affairs United States Army.
Suggested follow-up for the VICE PRESIDENT: You've said that the military did not
always have the model child care system it has today. Can you speak more about
what propelled the improvements?
Suggested follow-up for the FIRST LADY: There are many who argue that the
military is not a useful model because if its uniqueness. What are your thoughts on
this?
Lead-in for the VICE PRESIDENT: We'll now turn to Jane Maroney for another
perspective of the role the state.
Jane Maroney, State Legislator, Delaware.
Suggested follow-up for the FIRST LADY: What do you think our next steps should
be as a nation; more specifically, what do you think the federal role should be?
can
Lead-in for the VICE PRESIDENT: Dr. Susan Aronson is with us to address the role
health professionals play in improving the quality of child care, with special
attention to health and safety.
Susan Aronson Member, American Academy of Pediatrics, National Board.
Suggested follow-up for the VICE PRESIDENT: How can the health community help
to address child care needs of children with chronic illnesses like asthma or with
disabilities?
Suggested follow-up for the FIRST LADY with: National health and safety standards
are very controversial, as states today define their own standards, with guidance
from the federal government. Yet we know that children's health and safety needs
in Nevada are no different than those in New Jersey -- Can you address this? I'd
also like Jane Maroney to address this 'yhe
to ask
Suggested follow-up for the VICE PRESIDENT: Linking the health and child care
communities seems to be a key to improving quality -- how can we build on existing
efforts?
Lead-in for the FIRST LADY:
TBD Religious Leader title. speaks, addressing the role of the religious community in meeting
child care needs.
Suggested follow-up for the VICE PRESIDENT: Religious institutions have long
contributed to child care. In your view, how can we build on these efforts and
engage religious leader to use their moral authority in communities to make further
progress?
Suggested follow-up for the FIRST LADY: What are your views about how we can
support parents who stay at home?
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Lead-in for the VICE PRESIDENT: As we've learned, the key to quality child care is
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Suggested follow-up for the FIRST LADY:
VP/HRC Question:
Lead-in for the FIRST LADY: Doug Price is with us to discuss the role of business
leaders in meeting child care needs.
Doug Price President of FirstBank of Colorado, and Chair, Colorado Business Commission.
Suggested follow-up for the FIRST LADY: How can we enlist more business leaders
to address the child care needs of their workers and of the communities in which
they have a presence?
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PRESIDENT should follow up with: How can we address the barriers that
small businesses face in addressing child care issues?
The VICE PRESIDENT makes closing remarks.
The FIRST LADY makes closing remarks and invites guests to South Lawn Reception.
White House Conference on Child Care
Panel Two
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Panel
Participants
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The Vice President
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Secretary Richard Riley. (stet Secretary Riley is the Secretary of Education.
During the President's first term, Secretary Riley helped launch historic initiatives to raise
academic standards; to improve instruction for the poor and disadvantaged; to expand federal
grants and loan programs to help more Americans go to college; to prepare young people for the
world of work; and to improve teaching. He also helped to create the Partnership for Family
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Involvement in Education, which today includes over 3,000 groups. In the second term,
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Secretary Riley has helped win an historic ruling by the F.C.C. to give schools and libraries deep
discounts for Internet access and telecommunications services and helped win major
on
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Improvements in the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.
Major General John G. Meyer, Jr. Chief of Public Affairs United States Army. Prior to 8 heading
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Major General John G. "Gil" Meyer, Jr. formulates Army public affairs policies and
affairs
advises the Secretary of the Army and the Chief of Staff, Army, and other senior Army and
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Department of Defense leaders officials on public affairs matters relating to the Army. As the former
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Commanding General of the Army's Community and Family Support Center, Major General
served
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Meyer was the proponent of all family programs including child development programs.
Additionally Under his leadership, the Army Child Development program, was able Gen to achievea
National accreditation rate of 85%, compared to the national average of 5% He was
Mayer
instrumental in helping the Army lead the military in meeting the need for child care.
which includes all
Ms. Jane Maroney.
improving its and
child care programs
Dr. Susan Aronson. Member, American Academy of Pediatrics, National Board. Dr. Aronson
will address the role of health professionals in improving the quality of child care, specifically in
improving health and safety
Dr. Aronson's involvement with the American Academy of Pediatrics spans over twenty
years, to her most recent position as the protrict District Chairperson for District TH. As the director of
the Pennsylvania American Academy of Pediatrics Early Childhood Education Linkage System,
she runs a state-wide program to improve health and safety in child day care programs by
providing technical assistance inkage and training of -health professionals and early care and
education professionals. She serves as the co-chair of the Central Steering Committee for the
second edition of the National Standards for Health and Safety in Out-of-Home Child Care, a
we meaning accredited by the independent NARIAC
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joint project of the American Academy of Pediatrics, American public Health Association and
the Maternal and Child Health Bureau of HHS. She has won numerous awards, most recently
the Flashes of Brilliance - Gold Award for 1994 Brochures Category from the Academy for
Health Services Marketing. Dr. Aronson is also and a Primary Care Pediatrician at St. Christopher's
Hospital for Children in Philadelphia, in addition to being a Clinical Professor in the Department
of Pediatrics at the Hahnemann School of Medicine.
Religious tbd.
Labor tbd.
Mr. Doug Price. President of FirstBank of Colorado.
corporate executives and
Colorados
As chairman of Governor Roy Romer's Colorado Business Commission on Child Care
Financing, Mr. Price is leading the effort to examine the needs of working parents and their
children. Among other accomplishments the Commission has promoted business awareness
through statewide meetings with key business leaders, the Governor, and top executives to
discuss the economic and social benefits of employers creating a parent-friendly work places He
also serves as president of the Food Bank of the Rockies, a non-profit food distribution agency in
Colorado, which annually handles over 10 million pounds of food and provides an estimated
700,000 meals each month. And Chairman of the Center City Housing Council of the
Downtown Denver Partnership.
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He also serves as
SOUTH LAWN RECEPTION
The FIRST LADY welcomes and makes brief remarks, reporting on working sessions of
Cabinet members from the different agencies, and introductions for tbd Members of Congress.
Tbd Members of Congress make remarks.
The First Lady makes closing remarks.
AGENDA WPD
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2:20-4:00
The Vice President and the First Lady will moderate this session. State and
local officials, along with representatives of the military, business, health, labor, and faith
communities, will highlight promising efforts around the country and discuss how all members
of the community can address the critical child care challenges -- availability, affordability and
assuring safety and quality in child care.
Panelists:
HRC
VP
Secretary Richard Riley, Secretary of Education.
Jane Maroney, State Legislator, State of Delaware.
Dr. Susan Aronson, Member of the American Academy of Pediatrics, National
Board.
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Major General Meyer, Chief of Public Affairs United States Army.
Doug Price, President of FirstBank of Colorado.
tbd Labor,
tbd Faith,
4:00-6:00
SOUTH LAWN RECEPTION
The First Lady will host a reception for White House and federal agency participants on the
South Lawn. Mrs. Clinton will make remarks and report on the federal agency working
sessions. In addition, tbd Members of Congress will make brief remarks.
AGENDA. WPD
Page 1
WHITE HOUSE CONFERENCE ON CHILD CARE
OVERVIEW
10:00-10:30 OPENING SESSION
10:00-10:10 The First Lady welcomes, makes remarks, and introduces the video.
10:10-10:16 Video is shown.
10:16-10:18 Parent introduces the President.
10:18-10:33 The President makes remarks.
10:33-12:00 PANEL DISCUSSION:
THE CHALLENGE: AVAILABILITY, AFFORDABILITY, AND
ASSURING SAFETY AND QUALITY IN CHILD CARE
The President and First Lady will moderate this session.
Panelists:
The President
The First Lady
Ellen Galinsky, President and Co-Founder, Families and Work Institute.
Michelle Seligson, Founder and Director, National Institute on
Out-of-School
Time, Wellesley College Center for Research on Women.
Secretary Robert Rubin, Secretary of the Treasury.
Secretary Donna Shalah, Secretary of Health and Human Services.
Governor Hunt, Governor of North Carolina.
Valora Washington, Program Director, W.K. Kellogg Foundation.
Patty Siegel, Executive Director, California Child Care Resource and
Referral Network (R&R Network).
12:00-2:00 WHITE HOUSE LUNCHEON AND WORKING SESSIONS AT FEDERAL
AGENCIES
The First Lady will host the White House luncheon at which tbd Members of Congress
will speak. In addition, Secretaries Shalala, Herman, Riley and Glickman will host
working sessions at several agencies with assembled groups who will watch White
House
proceedings by satellite.
2:00-4:00
PANEL DISCUSSION:
LEARNING FROM WHAT WORKS
2:00-2:05
The First Lady welcomes and introduces the Vice President.
2:05-2:15
The Vice President makes remarks and intros serveting Rilay
2:15-2:20
Secretary Riley makes remarks.
PANEL1.WPD
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White House Conference on Child Care
DANEL ONE
THE CHALLENGE: AVAILABILITY, AFFORDABILITY, AND ASSURING
SAFETY AND QUALITY IN CHILD CARE
Participants
The President
The First Lady
Ellen Galinksy
Michelle Seligson
Secretary Robert Rubin
Secretary Donna Shalala
Governor Hunt
Valora Washington
Patty Siegel
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PANEL1 WPD
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White House Conference on Child Care
Description and Goals
Description of the Panel
Goals of the Panel
PANEL1.WPD
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White House Conference on Child Care
Suggested Script
MORNING SESSION
THE FIRST LADY welcomes, makes remarks, and introduces the video.
Video (6 minutes ) is shown.
(parent featured in video)
Cathy Carliner introduces the PRESIDENT.
The PRESIDENT makes remarks.
The PRESIDENT and FIRST LADY join PANEL DISCUSSION.
PANEL DISCUSSION
THE FIRST LADY will introduce the seven members of the panel:
Ellen Galinsky, President and Co-Founder, Families and Work Insititute.
Michelle Seligson, Founder and Director, National Insitute on Out-of-School
Time.
Secretary Rubin, Secretary of the Treasury.
Secretary Shalala, Secretary of Health and Human Services.
Governor Hunt, Governor of North Carolina.
Valora Washington, Program Director, W.K. Kellogg Foundation.
Patty Siegel, Executive Director, California Child Care Resource and Referral
Network.
Ellen Galinsky, President and Co-Founder, Families and Work Institute.
Lead in question for the FIRST LADY: Ellen Galinsky is going to start off by
addressing why child care is important for young children and tell us a little bit
about recent research in neuroscience and child development.
Suggested follow-up for the PRESIDENT: Ellen, there are some who suggest
that parents are the only good caregivers for children and therefore child care will
always be a failure. What is your opinion? Would you please address that ?
please
Suggested follow-up for the FIRST LADY: Ellen,/speak more about how we
can all do a better job of empowering parents to make choices about working
and child care
that are best for their families?
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Let's turn now to
who
Lead-in for the PRESIDENT: Michelle Seligson will tell us about the
importance of
after school age care in the enhancement of children's development,
school-readiness, and safety, to prevent at risk behavior
Michelle Seligson - Founder and director, National Institute on Out-of-School Time,
formerly the School-Age Child Care Project at Wellesley College Center for
Research on Women.
Suggested follow-question for the FIRST LADY: I know there is quite a
debate over
where before and after school programs should be located in
schools, in
community centers, or in church basements. Can you speak to
that. ?
about the
Suggested follow-up for the PRESIDENT: What is your opinion in another
debate
over the face of after-school programs. Are after-school programs
only valuable if
they're academically oriented?
Lead-in for the PRESIDENT: I'm now going to ask Secretary Rubin to
address the
significance of child care to our nation's economy.
Secretary Rubin, Secretary of the Treasury.
examine child care ( comes;
Suggested follow-up for the FIRST LADY: You are about to lead a short-term
working group of business and community leaders to examine how we can support
and strengthen public private partnerships to improve child care; can you share
with us some of what you might be looking at?
fould of variety from of perspective a
The PRESIDENT will introduce the next section: We are now going to turn to four from the
experts who will address how we're doing in meeting the challenges from making national
policy all the way down to the front lines. The panelists are:
perspective, the
Secretary Donna Shalala, Secretary of Health and Human Services.
state perspective,
Governor Hunt, Governor of North Carolina.
the community
Valora Washinton, Program Director, W.K. Kellogg Foundation.
perspective
&
he
Patty Siegel, Executive Director, California Child Care Resource and Referral
Network.
frontlin
perspecte
Lead-in for the PRESIDENT: Starting with Secretary Shalala, please give us an acseromen
national overview of the strengths and weaknesses of child care and discuss issues and overview
of
affordability safety and access publity.
of how we've
availability,
doing as
Suggested follow-up for the FIRST LADY: How has Head Start been effective a nation
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in
meeting child care needs and what can we learn from the Head Start
expereince?
Suggested follow-up for the PRESIDENT: It's clear from what we've heard
that there is a lot of good child care out there, a lot of bad child care, and a lot
that's in
between. If states or the federal government examine investing more
funds, how do
would
you suggest we target it? more fund ?
we'll now hear from from whom we have a lot to
Lead-in for the FIRST LADY: Governor Hunt will tell us about the role of the learn w/
state in
child care specifically the effectiveness of North Carolina's Smart
respect to
Start/TEACH
model and its partnership with local communities.
child care.
Governor
Governor Hunt, Governor of North Carolina.
that
if we target effor to to
Suggested follow-up for the PRESIDENT: Governor Hunt, to improve quality, do we risk,
must
we sacrifice availability for working families, can quality child care be in so doing,
affordable?
pricing care out
of reach of
working familes?
Suggested follow-up for the FIRST LADY: By law, states must set aside a
portion of their federal child care dollars for efforts to improve quality. The
Have addressed you
President fought hard for this provision in the Personal Responsibility Act. What
This in
more can the
federal government do to encourage states to make needed
NC ? ?
health and safety
improvements?
Lead-in for the FIRST LADY: Now let's hear from Valora Washington about
the
perspective of communities in was addivising child care.
Valora Washington, Program Director, W.K. Kellogg Foundation.
Suggested follow-up for the PRESIDENT: Please share with us an example of
effective community mobilization.
in a community
Suggested follow-up for the FIRST LADY: How can we engage those/who
don't think this issue affects them?
Suggested follow-up for the PRESIDENT: You've talked a lot about the
importance of community investment in child care. Would you also speak about
the cost to communities of making that investment?
Lead-in for the PRESIDENT: We're now going to hear from our final expert,
Patty
Siegel about what is arguably the most important perspective - the
front lines -
parents and providers.
Patty Siegel, Executive Director, Child Care Resource and Referral Network.
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Suggested follow-up for the FIRST LADY: What more can we do to support
parents,
particularly as they struggle with questions about child care?
Suggested follow-up for the PRESIDENT: You paint a picture of child care in
the
country that is compelling and that evokes concern. Based on your
experience, what should our next steps be?
The PRESIDENT makes closing remarks.
The FIRST LADY makes closing remarks, and invites guests to lunch in the Dining
Room.
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White House Conference on Child Care
Panel One Participants
Ellen Galinsky. President and Co-Founder of the Families and Work Institute. Ms.
Galinsky will address why quality child care is important for young children, based
on recent research in neuroscience and child development, and examine how child
care in the United States today falls short of the need.
Before founding the Families and Work Institute, Ms. Galinsky served on the faculty
of Bank Street College of Education and as President of the National Association for
the Education of Young Children (NAEYC). She has been an advisor to the U.S.
Department of Education on business and family involvement in education, and the
U.S. Department of Labor. She has also served as an advisor to many states on
their early education and care initiatives and on work and family issues.
Under Ms. Galinsky's leadership, the Families and Work Institute, which is a
non-profit, national center for policy research on issues of the changing workforce
and changing family lives, is directing a number of studies ranging from the quality
of child care in America to an examination of the work, family and personal lives of
U.S. workers. In addition to these studies, Ms. Galinsky, in conjunction with the
National Governor's Association and the National Center for Children in Poverty, is
directing an effort to provide technical assistance to several states as they work to
develop a comprehensive, integrated agenda for young children. She is also
coordinating the outreach activities for a public awareness campaign of what
families and communities can do to promote their young children's healthy
development and school readiness.
Ms. Michelle Seligson. Founder and director, National Institute on Out-of-School
Time, formerly the School-Age Child Care Project at Wellesley College Center for
Research on Women.
Before founding the SACCProject, Ms. Seligson was the Assistant Director of
the Human Relations/Youth Resources Commission of Brookline, MA, where she
developed a city-wide system of parent-administered after-school programs in the
public schools. The project gained national recognition and inspired the creation of
the SACCProject. The SACCProject has been active in calling attention to the
problems facing latchkey children and their families. SACCProject serves as a
research, training and policy institute focusing on how children spend their
out-of-school time. The National Institute on Out-of-School Time's mission is to
improve the quantity and quality of school-aged care programs nationally, by
concentrating its efforts in five primary areas: research, education and training,
consultation, program and community development and public awareness. Their
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work has culminated in the MOST Initiative, a $6.5 million initiative, for which she
is Executive Director.
Secretary Robert Rubin.
Secretary Donna Shalala.
Governor Hunt.
Dr. Valora Washington. Program Director for the W.K. Kellogg Foundation of Battle
Creek, Michigan.
The author of six books and over forty publications, Dr. Washington joined The
Kellogg Foundation after serving as Vice President and tenured professor of Antioch
College in Ohio, and having held both faculty and administrative posts at other
Universities throughout the country. She has received several honors for her work
on behalf of children and families, most recently in February 1997 when she was
named one of "25 most influential working mothers" by Working Mothers
Magazine.
Having worked for over six years as Program Director for the Kellogg Foundation,
where she served concurrently as program Vice President between 1991-1995, she
has created and managed a variety of initiatives in excess of $86 million around the
theme of expanding community engagement in supporting children, youth and
families. Some of their projects include: $2 million targeted to science education in
low achieving elementary schools, where they succeed in raising test scores and
increasing parent and community involvement and $17 million in school readiness
and child care focused on core variables of successes across a variety of
community, cultural, and school contexts.
Patty Siegel. Executive Director of the California Child Care Resource and Referral
Network (R&R Network).
Ms. Siegel's involvement in the development and delivery of child care services
dates back to 1970 which has allowed her to combine perspectives as a teacher,
as a parent-organizer and as the founding director of one of the nation's first child
care resource and referral agencies, The Children's Council/Childcare Switchboard
in San Francisco.
In her current role as Executive Director, Ms. Siegel is an active participant in
shaping state and federal policy for children and families. Her current work includes
the Child Care Initiative Project, a $7 million dollar statewide public-private
partnership to expand the supply of licensed quality child care by recruiting and
training new family child care providers, with special emphasis on infants and
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toddlers and Spanish speaking communities. In 1995, she received one of the
Leadership Awards from the Children's Defense Fund.
WHITE HOUSE CONFERENCE ON CHILD CARE
OVERVIEW
On October 23, the President and the First Lady will host the White House Conference
on Child Care in the East Room of the White House, bringing together parents, caregivers,
business leaders and child care experts. The conference will explore how the public and
private sectors can respond to the need that Americans who are struggling to be both good
parents and good workers have for safe, affordable child care.
Many parents choose to stay home and care for their children themselves. Yet
millions of Americans, by choice or necessity, rely on child care and after-school programs to
care for their children for part of each day. The conference is intended to begin a dialogue on
three critical child care issues access, affordability and assuring safety and quality -- and to
highlight the roles that yone -- including communities, businesses, child care providers,
Federal, state and local governments, and parents themselves -- can play in addressing these
issues.
10:00-10:30 OPENING SESSION
10:00-10:10 The First Lady welcomes, makes remarks, and inroudduces the video.
10:10-10:15 The video is shown.
10:15-10:26/7 Parent introduces the President.
10:20-10:30 The President makes remarks. min)
18-10:30
10:30-12:00 PANEL DISCUSSION:) THE CHALLENGE: AVAILABILITY, in
3
AFFORDABILITY, AND ASSURING SAFETY AND QUALITY/CHILD
CARE)
The President and First Lady will moderate this session.
The Pres
The
FL
Panelists:
n-Galinsky, President and Co-Founder, of the Families and Work-Institute.
Michelle Seligson, Founder and director, National Institute on Out-of-School
Time, formerly the School Age Child Care Project at Wellesley College Center
for Research on Women.
Secretary Robert Rubin, Secretary of the Treasury.
shall
a
M
Patty Siegel, Executive Director, of the California Child Care Resource and
2
Hunt.
Referral Network (R&R Network).
3 Valora Washington, Program Director, I for the W.K. Kellogg Foundation of
Battle Creek, Michigan
Part 1: Why Does Child Care Matter? This panel will address: the relationship between
quality child care and children's healthy development, particularly in the earliest years of life;
the importance of good after-school programs for youth; and the need for child care given
dramatic changes in the workforce and economy.
Part 2: How Are We Doing in Meeting the Challenge? This panel will provide an overview
of the strengths and weaknesses of child care in communities across the country and will also
look at this question from the unique perspectives of parents and child care providers.
12:00-2:00
WHITE HOUSE LUNCHEON AND WORKING SESSIONS AT FEDERAL
AGENCIES
The first lady will host, at when TBB will moe
speak,
During the White House luncheon, Secretaries Shalala, Herman, Riley and Glickman In addition
will host working sessions at several agencies, And tbd Members of Congress will
speak in the State Dining Room at the White House,
with available
assembled
group who will
2:00-4:00
PANEL DISCUSSION: LEARNING FROM WHAT WORKS
water proceeding WH
by cakelle,
2:00-2:05
The First Lady welcomes and introduces the Vice President.
2:05-2:15
The Vice President makes remarks.
5 mm Relay make remales
2:15-4:00
The Vice President and the First Lady will moderate this session. State and
local officials, along with representatives of the military, business, health, labor, and faith
communities, will highlight promising efforts around the country and discuss how all members
of the community can address the challenges of assuring safe, affordable child care for
working families HRC who need it. critical could care
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1
VP
availability affordability and
Panelists:
the
Secretary Donna Shalala, Secretary of Health and Human Services.
accuring
Secretary Richard Riley, Secretary of Education.
safety and
Governor Hunt, Governor of North Carolina
Jane Maroney, State Legislator, State of Delaware.
quality
gusan Arouson
Brigadier General Meyer, Chief of Public Affairs United States Army.
in
Doug Price, President of FirstBank of Colorado.
ce.
tbd Labor,
tbd Faith,
4:00-6:00
SOUTH LAWN RECEPTION
4:00-4:10
The First Lady welcomes and makes brief remarks.
4:10-4:25
tbd Members of Congress make remarks
4:25-4:30
The First Lady makes closing remarks.
In TP form - The FL will host a reception
for the participants at the WH and The
federal agencies. Mrs. Clinfon will make remarks
and report on me federal agency working will
Sessions In addition, TBD MOC
make bref remark,
Panel One
in
THE CHALLENGE: AVAILABILITY, AFFORDABILITY, AND
ASSURING SAFETY AND QUALITY CHILD CARE
Participants
The President
The First Lady
Ellen Galinksy
Michelle Seligson
Secretary Robert Rubin
Secretary Donne shalale
Governor that
Patty Siegel
Valora Washington
W.H confon
orni
Liss
Suggested Script
OPENING SESSION DOES CHILD CAREMATTER?
THE FIRST LADY welcomes, makes remarks, and introduces the video.
Video (S minutes ) is shown providing the human face of child care through voices/images of
parents, children, providers and business leaders.
(TBD Parent introduces the PRESIDENT. The Parent from video (t) thanks the PRESIDENT
for putting the issue of child care at the top of the national agenda
The PRESIDENT makes remarks.
The PRESIDENT and FIRST LADY join PANEL DISCUSSION,
PANEL DISCUSSION
7
THE FIRST LADY will introduce the SIX members of the panel, and introduce Ellen Galinsky,
who will make the first presentation. runder, list all panelosts stitles
The FL- lead in Q
Ellen Galinsky Title will add ess why quality child care is important for voung children, based
(over)
on recent research internoscience and child development, and examine how child care in the
United States today falls short of the need.
Lead -in Q for The FL:
fouchuldre
Suggested follow-up for the PRESIDENT: What does the research tell us about/the
components of good child care for our youngest children? Ellen here are something
suggest that only parent ave The only 80 od caregives and CC thenfore wen
speake move about
Suggested follow-up for the FIRST LADY: Ellen, how can all sectors, including the
always
be,
wecan
all
government, do a better job of empowering parents to make choices about working
and child care that are best for their families?
what a facture
du you
The PRESIDENT should ask a lead-in question for Michelle Seligson: I'm now going to
say?
ask Michelle Seligson to address why child care opportunities are important for
school-age children.
Michelle Seligson - Founder and director, National Institute on Out-of-School Time, formerly
the School-Age Child Care Project at Wellesley College Center for Research on Women. Ms.
Seligson will address why after-school care is important to enhance children's development,
school readiness, and safety 10 prevent at-risk behavior. and will examine existing after-school
opportunities.
Lead-in Q 60- The Pver.
The FL
Suggested follow-question for the PRESIDENT: What are the main barriers that
communities face in trying to develop after school programs, and how can the
HRC lead - in of for Ellen
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how we measure quality
how we can improve it n
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hef- foft school programs should be in schools
in community center or church resements. Camyonspeak that. to
government and other important sectors help to break down those barriers?
There's
choil
Suggested follow-up for the FIRST LADY: How can libraries, museums and other
whether our you! should he serving us many children as we can (8vev) in
community based institutions play a role in meeting this important need?
also what
The PRESIDENT should ask a lead-in question of Secretary Rubin: I'm now going to
ask our Secretary of Rubin the Treasury to address the significance of child care to our
nation's economy.
Secretary Rubin will Traddressha address how child care plays an important role in the strength and
dynamism of our economy.
suggested follow-up me
Lead-in
The PRESIDENT should follow-up with: You have suggested that child care is an
& & &
important underpinning of our oconomy and is therefore worthy of our collective
investment. How can we do a better job of calling to action business and community
leaders?
and community leaders.
about
Suggested follow-t up for the FIRST LADY: You are going to lead a short-term
working group of business executives to examine how we can support and
strengthen public-private partnerships to improve child care; can you share with us
some of what you might be looking at?
The PRESIDENT should introduce the next section, "HOW ARE WE DOING IN MEETING
THIS CHALLENGE?"
over
TBD Child Care Provider or Marcy Whitebrook title makes The opening presentation, by
addressing what child care looks like everyday, from the perspective of a child care provider,
and examing professional development and wage issues.
The PRESIDENT should ask: It is clear that we need to attract and keep more highly
qualified and dedicated professionals like yourself, in the child care field. What
specific steps can the government and other pivotal sectors take?
The FIRST LADY should ask: Tell us about a typical day for a provider.
The PRESIDENT should ask a lead-in question of Patty Siegel: Helping working
parents meet their responsibilities to their jobs and their families is among the
greatest and most important challenges of my Administration. Patty Siegel is here
to share with us some of parents greatest concerns about how to balance the two.
Patty Siegel title. will address the pressures on working families and the struggle to balance the
responsibilities to both work and family.
The FIRST LADY should ask: Tell us about your own efforts to balance work and
programs causing from succer to or who then
programa are only hereficial if they specifically
provide additional learning oppa truities
through tutaing and computer classes,
for example. what doyn think ?
puliat is your about what
our next skys should he :
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invested
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state S or the fed sprapes, you. examines investing new move
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funds, how dolore farget if [Secondly, and I'd like
Improve quality, also making it unaffordable
are wisk we in so doing if
for working familes ? And how afd que addres thes
Now Lets hear from Vectora about thre
from kellogs
perspec of comments.
family responsibilities OR question about Parents Magazine poll results.
The FIRST LADY should ask a lead-in question to Valora Washington: Valora
Washington'is here to tell us of some of the specific ways that communities can be
supported to examine needs and work to meet them?
Valora Washington title. will add ess why child care is important 10 communties.
The PRESIDENT should ask a follow up: Please share with us an example of effective
community mobilization.
The PRESIDENT makes closing remarks.
The FIRST LADY makes closing remarks, and invites guests to lunch in the Dining4 Room.
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Pame One Part
Panel I: The-Challenge: Availability, Affordability, and Assuring
Safety and Quality Child Care
Ellen Galinsky.
Ms. Michelle Seligson. Founder and director, National Institute on Out-of-School Time,
formerly the School-Age Child Care Project at Wellesley College Center for Research on
Women.
Before founding the SACCProject, Ms. Seligson was the Assistant Director of the Human
Relations/Youth Resources Commission of Brookline, MA, where she developed a city-wide
system of parent-administered after-school programs in the public schools. The project gained
national recognition and inspired the creation of the SACCProject. The SACCProject has been
active in calling attention to the problems facing latchkey children and their families.
SACCProject serves as a research, training and policy institute focusing on how children spend
their out-of-school time. The National Institute on Out-of-School Time's mission is to improve
the quantity and quality of school-aged care programs nationally, by concentrating its efforts in
five primary areas: research, education and training, consultation, program and community
development and public awareness. Their work has culminated in the MOST Initiative, a $6.5
million initiative, for which she is Executive Director.
Secretary Robert Rubin.
tbd provider.
Patty Siegel.
Valora Washington.
WIS confor on CC
Panel Three
Two
LEARNING FROM WHAT WORKS
Participants
2
The Vice President
1
The First Lady
Secretary of Health and Human Services Donna Shalala
3
Secretary of Education Richard Riley
Governor Hunt 5
2
Jane Maroney
3
Susan Arouson
1
Brigadier General Meyer
6
Doug Price
5
TBD Labor Leader
4
TBD Religious Leader
Description and Goals
Description of the Panel
Goals of the Panel
VP lead in to Riley
Lead in
WHA conf on CC
Afternoon. Suggested Script
Openens summy
intros The panelists
The FIRST LADY welcomes and introduces the VICE PRESIDENT.
The VICE PRESIDENT makes remarks addressing the the need to learn from promising models
nation wide, particularly stressing the need for supporting after school programs. He turns to
Riley Secretary Shatata for an opening presentation.
Riley makes has remaks.
Secretary Donna Shalala speaks, providing a national overview of the strengths and
weaknesses of child care and addressing issues of affordability, safety and access.
Sugge Bky forFL
The VICE PRESIDENT should ask Secretary Shalala: How has Head Start been
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effective in meeting child care needs and what can we learn from the Head Start
The fed
suggested experience? following for Pres dent FL
stor.
let
The FIRST LADY should ask: By law, states must set aside a portion of their federal
Hunt
child care dollars for efforts to improve quality. The President) fought hard for this
provision in the Personal Responsibility Act. How are states now spending this
money
X
15 This enough & frot what
more can 5 do to encourage states
Secretary Riley?
to make needed health ef cafety
imp vements?
The FIRST ADY should ask a lead- in question: Governor Hunt from North Carolina
has joined us to tell us a little bit about the role of the state government in child
care.
Governor Hunt will speak, addressing the effectiveness of North Carolina Smart
Start/TEACH model and its partnership with local communities.
The VICE PRESIDENT should ask a follow-up question: Pléase explain how the state
and communities work in partnership.
The FIRST LADY should ask an additional question: What tangible
Improvements have you seen in North Carolina's child care has North Carolina
been able serve more children in quality programs and has quality improved?
ANY
Jane Maroney title. speaks.
The VICE PRESIDENT or FIRST LADY should ask a lead-in question:
General Meyer Chief of Public Affairs United States Army. Brigadier General- Meyer-wilLdiscuss
the military's child care delivery system and The components That make it exemplary also providing
an historical perspective on the military's commitment.
HRC Lead- In -
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child are
Particulary appropriate to have Meyer here
HRC head in - today. Ab out six months ago
The VICE PRESIDENT should ask a follow up question: On April 17, 1997
upfa VP n/c of its exery EM system
community How has the military followed up on his request? Mayer will shave ns w/
the President asked the military to share its expertise with the civilian child care
sugged
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you've Sand mal
The FIRST LAD should follow-up with: speak The military mm about did not always have the model
child care system it has today. What propelled the improvements?
suggested HRC folloup There are many who argue that the undetaing Dr
not a unful model b/c of its uniqueness. what do you say to Mat?
The VICE PRESIDENT or FIRST LADY should ask a lead-in question:
Doug Price President of FirstBank of Colorado 5-M Mr. Price will address the role of business leaders
in meeting child care needs. will addresses the role of business in meeting child care needs and
sharing his own experience First Bank of Colorado and as chair of Colorado's Business
Commission.
The FIRST LADY should ask the follow-up: How can we enlist more business leaders to
address child care needs of their workers and of the communities in which they have
a presence?
The VICE PRESIDENT should follow-up with: How can we address the barriers that
small businesses face in addressing child care issues?
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incc
TBD Labor Leader. Title. addresses the ole of organized labor in examining child care needs and
working with communities to meet those needs.
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VPHRC Question: Tell us about the child care workfire & what
we can do TO support ef retain
VP/HRC Question hold anothy of have for Worker, HBC
The VICE PRESIDENT or. FIRST LADY should ask a lead-in question: We'll now turn
to
Susan Aronson Member of American Academy of Pediatrics, National Board. Dr. Aronson will
address the role of health professionals in improving the quality of child care, specifically in
improving health and safety.
FIRST LADY
The VICE PRESIDENT should follow-up with: National health and safety standards are
very controversial, as states today define their own standards, with guidance from the
E
federal government. Yet we know that children's health and safety needs in Nevada
are no different than those in New Jersey. how can we share best practices and achieve
a more uniform guidelines' Can you address this ? I'd also like fane
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The FIRST LADY should ask an follow-up question: How can the health community help
1
to address the specifie child care needs of children with disabilities?
chronic illnesses like
Asthma or with
The FIRST LADY should ask an additiona question: Linking the health and child care
communities seems to be a key to improving quality -- how can we build on existing
efforts?
TBD Religious Leader title. speaks addressing the role of the religious community in meeting child
care needs.
leadin- We've going r turn to - to
VP/HRC Question: Rs.
VP/HRC Question:
The VICE PRESIDENT makes closing remarks.
The FIRST LADY makes closing remarks and invites guests to South Lawn Reception.
VP:
Red. lust have long control buted to
child care. In 1 rew, now can we
build on there effort el engage mein the
re!- community leaders to use its moral
anth. in comsumities to address
was make further progress?
HRC: what ave yr views about how we
can parents who stay at home?
Maroney
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lend in
We'll now turn to Jane Maroney for
confrase anothe. perspective of the vole of
the state
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the much our next skys should he
as a nation i more specifically, that do
you thank the federal 186 and le?
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PANEL TWO Participants
How Do We Mobilize All Members of the Community to Support Affordable,
Quality, Child Care?
Secretary of Health and Human Services Donna Shalala.
Governor Hunt.
Jane Maroney.
Brigadier General John G. Meyer, Jr. Chief of Public Affairs United States Army.
Brigadier General John G. "Gil" Meyer, Jr. formulates Army public affairs policies and
advises the Secretary of the Army and the Chief of Staff, Army, and other senior Army and
Department of Defense leaders on public affairs matters relating to the Army. As the former
Commanding General of the Army's Community and Family Support Center, Brigadier General
Meyer was the proponent of all family programs including child development programs.
Additionally, Under his leadership, the Army Child Development program was able to achieve a
National accreditation rate of 85%, compared to the national average of 5%. He was
instrumental in helping the army lead the military in meeting the need for child care.
Mr. Doug Price. President of FirstBank of Colorado.
As chairman of Governor Roy Romer's Colorado Business Commission on Child Care
Financing, Mr. Price is leading the effort to examine the needs of working parents and their
children. Among other accomplishments, the Commission has promoted business awareness
through statewide meetings with key business leaders, the Governor, and top executives to
discuss the economic and social benefits of employers creating a parent friendly work place. He
also serves as president of the Food Bank of the Rockies, a non-profit food distribution agency in
Colorado, which annually handles over 10 million pounds of food and provides an estimated
700,000 meals each month. And Chairman of the Center City Housing Council of the
Downtown Denver Partnership.
Labor tbd.
Religious tbd.
SOUTH LAWN RECEPTION
The FIRST LADY welcomes and makes brief remarks, reporting on working sessions of
Cabinet members from the different agencies. 1 (They will have briefed you earlier)
& intros TBD Moe
Tbd Members of Congress make remarks.
The First Lady makes closing remarks.
ADDITIONAL BIOS FOR PANELISTS OF THE WHITE CONFERENCE ON CHILD
CARE
OCTOBER 23, 1997
Ellen Galinsky. President and Co-Founder of the Families and Work Institute. Ms. Galinsky
will address why quality child care is important for young children, based on recent research in
neuroscience and child development, and examine how child care in the United States today falls
short of the need.
Before founding the Families and Work Institute, Ms. Galinsky served on the faculty of Bank
Street College of Education and as President of the National Association for the Education of
Young Children (NAEYC). She has been an advisor to the U.S. Department of Education on
business and family involvement in education, and the U.S. Department of Labor. She has also
served as an advisor to many states on their early education and care initiatives and on work and
family issues.
Under Ms. Galinsky's leadership, the Families and Work Institute, which is a non-profit,
national center for policy research on issues of the changing workforce and changing family
lives, is directing a number of studies ranging from the quality of child care in America to an
examination of the work, family and personal lives of U.S. workers. In addition to these studies,
Ms. Galinsky, in conjunction with the National Governor's Association and the National Center
for Children in Poverty, is directing an effort to provide technical assistance to several states as
they work to develop a comprehensive, integrated agenda for young children. She is also
coordinating the outreach activities for a public awareness campaign of what families and
communities can do to promote their young children's healthy development and school
readiness.
Ellen Galinsky can be reached at 212-465-2044
Secretary Richard W. Riley. Secretary Riley is the Secretary of Education.
During the President's first term, Secretary Riley helped launch historic initiatives to raise
academic standards; to improve instruction for the poor and disadvantaged; to expand federal
grants and loan programs to help more Americans go to college; to prepare young people for the
world of work; and to improve teaching. He also helped to create the Partnership for Family
Involvement in Education, which today includes over 3,000 groups. In the second term,
Secretary Riley has helped win an historic ruling by the F.C.C. to give schools and libraries deep
discounts for Internet access and telecommunications services and helped win major
improvements in the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.
Patty Siegel. Executive Director of the California Child Care Resource and Referral Network
(R&R Network).
Ms. Siegel's involvement in the development and delivery of child care services dates back to
1970 which has allowed her to combine perspectives as a teacher, as a parent-organizer and as
the founding director of one of the nation's first child care resource and referral agencies, The
Children's Council/Childcare Switchboard in San Francisco.
In her current role as Executive Director, Ms. Siegel is an active participant in shaping state and
federal policy for children and families. Her current work includes the Child Care Initiative
Project, a $7 million dollar statewide public-private partnership to expand the supply of licensed
quality child care by recruiting and training new family child care providers, with special
emphasis on infants and toddlers and Spanish speaking communities.
In 1995, she received one of the Leadership Awards from the Children's Defense Fund.
Recently the R&R Network was selected by HHS as one of five grantees to participate in the
Child Care Research Consortium, which will study issues related to child care and welfare
reform.
Ms. Siegel can be reached at 415-882-0234
Dr. Valora Washington. Program Director for the W.K. Kellogg Foundation of Battle Creek,
Michigan.
The author of six books and over forty publications, Dr. Washington joined The Kellogg
Foundation after serving as Vice President and tenured professor of Antioch College in Ohio,
and having held both faculty and administrative posts at other Universities throughout the
country. She has received several honors for her work on behalf of children and families, most
recently in February 1997 when she was named one of 25 most influential working mothers" by
Working Mothers Magazine.
Having worked for over six years as Program Director for the Kellogg Foundation, where she
served concurrently as program Vice President between 1991-1995, she has created and managed
a variety of initiatives in excess of $86 million around the theme of expanding community
engagement in supporting children, youth and families. Some of their projects include: $2
million targeted to science education in low achieving elementary schools, where they succeed in
raising test scores and increasing parent and community involvement and $17 million in school
readiness and child care focused on core variables of successes across a variety of community,
cultural, and school contexts.
Valora Washington can be reached at 616-968-1611
The White House Conference on Child Care
Panel Two: Description and Goals
The purpose of the afternoon panel discussion is to learn from what works and to explore the
roles of various sectors of society in meeting the critical child care challenges -- availability,
affordability, and assuring safety and quality in child care. Panel participants -- from the
businessman to the Army General to the pediatrician -- are leaders in improving child care and
will share their own experiences. More important, they will each address what their experiences
say about the roles and responsibilities of the sectors of society they represent.
The White House Conference on Child Care
Panel One: Description and Goals
The purpose of the first panel discussion is to recast child care as an issue in which every
American has a stake and to engage the panel participants, who are leading child care experts, in
a dialogue of where we as a nation should go from here to address the critical child care
challenges -- availability, affordability, and assuring safety and quality in child care.
The first panel discussion will address two questions. The first, "why does child care matter,"
will be explored.by experts in terms of the importance of quality child care for our youngest
children, for our youth (school-age care), and for our economy and workforce. The second
question, "how are we doing as a nation in meeting child care challenges," will be examined
from macro and micro perspectives, addressing the state of affairs in child care for our nation, for
states, for communities, and for frontline providers and parents: