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Clinton Library
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001. schedule
Schedule for Hillary Rodham Clinton (partial) (1 page)
02/02/1999
b(7)(E)
002. schedule
Schedule for Hillary Rodham Clinton (partial) (6 pages)
04/19/1999
b(7)(E)
COLLECTION:
Clinton Presidential Records
First Lady's Office
Melanne Verveer
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Childcare #6 [Binder] [1]
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HRC
CHILDCARE
BOOK #6
# 6 E L R c D A c c H R H HRC
I
FIRST LADY HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON
Childcare
1993-2000
1992
11/18
Children's Defense Fund - Washington DC
1993
1/26
National Child Labor Committee to New York Cares Program - New York, NY
4/2
National Commission on Children Meeting Summit - Washington DC
1994
3/4
Children NOW Advocacy Conference Satellite Feed - White House
9/25
Childcare Action Campaign Benefit - New York, NY
11/18
Children's Discovery Center - Honolulu, Hawaii
12/2
Triangle Christian Families Preservation Network - Los Angeles, California
12/10
First Ladies of the Americas Florida meeting on Children's Education, Health and
Safety - Miami, Florida
1995
2/8
"Young Children - Priority One" Kiwanis Club Council - The White House
2/14
Linn County Day Care Center - Cedar Rapids, Iowa
3/1
Child Welfare League - Washington, DC
3/13
Video - Girl Scouts National Meetings
4/21
Mary's Center for Maternal and Child Care - Washington, DC
5/3
Covenant House Kick off and Reception - Washington, DC
5/8
Positive Influences on Children Ad Council Reception - The White House
5/16
Family Circle Lunch - Service to Children and Families - Chicago, Illinois
6/2
Upper Peninsula Children's Coalition - Escanaba, Michigan
6/13
Casey Journalism Center for Children and Families Discussion - White House
8/5
Column on Working Women
9/3
Column on Childcare
1996
3/12
Column on Childcare
4/10
Children First: A Global Forum - satellite feed from the White House
5/22
Colorado Forum for Children's Advocacy - Denver, Colorado
5/30
Children's Action Network - California
6/7
Discussion with Working Families - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
6/14
Youth Talk - A City Listens to Children - Kansas City, Missouri
6/21
Video - National Center for Youth Law
6/24
Mothers Against Violence in America - Seattle, Washington
7/18
Video - National Parenting Instructors Association's Conference "Careers & Kids
Balancing Work and Parenting Responsibilities"
10/4
Harvard JFK School of Government - Children's Issues - Boston, MA
10/22
Barbara Greenspun Lecture - Importance of Children's Issues - Las Vegas NV
1997
2/10
U.S. Kids Care Center Visit - Washington, DC
2/11
Column on Childcare
2/19
"Stand for Children" Kickoff - Children's Mercy Hospital - Kansas City, MO
3/3
Coalition for America's Children - PSA and Event - White House
4/8
Column on Childcare
5/22
Parents' Magazine Luncheon - Support for Children - ???
7/3
Video - San Diego Tribune Community Forum - Service to Families
7/30
Youth Leadership Institute - Washington, DC
9/17
Childcare Meeting - White House
9/24
Childcare Meeting - White House
10/1
Quantico Child Care Event - Quantico, Virginia
Childcare Roundtable - Miami, Florida
10/3
University of Maryland - Education and Childcare Remarks - College Park, MD
10/20
Children's Defense Fund 25th Anniversary Gala - New York, NY
10/22
Childcare Press Briefing - White House
10/23
Childcare Conference - The White House
11/24
California Youth Connection Roundtable - Los Angeles, CA
1998
1/6
Column on Childcare
1/7
Childcare Announcement - White House
1/26
PSA - Lifetime Television
Virtual Y School - Modern Afterschool Programs - Harlem, NY
Early Learning Fund - White House
1/28
Childcare Remarks at Trinity College - Hartford, Connecticut
2/9
Zero to Three 20th Anniversary Gala - Washington, DC
2/10
Column on Childcare
2/18
Childcare and Health Initiative Event - Washington DC
2/19
Martin Luther King Child Development Center Child Care Event - Dallas, TX
3/16
Children's Assessment Center - Houston, TX
4/8
Video - The Children's Defense Fund "Beat the Odds" Banquet
4/22
Column on Childcare
4/23
Rose Garden Child Care Event - White House
Meeting with Treasury Working Group on Childcare - White House
4/27
Community Forum on Childcare - Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Children's Defense Fund Tribute to Edelman Dinner - Chicago, Illinois
5/5
Video - First Statewide Conference on Childcare for Florida
5/11
Reiner Foundation Supporters on Childcare - New York, NY
6/2
Childcare initiative - Redbook's "Mother's & Shakers" Award - Washington DC
6/3
Column on Childcare
6/4
McGovern Child Care Event - Attleboro, MA
6/9
Democratic Caucus Childcare Event - Legislation Unveiling - Washington DC
6/21
Childcare Roundtable - University of New Mexico - Albuquerque, NM
6/22
Family Reunion 7 - Vanderbilt University - Nashville, TN
7/21
Video - State Childcare Administrators Meeting - Healthy Child Care America
9/23
Parent's Magazine 1998 Childcare Awards - New York, NY
9/25
Childcare Event with David Wu - Portland State University - Portland, Oregon
10/6
White House After School Programming Event - White House
10/30
Children and Families Initiative - Rob Reiner Residence - Los Angeles, CA
12/1
NYU Child Study Center - New York, NY
12/4
Keynote Address at the Eleanor Roosevelt Lecture on the Rights of the Child -
Georgetown University - Washington DC
1999
1/20
Families Agenda Roundtable - Buffalo, NY and Norristown, Pennsylvania
2/2
Families Agenda Roundtable - Brooklyn, New York
4/7
Videos - "Beat the Odds' Event - Children's Defense Fund
4/12
"Just Us Kids" - Promoting Investment in Childcare - Washington DC
4/19
Jewish Childcare Association - 175th Anniversary - New York, NY
5/10
Listening to Our Children Childline Conference - White House
7/15
Videos - Healthy Families America Awards Dinner
Second Annual Heads Up Project Fair
9/22
Childcare Roundtable - New York, NY
2000
2/2
State of the Union 2000 Highlights
4/18
Hand in Hand Childcare Center - New York, NY
4/28
Fight Crime - Invest in Kids Event - White House
5/12
Consumer Product Safety Event - White House
COLUMNS
8/5/95
Working Women
9/3/95
Childcare
3/12/96
Childcare
2/11/97
Childcare
4/8/97
Childcare
1/6/98
Childcare
2/10/98
Childcare
4/22/98
Childcare
6/3/98
Childcare
2/2/2000
State of the Union 2000 Highlights
Finished 7/19/00
Katie McCormick Lelyveld
Children & Families: Child Care
Objective:
To make child care better, safer and more affordable for America's working families.
Accomplishments:
White House Conference on Child Care
Hosted Conference with POTUS- two panel discussion, luncheon and reception (10/23/97)
Press Roundtable, morning shows with POTUS (10/22/97-10/23/97)
Ramp-up speech at the University of Maryland (10/3/97)
President's FY 1999 Child Care Initiative
White House announcement of child care budget proposals (1/7/98)
Leadership role in policy development
Leadership in securing in FY 1999 budget negotiations $200 million for after school programs
and $180 million in child care quality
Advocated to strengthen background checks on child care providers; President signed National
Crime Prevention and Privacy Compact to facilitate background checks
Pushed for improvements to federal child care; President signed executive memorandum
(3/10/98)
Op eds in women's magazines (i.e. Parents) and column (1/6/98)
Selected Appearances/ Campaigning to Promote Child Care Investments
Fight Crime Invest in Kids Event (4/28/00)
Participated in Families Agenda Roundtable, Duncan YMCA, Chicago (4/14/99)
Child Care Announcement and Tour at Just Us Kids Child Development Center, DC (4/12/99)
Speech in New York for Parents Magazine child care awards (9/23/98)
Release of grants to promote after school programs through the 21st Century Learning Centers in
Rose Garden ceremony (6/17/98)
White House luncheon with Redbook magazine on child care (6/2/98)
Capitol Hill announcement of House Democratic child care bill with sponsors (6/98)
Child care roundtable with Rep. Tauscher (5/26/98)
Rosie O'Donnell Show appearance on child care and meeting with leaders of Reiner child care
campaign, New York, NY (5/11/98)
White House meeting with Treasury Working Group on Child Care and Rose Garden event with
POTUS to release working group report (4/23/98)
Milwaukee Child Care Conference keynote address (3/27/98)
Hartford, CT Roundtable discussion on child care quality (1/28/98)
Harlem, NY Virtual Y after school program visit and remarks (1/26/98)
For internal use only. Updated 6/1/00.
White House announcement of Mott Foundation commitment to after school programs (1/26/98)
Quantico Marine Base Child Care Center visit and roundtable (9/31/97)
Florida Business Commission on Child Care discussion in Miami (9/30/97)
Speech in DC to Parents Magazine child care awards (5/22/97)
White House luncheon with Working Women Magazine and child care honorees (2/10/97)
Column: Treasury Working Group on Child Care Report (4/22/98), Affordable Child Care
(2/2/2000)
For internal use only. Updated 6/1/00.
HOTOCOPY
RESERVATION
SCHEDULE FOR HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 20, 1999
FINAL
WASHINGTON, DC
BUFFALO, NY
LEAD ADVANCE:
RICK JASCULCA
42-220
STAFF OFFICE
202/757-9438
CELL PHONE
FLOTUS LEAD
ADVANCE:
GREG HALE
NORRISTOWN, PA
LEAD ADVANCE:
JIM DENBO
45-220
STAFF OFFICE
202/757-9180
CELL PHONE
FLOTUS LEAD
ADVANCE:
CALEB SHREVE
SCHEDULER:
EVAN RYAN
202/456-6751
PHONE
202/456-5340
FAX
202/483-0383
HOME
WHCA PAGER
#4223
PREV RON
The White House
8:45 am-
DROP-BY with w/POTUS
8:50 am
Diplomatic Recption Room
CLOSED PRESS/WH PHOTO
PARTICIPANTS:
The President
The First Lady
Daniel Treanor
Daniel Treanor's Grandmother
Daniel Treanor's Mother
Daniel Treanor's Brother
CONTACT: Ann Jordan 202/342-7321
8:55 am
DEPART The White House
VIA Marine One
EN ROUTE Andrews Air Force Base
[flight time: 10 minutes]
9:05 am
ARRIVE Andrews Air Force Base
SCHEDULE FOR HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 20, 1999
PAGE 2
9:20 am
WHEELS UP Andrews Air Force Base
VIA Air Force One
EN ROUTE Buffalo/Niagra International Airport
[flight time: 1 hour + 25 minute INTERCHANGE]
10:55 am
WHEELS DOWN Buffalo/Niagra International Airport
GREETERS:
Mayor Anthony M. Masiello
Dennis H. Gabryszak, Cheektowaga Town Supervisor
Dennis Gorski, Erie County Executive
Assemblyman Paul Tokasz
Assemblyman Arthur O. Eve
Assemblyman William "Sam" Hoyt
Assemblyman Brian M. Higgins
State Senator Anthony R. Nanula
Chairman Charles M. Swanick, Erie County
Legislature
Council President James W. Pitts
County Legislator Crystal D. Peoples, Majority
Leader, Erie Co. Legislature
NOTE: The Vice President and Mrs. Gore will arrive at
approximately 10:45 am.
11:10 am
DEPART Buffalo/Niagra International Airport
VIA Presidential Motorcade
EN ROUTE Marine Midland Arena
[drive time: 20 minutes]
11:30 am
ARRIVE Marine Midland Arena
GREETERS:
Ron Bertovich, Executive Vice President, Marine
Midland Arena
Stan Makowski, Senior Director, Marine Midland
Arena
Seymour Knox IV, Vice President for Corporate
Relations, Marine Midland Arena
11:35 am-
GREET OVERFLOW CROWD
11:55 am
Harbor Club
Marine Midland Arena
OPEN PRESS
SCHEDULE FOR HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 20, 1999
PAGE 3
FORMAT:
-Off-stage announcement of the President and the
First Lady, accompanied by Vice President and
Mrs. Gore.
-Mrs. Gore makes brief remarks and introduces
the First Lady.
-The First Lady makes remarks and introduces
the Vice President.
-The Vice President makes brief remarks and
introduces the President.
-The President makes brief remarks.
-The President and the First Lady, accompanied by
Vice President and Mrs. Gore, work a ropeline and
proceed to main arena.
PARTICIPANTS: 1500 guests expected.
12:00 pm-
ADDRESS TO THE PEOPLE OF WESTERN NEW YORK
1:30 pm
Marine Midland Arena
OPEN PRESS
FORMAT:
-Off-stage announcement of the President and the
First Lady, accompanied by the Vice President
and Mrs. Gore, to Ruffles and Flourishes and
Hail to the Chief.
-Buffalo Performing Arts Center Select Chorus
performs The National Anthem.
-The Reverend Dr. Bennett W. Smith delivers the
Invocation.
-Mayor Anthony M. Masiello makes brief welcoming
remarks and introduces County Executive Dennis T.
Gorski.
-County Executive Dennis T. Gorski makes brief
remarks and introduces Representative John
LaFalce.
SCHEDULE FOR HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 20, 1999
PAGE 4
-Representative John LaFalce makes brief remarks
and introduces Constance Eve.
-Constance Eve, Chairperson and Founder, Women for
Human Rights and Dignity, Incorporated, makes
brief remarks and introduces Mrs. Gore.
-Mrs. Gore makes remarks and introduces the
First Lady.
-The First Lady makes remarks and introduces
the Vice President.
-The Vice President makes remarks and introduces
the President.
-The President makes remarks, works a ropeline and
departs.
PARTICIPANTS: 16,000 guests expected.
1:30 pm-
HOLD/PHOTOS
2:00 pm
2:05 pm
DEPART Marine Midland Arena
VIA Presidential Motorcade
EN ROUTE Location tbd
[drive time: approximately 20 minutes]
NOTE: This motorcade will include the Vice President and Mrs.
Gore
2:25 pm
ARRIVE Location tbd
2:30 pm-
OTR
4:00 pm
4:05 pm
DEPART Location tbd
VIA Presidential Motorcade
EN ROUTE Buffalo/Niagra International Airport
[drive time: 5 minutes]
4:10 pm
ARRIVE Buffalo/Niagra International Airport
SCHEDULE FOR HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 20, 1999
PAGE 5
4:25 pm
WHEELS UP Buffalo/Niagra International Airport
VIA Air Force One
EN ROUTE Willow Grove Naval Air Station
[flight time: 55 minutes + INTERCHANGE]
[flight time: 1 hour, 15 minutes]
5:40 pm
ARRIVE Willow Grove Naval Air Station
GREETERS:
Captain Thomas Nagelian, Jr.
Mrs. Janet Nagelin
Tom Nagelin
Jennifer Nagelin
Colonel Charles (Chuck) Betoney, U.S. Army
Colonel Rick Ethredge, U.S. Air Force
Colonel Jim Skiff, Pennsylvania National Guard
Colonel Dan Rose, U.S. Marine Corps
Chief Linda C. Ramsey, Sailor of the Year
Corporal Marisa L. Maroukian, Marine of the Year
NOTE: The Vice President and Mrs. Gore will arrive at
approximately 5:25 pm.
5:55 pm
DEPART Willow Grove Naval Air Station
VIA Marine One
EN ROUTE Norristown Area High School Landing Zone
[flight time: 15 minutes]
6:10 pm
ARRIVE Norristown Area High School Landing Zone
6:20 pm
DEPART Norristown Area High School Landing Zone
VIA Presidential Motorcade
EN ROUTE Norristown Area High School
[drive time: 5 minutes]
6:25 pm
ARRIVE Norristown Area High School
SCHEDULE FOR HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 20, 1999
PAGE 6
GREETERS:
State Senator Stewart Greenleaf (R)
State Representative Joseph Gladeck, Jr. (R)
Rep. John Fichter (R)
Rep. Bill DeWeese (D), House Minority Leader
Rep. Lawrence Curry (D)
Rep. Connie Williams (D)
Rep. John Lawless (R)
Chairman Mario Mele, Co. Board of Commissioner (R)
Co. Commissioner Jim Masa (D)
Council Vice President Margaret Hunsicker (D)
Council Member Joseph Byrnes (R)
Council Member Thomas Murray (R)
6:30 pm-
ADDRESS TO THE PEOPLE OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY,
7:45 pm
PENNSYLVANIA
Gymnasium
Norristown Area High School
OPEN PRESS
FORMAT:
-Off-stage announcement of the President and the
First Lady, accompanied by Vice President and
Mrs. Gore, to Ruffles and Flourishes and Hail to
the Chief.
-Norristown Area High School Concert Choir
performs The National Anthem.
-Dr. Charles D. Williams, Pastor, Mt. Zion AME
Church, delivers the Invocation.
-Dr. Michael Woodall, Superintendent, makes
brief welcoming remarks and introduces Melissa
Goston, Norristown Area High School Student
Council President.
-Melissa Goston makes brief remarks and introduces
Representative Joseph Hoeffel.
-Representative Joseph Hoeffel makes brief remarks
and introduces Mrs. Gore.
-Mrs. Gore makes brief remarks and introduces
SCHEDULE FOR HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 20, 1999
the First Lady.
PAGE 7
-The First Lady makes brief remarks and introduces
the Vice President.
-The Vice President makes brief remarks and
introduces the President.
-The President makes remarks, works a ropeline,
and departs.
PARTICIPANTS: 3000 guests expected.
7:55 pm-
HOLD/PHOTOS
8:00 pm
Hallway
CLOSED PRESS/WH PHOTO
8:00 pm-
GREET OVERFLOW CROWD
8:25 pm
Auditorium
Norristown Area High School
OPEN PRESS
FORMAT:
-Off-stage announcement of the President and the
First Lady, accompanied by Vice President and
Mrs. Gore.
-Mrs. Gore makes brief welcoming remarks and
introduces the First Lady.
-The First Lady makes brief remarks and introduces
the Vice President.
-The Vice President makes brief remarks and
introduces the President.
-The President makes brief remarks, works a
ropeline, and departs.
PARTICIPANTS: 2000 guests
8:30 pm
DEPART Norristown Area High School
VIA Presidential Motorcade
EN ROUTE Norristown Area High School Landing Zone
[drive time: 5 minutes]
SCHEDULE FOR HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 20, 1999
PAGE 8
8:35 pm
ARRIVE Norristown Area High School Landing Zone
8:45 pm
DEPART Norristown Area High School Landing Zone
VIA Marine One
EN ROUTE Willow Grove Naval Air Station
9:00 pm
ARRIVE Willow Grove Naval Air Station
9:15 pm
WHEELS UP Willow Grove Naval Air Station
VIA Air Force One
EN ROUTE Andrews Air Force Base
[flight time: 35 minutes]
9:50 pm
WHEELS DOWN Andrews Air Force Base
10:05 pm
DEPART Andrews Air Force Base
VIA Marine One
EN ROUTE The White House
[flight time: 10 minutes]
10:15 pm
ARRIVE The White House
RON
The White House
WEATHER FORECAST FOR WASHINGTON, DC: Variably cloudy. Winds
south to southwest at 5 to 10 knots. Low 31. High 57.
WEATHER FORECAST FOR BUFFALO, NY: Partly to variably cloudy.
Winds southwest at 8 to 12 knots. Low 25. High 40.
WEATHER FORECAST FOR NORRISTOWN, PA: Variably cloudy. Winds
southwest to west at 6 to 12 knots. Low 33. High 50.
FIRST LADY HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON
REMARKS FOR NORRISTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA
FAMILIES AGENDA
JANUARY 20, 1999
THANK YOU, TIPPER, FOR THAT KIND INTRODUCTION --
AND FOR YOUR TIRELESS EFFORTS, OVER MANY YEARS,
EDUCATING US ALL ABOUT THE CRITICAL ISSUE OF
MENTAL HEALTH. I'M so PLEASED TO BE IN NORRISTOWN --
THE PRIDE OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY. AND TO JOIN YOU,
THE VICE PRESIDENT, THE PRESIDENT, AND EVERYONE
HERE TODAY, AS WE TALK ABOUT THE BOLD NEW AGENDA
FOR AMERICA THAT THE PRESIDENT UNVEILED LAST NIGHT
IN HIS STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS.
FIRST, I WANT TO COMMEND ALL OF YOU FOR WHAT
YOU ARE DOING HERE IN NORRISTOWN -- TO REVITALIZE
THIS COMMUNITY -- AND SUPPORT THE FAMILIES AND
CHILDREN WHO LIVE HERE.
2
I'VE HEARD ABOUT THE INNOVATIVE DROP-IN CHILD
CARE CENTER AT THE COUNTY COURT HOUSE -- AND THE
CHILD CARE SERVICES THAT ARE AVAILABLE TO THOSE
MOVING FROM WELFARE TO WORK. I'VE ALSO HEARD
ABOUT NORRISTOWN'S SCHOOL/ BUSINESS PARTNERSHIPS --
THAT ENCOURAGE PARENTS AND BUSINESSES TO GET
INVOLVED IN IMPROVING THE EDUCATION OF OUR YOUNG
PEOPLE.
THESE ARE THE KINDS OF PROGRAMS -- AIMED AT
HELPING FAMILIES MEET THE CHALLENGES OF THE 21ST
CENTURY -- THAT ARE AT THE HEART OF THIS PRESIDENT'S
AGENDA.
3
WHEN MY HUSBAND FIRST BEGAN HIS CAMPAIGN IN
1992, HE SPOKE ABOUT THE VERY REAL CONCERNS OF
AMERICA'S FAMILIES: HOW WE NEED TO RAISE WAGES FOR
WORKING AMERICANS; IMPROVE CHILD CARE;
STRENGTHEN OUR SCHOOLS; GIVE PARENTS TIME OFF FOR
FAMILY RESPONSIBILITIES; AND PROVIDE MORE
AFFORDABLE HEALTH CARE FOR ALL OUR CITIZENS.
AND I'M VERY PROUD THAT OVER THE PAST SIX YEARS,
MY HUSBAND HAS NEVER, EVER, TAKEN HIS EYES OFF OF
THOSE FUNDAMENTAL GOALS FOR AMERICA'S FAMILIES,
OR STOPPED WORKING -- WITH ALL HIS ENERGY AND
COMMITMENT -- TO FULFILL THAT VISION FOR THE FUTURE.
4
FOR THE PAST SIX YEARS, I'VE HAD THE HONOR OF
TRAVELING AROUND THIS WONDERFUL NATION OF OURS --
SOMETIMES WITH THE PRESIDENT, AND SOMETIMES ON MY
OWN -- TALKING WITH PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELVES ABOUT
THE DAILY STRUGGLES WE ALL FACE TO BALANCE WORK
AND FAMILY.
WE'VE LEARNED -- FROM LISTENING TO YOU -- HOW
IMPORTANT IT IS FOR FAMILIES TO BE ABLE TO TAKE TIME
OFF FROM WORK TO CARE FOR A NEW BORN CHILD -- OR AN
AILING PARENT. THAT'S WHY WE WERE ALL so PROUD
THAT THE FIRST PIECE OF LEGISLATION MY HUSBAND
SIGNED INTO LAW WAS THE FAMILY AND MEDICAL LEAVE
ACT. MILLIONS OF AMERICANS HAVE ALREADY
BENEFITTED FROM ITS PROTECTIONS.
5
AND, LAST NIGHT, THE PRESIDENT CALLED ON
CONGRESS TO EXPAND THE LAW TO COVER 10 MILLION
MORE WORKING AMERICANS.
AS A NATION, WE MUST HONOR THE COMMITMENT OF
PARENTS -- NOT PUNISH THEM. THAT IS WHY THE
PRESIDENT WILL SEND LEGISLATION TO CONGRESS THAT
PROHIBITS DISCRIMINATION AGAINST PARENTS IN THE
WORKPLACE.
WE'VE ALSO LEARNED -- FROM LISTENING TO YOU --
THAT ONE OF THE GREATEST CONCERNS OF AMERICANS
TODAY IS FINDING AFFORDABLE, RELIABLE CHILD CARE.
AND RESEARCH UNDERSCORES THE IMPORTANCE OF THOSE
EARLIEST YEARS TO OUR CHILDREN'S ABILITY TO LEARN
AND GROW FOR A LIFETIME.
6
THAT'S WHY IMPROVING CHILD CARE HAS BEEN AT
THE HEART OF THE PRESIDENT'S FAMILIES AGENDA.
THE PRESIDENT IS SEEKING TO SIGNIFICANTLY EXPAND
OUR INVESTMENT IN CHILD CARE -- TO MAKE IT MORE
AFFORDABLE FOR LOW-AND MIDDLE-INCOME FAMILIES,
AND TO STRENGTHEN ITS QUALITY so THAT CHILDREN
COME TO SCHOOL READY TO LEARN.
THE PRESIDENT IS ALSO PROPOSING NEW TAX RELIEF
TO HELP OVER A MILLION PARENTS WHO STAY AT HOME
WITH THEIR YOUNG CHILDREN. THESE FAMILIES NEED
SUPPORT TOO.
7
WE'VE LEARNED - -- FROM LISTENING TO YOU -- THAT
EVERY DAY AT 3 P.M., PARENTS ACROSS AMERICA LOOK UP
AT THE CLOCK, AND START WORRYING ABOUT WHETHER
THEIR SCHOOL-AGED CHILDREN ARE SAFE, AND WHETHER
THEY HAVE A SUPERVISED PLACE TO PLAY OR DO THEIR
HOMEWORK.
THIS PRESIDENT HAS ALREADY DRAMATICALLY
EXPANDED FUNDING FOR AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAMS
ACROSS THE COUNTRY. HE'S NOW PROPOSING TO TRIPLE
THAT INVESTMENT TO ENABLE OVER ONE MILLION
CHILDREN TO PARTICIPATE IN AFTER SCHOOL AND SUMMER
SCHOOL PROGRAMS.
8
THIS INITIATIVE WILL NOT ONLY GIVE WORKING
PARENTS THE PEACE OF MIND THEY NEED AND DESERVE.
BY PROMOTING ACADEMICALLY ENRICHED AFTER SCHOOL
AND SUMMER PROGRAMS, WE'RE ALSO HELPING
AMERICA'S CHILDREN GET THE EXTRA HELP THEY NEED TO
SUCCEED.
WE'VE ALSO LEARNED -- FROM LISTENING TO YOU --
THAT TOO MANY FAMILIES ARE CAUGHT IN THE MIDDLE
BETWEEN NURTURING THEIR GROWING CHILDREN -- AND
NURSING THEIR ELDERLY OR DISABLED PARENTS. so THE
PRESIDENT IS PROPOSING NEW LONG TERM CARE
ASSISTANCE THAT INCLUDES HELP FOR ELDERLY AND
DISABLED AMERICANS AS WELL AS THEIR THE CARE GIVERS
-- MOST OF WHOM ARE FAMILY MEMBERS ALREADY
STRUGGLING TO BALANCE FAMILY AND WORK.
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THE PRESIDENT RECOGNIZES THAT AS MUCH PROGRESS
AS WE'VE MADE, WE MUST DO MORE TO HELP FAMILIES
MEET THEIR OBLIGATIONS AS WORKERS, AND THEIR EVEN
MORE IMPORTANT RESPONSIBILITIES AS PARENTS. TO DO
SO, WE MUST MOVE FORWARD NOT ONLY IN THE AREAS
THAT I'VE JUST MENTIONED -- BUT IN OTHER CRITICAL
AREAS LIKE RAISING THE MINIMUM WAGE; PASSING THE
PATIENT'S BILL OF RIGHTS; AND EXPANDING ACCESS TO
HEALTH CARE.
TODAY, LET'S CELEBRATE HOW FAR WE'VE COME
SINCE THE PRESIDENT FIRST PRESENTED HIS VISION FOR
AMERICA'S FAMILIES MORE THAN SIX YEARS AGO -- AND
REDOUBLE OUR EFFORTS TO BUILD UPON THIS
REMARKABLE RECORD OF ACHIEVEMENT IN THE MONTHS
AHEAD.
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INTRODUCE A MAN WHO IS DEEPLY COMMITTED TO
AMERICA'S FAMILIES. A VISIONARY LEADER AND A DEAR
FRIEND: VICE PRESIDENT AL GORE.
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community, any village, is successful depends on
the quality of the people. And so many of you --
day in and day out, in your homes, in your
workplaces, in your churches, in every place you
are -- you are making the kind of effort that enables
the rest of us to stand and say congratulations for
the progress that we have seen take place here. And
up on the stage are some representative citizens
who have made contributions in ways that might
make headlines, or may only quietly be celebrated
by the few people who are touched. And I want to
thank these local heros -- some of whom were
introduced here before, and some of whom are on
the stage -- and I'd like to ask all of them to stand
and be recognized for what you do and what you
represent for this community. (Applause)
I want to thank my friend, Tipper Gore, for her
introduction. I expected, after Connie introduced
her, to see her come up to the podium on
rollerblades, but she didn't bring them with her
today. (Laughter) I want to thank her for the work
she's done. But as she was up here speaking, I
remembered the wonderful day back in the summer
of 1992, in August, when we went to Chitaqua and
then we came here to Buffalo. (Applause) And we
were able to meet some of you and talk to many
others about what this President and this Vice
President wanted to do for our country. Well, here
we are. It's a little colder outside, but the
enthusiasm is even greater, because it wasn't just a
speech that was given on a hot August afternoon.
We now have six years of solid results and
accomplishments that have really kept faith with
the people of America. (Applause)
On that bus trip, my husband talked about how we
needed to raise wages for working Americans; how
we needed more jobs so that people could make a
decent living; how we needed to improve child care
and strengthen our schools; and how we needed to
do all we could to give parents the support they
needed to do the most important job in the world --
raising our children; how we needed to provide
health care; and the other challenges that we were
facing in our nation. Well, I am very, very proud
that over the past six years, my husband has never,
ever taken his eyes off those fundamental goals that
he talked to you about all those years ago.
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enjoyed more than anything is just sitting and
listening, talking about what we all wanted for our
futures, what we cared about for our children, what
kind of America we wanted to contribute to. And
I've learned more than I could ever tell you. I've
learned about how it is that all of us are attempting
to deal with the challenges of our everyday lives:
parenting, schooling, working, making
contributions to our community. And how there are
ways -- very explicit ways -- that our government
can either help us or hinder us. And there are so
many examples we could call on. I just want to
mention a few. I've learned, very importantly, how
we have to give parents time off from work to do
what they need to do to care for a child or to care
for an older relative. (Applause) That's why the
most important piece of legislation that the
President could have signed first was the Family
and Medical Leave Law. And last night he asked
the Congress to expand the Family and Medical
Leave Law to 10 million more working Americans.
(Applause)
I've also learned from listening to people that
sometimes parents are penalized at work for being
parents, and we need to end any discrimination in
the workplace against parents, just as the President
called for in the speech last night. (Applause)
I've also learned what all of you know: that we
need more affordable, quality child care. Too many
low- and middle-income families can not afford the
child care they need. And so the President is
proposing, once again, that the Congress adopt his
plan to provide more quality child care, but he's
also proposing new tax relief to help over a million
parents who stay at home with their young children,
because they need our support as well. (Applause)
We also know that if we provide after-school care
and summer school opportunities, more young
children will be able to succeed at school. And as
the President said last night, let's make it possible
for every child to be a success. Let's not turn our
backs on those children who aren't doing well. But
let's not promote them if they're not doing well,
let's help them to do better and to be successful in
school. (Applause)
So for all of us who care about families, who care
about supporting parents, who care about our
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far we have come since that August day in 1992,
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And it is now my honor and privelage to introduce
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Paula Gavin, President, YMCA
Kevin Jeffrey, Executive Director, Bedford YMCA
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PARTICIPANTS:
The First Lady
Representative Edolphus Towns
Ellen Galinski, President, Families and
Work Institute
Kevin Jeffrey, Executive Director, Bedford YMCA
Eileen Quinones, Roundtable participant
Angelina Charriez, Roundtable participant
Debbie O'Connor, Roundtable participant
Ameenah Reed, Roundtable participant
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Governor Roy Romer
Steven Grossman, Chairman, Democratic National
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Joe Andrew, Chairman nominee
Beth Dozoretz, Finance Chair, Democratic National
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Alan Patricof, Event Chair
Sirio Maccioni, Owner, Le Cirque Restaurant
Egi Maccioni, son
Mairo Maccioni, son
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Mario Maccioni, son
Lauren Maccioni, wife
Olivia Maccioni, daughter
Benito Sevarin, General Manager, Le Cirque
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FAMILIES AGENDA ROUNDTABLE BROOKLYN
DATE:
Tuesday, February 2
TIME:
4:00 pm - 5:10 pm
LOCATION:
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Brooklyn, New York
FROM:
Brenda Costello and
Natasha McMahan
I.
PURPOSE
To take part in a discussion with working parents and to highlight President Clinton's
Families Agenda, unveiled today as part of his FY2000 budget proposal.
II.
BACKGROUND
Overview
On Tuesdayafternoon you will take part in a discussion with working parents and listen
to their concerns about balancing responsibilities at home and work. This is an
opportunity to address how the Families Agenda of the President's FY2000 budget will
help families struggling to meet their responsibilities to their jobs and to their families,
through its crucial investments to strengthen child care, increase before- and after-school
opportunities, address growing long-term care needs, and expand access to family and
medical leave. There will be an audience of approximately 150 people, mainly working
parents. You will also be joined by Congressman Edolphus Towns (D-NY/10th).
The YMCA of Greater New York
The YMCA of Greater New York is a community service organization which promotes
positive values through programs that build spirit, mind and body, welcoming all people
with a focus on youth. The YMCA of Greater New York was founded in 1852 in New York
City. It is one of the two oldest YMCAs in the United States, and its 3,281 staff members
and 3, 645 volunteers serve 121,000 youth and 227,000 adults, while its nine residences
comprise 2,200 rooms. The New York City YMCA is the largest of 2,001 YMCAs in the
United States and of 130 countries worldwide.
The YMCA of Greater New York has 19 branches and nearly 200 sites, and it is one the
city's major child care providers. In addition to the more well-known fitness and
recreation aspects, the YMCA programs include the Virtual Y, an after-school program
focused on literacy in 100 public elementary schools, which you saw firsthand one year ago
at a Harlem Elementary School; child care; day camps; sleep-away camps; sports leagues;
top fitness centers; teen centers; leaders clubs; youth skills certification; environmental
education; self-esteem, and more. Camping services includes three YMCA camps on 1,000
acres in upstate New York and the Mary French Rockefeller Environmental Education
Center, which opened in 1997. The Harlem YMCA now hosts a popular "Book Marks"
series featuring prominent African American authors.
As you may recall, you visited a Virtual Y at P.S. 154 in Harlem in January, 1998. The
Virtual Y program was designed and launched in 10 pilot school sites by the YMCA of
Greater New York in 1997. In the 1997-1998 school year, the Virtual Y program opened 100
schools serving 7,000 children all 32 school districts. Eventually, the Virtual Y will be
housed in 200 schools and will reach more than 10,000 of New York City's 2nd, 3rd, and
4th graders--at least 50 children per site. The Virtual Y is a nationally recognized
partnership between New York City Board of Education and the United Way of New York
City, and is funded by leading corporations, foundations and individual donors. Children
participate in the program free of charge.
The Bedford Stuyvesant YMCA
The Bedford Stuyvesant YMCA faces enormous challenges. The community is plagued by
urban problems on a far larger scale than those faced by New York City as a whole. The
level of poverty is staggering, with nearly 44% of families receiving some form of public
assistance. Other negative socio-economic indicators include a high rate of teen pregnancy,
a high school drop-out rate, high levels of violence and family instability, and more
recently, youth gang activity in Bedford-Stuyvesant and increased. Situated in the
northwest section of the Brooklyn Bedford Stuyvesant Community, the Bedford Stuyvesant
YMCA opened in 1906 and primarily serves the African American and Hispanic
communities.
Bedford Stuyvesant YMCA has been renovating its facilities and has continued to build
programs to help more young people succeed. In 1998, highlights of the Bedford
Stuyvesant YMCA's efforts included renovating and opening its pool, its fourth floor
gymnasium, and its new fully-equipped fitness facility. In addition to fitness and
recreational facilities, the Branch provides adult employment training in commercial
cooking, secretarial skills, air conditioning and refrigeration repair.
Bedford Stuyvesant YMCA hopes to serve as a nexus for other service providers in the
community, helping to extend the scope and effectiveness of other agencies. To that end,
the Bedford Stuyvesant YMCA has launched an aggressive ten-year strategic plan aimed
toward providing expanded programs for children and youths as well as increasing adult
membership.
After-School Program
The Bedford Stuyvesant YMCA also conducts a YMCA-based after-school program at its
Youth Activity Center. The after-school program serves up to 50 young people and
employs a similar whole language learning approach. The staff ratio in the after-school
program is 1 to 10. Children in both programs receive a nourishing meal, assistance with
reading, writing and math, recreation and socialization skills training for 15 hours per
week. Several grants have allowed the YMCA to open satellite after-school programs in
Public Schools 56 and 305. Future plans include a more expansive educational program
featuring a library, with computers and Internet accessibility.
In addition to after-school programs, the Bedford Stuyvesant YMCA offers teen programs
such as teen nights for basketball, swimming, and games; tournaments; youth and
government where the youth study the legislative process; college information and
financial aid services; youth skills certification to provide teens the basic skills to seek
employment, and more. There are even special programs devoted to girls/women only--
Operation Smart, with a focus on math and science, Strong Women United, with a focus on
strengthening the bonds between women and girls, and Girls-Only Leagues, with a focus
on the physical development of young women.
Child Care Advocacy Day in New York
Tuesday is Child Care Advocacy Day in New York, and a coalition of child care
organizations are holding a rally in Albany to protest Governor Pataki's budget on child
care. Principally, the rally will protest the budget's effective elimination of the State's
Universal Pre-K in favor of an Education Improvement Block Grant to the counties with
no targeted funding for Pre-K education. Also, the rally will urge greater investment in
child care subsidies; although Governor Pataki's budget does increase investment in
subsidies through a $120 million transfer from the TANF welfare fund and a $200 million
child care reserve fund for counties, it will not enable the program to serve all children who
meet federal eligibility requirements (85 percent of state median income). See attached
Child Care, Inc. press release.
Format
Tuesday will open with a brief meet and greet. Following the meet and greet, there will
be opening remarks and then you will engage in a panel discussion with working parents.
III.
PARTICIPANTS
Meet and Greet
-The First Lady
-Congressman Edolphus Towns, D-NY/10th
-Kevin Jeffrey, Executive Director, Bedford Stuyvesant YMCA
-Meredith Wagner, Vice President of Lifetime Television
-Local Elected Officials (see attached list)
-4 Roundtable Discussion Participants (see bios attached)
Discussion
-The First Lady
-Kevin Jeffrey, Executive Director, Bedford Stuyvesant YMCA
-Congressman Edolphus Towns, D-NY/10th
-Ellen Galinsky, President, Families and Work Institute
-4 Roundtable Discussion Participants (see bios attached)
IV.
SEQUENCE OF EVENTS
-See final schedule
V.
PRESS
Open press.
VI. REMARKS
Provided by Laura Schiller.
FIRST LADY HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON
TALKING POINTS FOR FAMILIES AGENDA ROUND TABLE
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[Acknowledgments] We are also fortunate to be joined today by parents from this
community and all over New York. When it comes to meeting our obligations at home
and work, there are no better experts than the working parents in this room who struggle
to strike that balance every single day. And I want to thank all of you for telling your
stories -- including those of you who took the time to e-mail them to Lifetime
Television's Child Care Campaign.
It is especially appropriate that we have this conversation at the Bedford-Stuyvesant
YMCA. What you have shown is that an entire community can come together to
strengthen families and ensure no child falls through the cracks. I want to congratulate
you on focusing this YMCA program on young people -- so they have safe places to go;
parents and other caring adults to help guide them and love them; and meaningful
activities that give them something to say "yes" to -- from sports to the Virtual Y after-
school program (which I also had the privilege of visiting last year in Harlem).
As you may know, yesterday the President presented an historic balanced budget that
answers the fundamental questions about what families -- and our entire nation -- will
need to succeed in the next century. It preserves the lifelines of Medicare and Social
Security. It invests in our children's education and the research that will help discover the
cures to our greatest killers. And it puts forth a bold families agenda to help Americans
balance their obligations to the jobs they need and the children and parents they love.
Clearly today, more mothers are working. More children are in child care. More
Americans are getting older. And that the pressures facing parents have changed
dramatically. A recent study by the Family and Work Institute confirms what all of us
intuitively know. It shows that, from 1977 to 1997, parents working more than 20 hours a
week report much higher levels of conflict between their work and family life.
Over the last six years, at events like this one, my husband and I have heard from
countless working parents who are finding themselves in the sandwich generation --
struggling to get quality, affordable care for their children and parents. So, I am very
pleased that President's budget includes four important proposals to help working parents
-- and our nation -- meet these challenges:
1. His budget significantly increases our investment in child care. A Brooklyn woman
recently wrote to Lifetime Television: "It is difficult enough to raise healthy and happy children
in today's society without having to worry about whether they are receiving affordable and
quality day care." We know finding safe, affordable, and enriching child care is one of the
greatest concerns working parents face. We know how important those early years are in helping
a child learn and grow for a lifetime. And we know that millions of families who are eligible for
child care assistance can't get it, often because states have more applicants than they can serve.
The President's budget will help low-income parents pay for child care for 1.15 million
more children. It will provide an average tax cut of about $350 for low and middle income
families. And it will improve quality so that children come to school ready to learn.
2. The President's budget makes an unprecedented commitment to after-school care. At
3:00 today, parents in this city and across America were engaged in a ritual many of you are all
too familiar with: They started looking up at the clock, worrying about whether their school-aged
children are safe and out of trouble. It's easy to understand why. The 5 to 15 million latch-key
kids in America are more likely to use alcohol, drugs, and tobacco; commit crimes; receive poor
grades; and drop out of school than those involved in constructive activities.
Last year, the President fought hard -- and won -- a significant expansion of after-school
programs. And, in his budget, he has made a commitment to triple that investment -- so
that one million more children will have safe places to learn and play and grow after school
and during the summer.
3. The President's budget includes an historic initiative to support Americans with long-
term care needs -- and the millions of people who are voluntarily and informally helping
them. Almost 40 percent of the informal care aging Americans receive is provided by their
children. Most are women. And more and more of them are also trying to find the time and
money to care for their own children. The aging of America will only increase the need for
quality long term care.
The President has called for a new $1,000 tax credit to help pay for a wide range of formal
and informal care. And he has asked for $625 million to provide more respite, home care
services, and information to the 250,000 families caring for elderly relatives who are sick or
disabled.
4. The President's budget expands access to Family and Medical Leave. This week marks
the 6th anniversary of the Family and Medical Leave Act, the first piece of legislation the
President signed into law. Since then, millions of Americans have been able to take up to 12
weeks of leave to care for a newborn or adopted child, to help a seriously ill parent, child, or
spouse, or to attend to their own serious health problems. And they've been able to do this
without worrying if it'll cost them their jobs.
Now the President is proposing to extend the promises of the Family and Medical Leave
Act to 10 million more Americans who work in smaller companies.
What you have shown in this community is that it takes all of us -- teachers, coaches,
religious leaders, businesses, government officials, and others -- to help parents succeed
at work and in the toughest, most important job any of us will ever have: raising healthy
children. But we also know that only parents can find the right balance between work
and family. Because the right balance is the one that works for their family.
So, what I hope we can do today is to hear directly from parents about the challenges they
face in meeting their obligations at home and work. And I can't think of a better person
to kick-off this discussion than Ellen Galinsky, the President of the Family and Work
Institute. She has done so much to help us understand these challenges -- and find
innovative ways to meet them. Ellen
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CHILD CARE CHALLENGES
I) CHILD CARE ABC's: The need for child care and early education has become
a fact of life for many New York parents.
Every day, about 960,900 children younger than six are in child care in New York if national
patterns hold true. This is three out of five young children-and half of all children younger
than three-who spend some or all of their day being cared for by someone other than their
parents. Children enter care as early as six weeks of age and may be in care for 40 hours a
week until they reach school age.
Most mothers in New York work to help support their families. An estimated 53 percent of
New York mothers with children younger than six, and 72 percent of women with children
between the ages of six and 17, are in the labor force. 2
For many mothers in New York and across the country, work is not optional. Nationally, the
majority (55 percent) of working women provide half or more of their household income,
about half of America's families with young children earn less than $35,000 per year, 4 and
one out of three children of working mothers are poor even though their mothers work or
would be poor if their mothers did not work.⁵
II) CHILD CARE COSTS: Quality child care is unaffordable for many working
families in New York.
Child care is costly for many families in New York.
Child care often costs more than a college education at a public university. For example, the
average annual cost of public college tuition in New York in 1997 was $3,797⁶-about two-
thirds the average cost of care for a four-year-old in a center.
Many families in New York earn too little to be able to afford the quality child care their
children need. Families in New York with both parents working full-time at the federal
minimum wage earn only $21,400 per year. There are about 1,529,000 children younger than
13 who live in low-income families (with incomes below 200 percent of poverty, or about
$27,000 for a family of three).
In New York, child care for one four-year-old in a child care center cost an average of $5,612
in 1995, with fees as high as $8,580. Child care is costly for families whether they live in
urban or rural areas. For example, the average annual cost of care for a four-year-old in a
center in Albany County was $6,708, and the average cost in Binghamton/Broome County
was $5,148. These expenses are for only one child-families with more than one child in
care spend significantly more.
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Annual Cost of Child Care in New York⁹
Child Care Centers (1995)
Binghamton/
Statewide
Albany County
Broome County
Age of child
Average
High
Average
High
Average
High
12 months
$6,346
$9,360
$7,956
n.a.
$5,616
n.a.
4 years
$5,612
$8,580
$6,708
n.a.
$5,148
n.a.
8 years
$3,378
$5,103
$4,660
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Family Child Care Homes (1995)
Binghamton/
Statewide
Albany County
Broome County
Age of child
Average
High
Average
High
Average
High
12 months
$5,020
$7,800
$5,980
n.a.
$4,680
n.a.
4 years
$4,718
$7,280
$5,200
n.a.
$4,420
n.a.
8 years
$3,378
$5,103
$3,450
n.a.
$3,127
n.a.
To buy child care for an infant and a four-year-old in a child care center at the average price
in New York, a two-parent family with both parents working full-time at the minimum wage
($21,400 a year before taxes) would have to spend 56 percent of their income for child care.
Many low-income working families in New York are unable to get the child care assistance
they need to work and help their children thrive.
New York allows only low-income working families earning less than $26,964 (for a family
of three) to be eligible for any child care help, although federal law allows the state to serve
families with incomes up to $36,179. New York's income cutoff is lower than that in a
number of other states, including Pennsylvania."¹
Although New York's cutoff is not at the level allowed under federal law, the state does not
have enough funds to serve all eligible families who apply for child care help and must place
many of these families on waiting lists. 12 In New York City alone, there are about 28,000
low-income families waiting to receive subsidized child care, one-third of whom are welfare
recipients. 13 Research has shown that parents waiting for child care assistance are likely to
face serious financial difficulties, have difficulty staying employed, go on welfare, and/or to
have serious concerns about their children's care because they cannot afford good quality
child care. 14
New York's waiting lists for child care assistance may underestimate the number of eligible
families who need help paying for care and are not receiving it. The state reports that there
are some eligible families who do not apply for assistance because they do not even know it
is available. If these additional families were to apply for help, the state is not confident that
it could serve them, according to a recent survey. 15
New York does not invest enough to help families pay for the good care that children need.
The state spent only 90 cents out of every $100 in state tax revenues on child care and early
education in 1994. Despite the critical importance of brain development in the first three
years of life, New York spent 16 times as much in state funds on higher education than on
child care and early education. 16
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Parents need child care so they can work
A mother in Ferndale tells what child care assistance means to her
family: "Without child care I would have to depend on welfare to
provide for my family. My children have been at Twin Bridge day care
for almost six years. I'm very thankful for day care: It S hard enough
being a single parent but without day care it. would be impossible.
In the coming years, New York will face even greater challenges trying to provide child
care assistance to all families who need it as welfare work requirements rise.
Welfare reform efforts will significantly expand the need for child care for very young
children (younger than age three). Under the new welfare rules, the parents of as many as
135,000 infants and toddlers in New York will no longer be exempt from the work
requirements and will be subject to sanctions if they fail to find work. Even factoring in
recent welfare caseload reductions, it was estimated that for families moving from welfare to
work, the number of additional infants and toddlers needing child care would rise from more
than 27,000 more infants and toddlers in FY 1997 (when work participation rates were 19.5
percent) to 67,500 more needing care by year 2002 (when participation rates will reach 50
percent). These figures are conservative estimates based on minimal participation rates—
they do not reflect the goal of moving all recipients to work, which would mean providing
care for significantly higher numbers of children. 18
In New York City alone, welfare reform could nearly double the demand for child care
services, according the Office of the State Deputy Comptroller. While an additional 61,000
children may need care by the end of FY 1999 (assuming the state enforces the two-year
work requirement and the City does not displace the working poor who are currently
receiving subsidized child care), the City has provided funding for only an additional 27,500
children by FY 2001. Estimates are that an additional $135 to $225 million will be needed
(beginning in FY 2000) to serve the remaining 33,500 children. 19
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The inad quate supply of child care for low-income families in New York City
seriously undercuts the success of welfare reform and
jeopardizes children's safety
A shortage of child care in New York City means that families trying to comply with welfare
reform work requirements 20 face a series of terrible dilemmas, as reported by the New York Iin ES
in April 1998.
The city faces an acute shortage of child care for low-income families.
Estimates are that while almost 48,000 children of welfare mothers currently need child
care in New York City, there is only room for about 19,000 of them in licensed child care.
The shortage is particularly severe in areas where there are many families trying to move
off welfare. The New York Human Services Administration estimates that more than two-
thirds of the children nee ding child care in the Morrisania section of the Bronx (67 percent)
and in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn (71 percent) lack child care options.
As a result, mothers on welfare are unable to participate in welfare to work activities,
The city has excused nearly 3,000 mothers from having to work because they are unable to
find child care. However, these mothers are still subject to time limits for welfare, which
means that they are losing valuable time needed to build their work skills and work
experience
caseworkers are illegally threatening to reduce the welfare checks of women who are
unable to find care
Although it is against the law, caseworkers are threatening to reduce welfare benefits- a
survey of 73 mothers on welfare by the Public Advocate found that 46 (almost two-thirds)
had been told they we e in jeopardy of losing their benefits. Many other mothers report
similar experiences, and the New York Times reporter witnessed a caseworker telling a
mother she would face sanctions if she could not find care
W hile the New York City Office of Employment Services (OES) requires caseworkers to
offer each parent two child care opportunities (one of which has to be registered), a recent
report by the Public Advocate found that OES does not give parents sufficient information
to make informed decisions and instead steers parents into unregulated, unmonitored and
decidedly less expensive informal care."
and low-income mothers are facing the unacceptable choice of either using unsafe child
care, or losing their basic financial support.
When her caseworker threatened to reduce her benefits, Wendy Virgos had to leave her 17-
month-old daughter with a woman who kept her strapped in a dirty stroller all day to
protect" her from the older children.
Digna Jimenez begged her caseworker to help her find child care because the only baby-
sitter she knew had slapped her child When the caseworker refused her plea, Digna was
left without child care and lost $50 out of her $260 in cash benefits.
Gloria Santiago cash benefits were reduced because she refused to accept a slot in a
program that would have required her three year old son to ride on the bus 45 minutes each
way. "It's hard on me. she said, "but he is my only baby boy.
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Other evidence demonstrates problems with the quality of child care in New York.
Many parents want their children to get the high quality care provided by nationally
accredited child care programs-yet such programs are scarce in New York. In 1997, only
about 248 of New York's 3,426 licensed child care centers (or 7 percent) were accredited. 34
Only 83 of the 17,715 state's licensed family and group child care homes had accreditation.³
IV) CHILD CARE AVAILABILITY: Families across New York face difficulties
finding quality, affordable care. The lack of such care is even greater for
some groups of families, including families with school-age children and
families with children younger than three.
The scarcity of good after-school options leaves many New York school-age children home
alone and at risk of harm.
Many New York families with school-age children are low-income and have difficulty
affording child care. For example, the Census Bureau estimates that 780,756 school-age
children (ages five to 17) in New York live in families with incomes below the poverty line
($13,300 for a family of three in 1997). 36
My concern, now that I m king, is how to pay for summer child care since I
will not have enough money for food
A single mother of two school-age children,
from Suffolk County, New York
New York children are among the nearly five million children nationwide who are home
alone after school each week, 38 during the afternoon hours when juvenile crime peaks. 39
However, studies show that children who are left unsupervised after school are at greater risk
of problem behaviors such as smoking and substance abuse⁴⁰ and that constructive activities
can keep children out of trouble.
Good after-school options in schools, churches, and community organizations can help
children and teens do well in school and stay out of trouble, but they are inadequate in many
communities. In New York, only one in four public schools (3,904 or 23 percent) offered
extended-day programs in 1993-1994. Nationwide, this problem is even more serious in low-
income neighborhoods.
In many areas of New York, there are few options for school-age children, either in the
public schools or in other locations. In 20 of state's 62 counties, there are three or fewer
registered school-age programs and in four rural counties (Allegany, Hamilton, Washington,
and Yates) there are no registered programs for school-age children at all.⁴²
Our youngest children are particularly vulnerable to poor care, yet quality affordable care
for children younger than three is scarce in New York.
Many of our youngest and most vulnerable children are in child care-nationwide, almost
half of all babies younger than 12 months are regularly spending their day being cared for by
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someone other than their parents.⁴³ This means as many as 115,100 babies in New York are
in child care if national patterns hold true.⁴⁴
Both common sense and research tell us that children's brains are growing most quickly
during their first three years of life, and that their experiences during these critical early years
lay the foundation for the rest of their lives. The quality of the care New York's young
children receive affects the way they think, learn, and behave.
Far too many of our youngest children are not getting the quality care they need. Although a
close nurturing relationship with an attentive caregiver is critical to helping babies grow, in
1997 New York was one of only 13 states that met recommended levels for the number of
babies and toddlers a single caregiver was allowed to care for.45
Care for infants is more costly than for older children-which makes it even more difficult
for families in New York to be able to afford the quality care their children need to thrive.
Child care for a 12-month-old in a child care center in New York in 1995 averaged $6,346,
but could cost as much as $9,360.4
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CHILD CARE FACTS AT A GLANCE
Children and Families in New York
Number of children younger than one47
255,704
Number of children younger than six⁴⁸
1,601,561
Number of children ages six to 17"
2,938,973
If national trends hold true, estimated number of:
children under one cared for by someone other than their parents⁵⁰
115,100
children under six cared for by someone other than their parents⁵¹
960,900
Percentage of mothers with children under six in the labor force2
53%
Percentage of mothers with children ages six to 17 in the labor force⁵³
72%
Child Care Not Affordable for Many Families in New York
Number of children younger than 13 living in low-income families (< 200% of poverty)⁵⁴
1,529,040
Earnings of two-parent families with both parents working full-time at minimum wage
$21,400
Average cost of tuition at a public university in New York
$3,797
Annual Child Care Costs in New York56
Child Care Centers (1995)
Statewide
Albany County
Binghamton/Broome County
Age of Child
Average
High
Average
High
Average
High
12 months
$6,346
$9,360
$7,956
n.a.
$5,616
n.a.
4 years
$5,612
$8,580
$6,708
n.a.
$5,148
n.a.
8 years
$3,378
$5,103
$4,660
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Family Child Care Homes (1995)
Statewide
Albany County
Binghamton/Broome County
Age of Child
Average
High
Average
High
Average
High
12 months
$5,020
$7,800
$5,980
n.a.
$4,680
n.a.
4 years
$4,718
$7,280
$5,200
n.a.
$4,420
n.a.
8 years
$3,378
$5,103
$3,450
n.a.
$3,127
n.a.
Many Children in New York Do Not Get the Quality Child Care They Need
Does New York require any training for teachers in child care centers prior to serving children? ⁵⁸
No
Does New York require any training for family child care providers prior to serving children? 59
No
Average salary for a child care worker in New York in 199660
$14,400
Percentage of child care centers in New York that were accredited as of 1997
7%
Number of Children of Different Ages Allowed per Caregiver
in Child Care Centers in 1997 in New York
Number of Children
Does State Requirement
Age of Child
Allowed per Caregiver
Recommended Level⁶³
Meet Recommended Level?
9 months
4
3-4
Yes
18 months
5
3-5
Yes
27 months
5
4-6
Yes
3 years
7
7-10
Yes
4 years
8
8-10
Yes
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Other Child Care Indicators in New York
Number of licensed child care centers in 199764
3,426
Number of licensed group child care homes in 199765
2.537
Number of registered family child care homes in 1997
15.178
Number of registered school-age care programs in 199767.
1,590
Percentage of public schools offering extended-day programs 1993-199468
23%
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Child Care. Inc. 275 Seventh Ave NY, NY 10001 Toh 212-929-7604 Fex. 212-929-5785 [email protected].
January 29, 1999
GOVERNOR PATAKI'S EXECUTIVE BUDGET:
CONTRADICTORY INITIATIVES FOR YOUNG CHILDREN
CHILD CARE EXPANDED - UNIVERSAL PROGRAM ENDED
Governor Pataki released his Executive Budget for Fiscal Year 1999-2000 on Wednesday, January 27th The governor
revealed his child care initiative which included increased funding for child care. However, while the governor has
taken a good first step in the right direction with additional funding for child care he has simultaneously eliminated the
Universal PreK program. The governor has block granted all of the LADDER initiatives (one of which is Universal
PreK) and has created a new Education Improvement Block Grant. Both proposals are outlined below. The next 30
days are a critical time to contact the Governor and urge him to restore the Universal Pre-K program with full
funding.
GOVERNOR'S CHILD CARE PROPOSAL:
GOVERNOR'S
UNIVERSAL PRE-K PROPOSAL:
Child Care Development Block (CCBG):
$120 Million
Educational Improvement Block Grant:
A new transfer of $120 million from the State's welfare
(TANF) surplus will be added to the current Child Care
All LADDER grant initiatives funded in 1998 are eliminated
Block Grant for market rate adjustments and child care
including Universal PreK. Funding for the Early Grades
subsidies. This would help serve an additional 13,000
Class Size Reduction to be implemented in the 1999-2000
children state wide.
school year is not included in the proposed budget. The
proposal creates an Educational Improvement Block Grant
A Child Care Reserve Fund:
from which counties can use to fund these programs.
$200 Million
An additional $200 million of the TANF surplus will be
This proposal dismantles the Universal Pre-K program.
put in a reserve fund for a three year period (1999-2002).
Without the specific legislative language and structure the
Counties would receive a supplemental allocation to
program will not have a statewide framework for a
their block grant. Counties could draw down from the
committed systemic approach for an early learning program
reserve fund after spending down their allocation,
for four year olds.
including the new share from the $120 million.
The Universal ProK program should be restored as a
separate clearly defined initiative.
Quality Set-a-Side:
$45 Million
(with some flexibility)
The quality set-a-side portion of the CCBG remains at
$45 million with some flexibility to support needed
CALL THE GOVENOR ! / /
program and professional development costs. A portion
of the reserve is available for additional quality set-a-
Tel: 518-474-8390
side spending, equal to $25 million of the $200 million.
Email: [email protected]
MESSAGE:
Restore designated funding
THE CHILD CARE that WORKS
for Universal PreK at a sufficient level to
CALLS FOR:
support a minimum of $2,700 per child
A six year commitment to serve 42,000 additional
for 40,000 children.
children in Year I by making subsidized child care
available to families earning up to 85% of state
FEBRUARY 2ND IS CHILD CARE ADVOCACY DAY
median income.
IF YOU CAN'T MAKE IT TO ALBANY
Investments in professional development, salaries,
GET
YOUR MESSAGE TO THE GOVERNOR
college student child care and CCR&R S.
VIA, LETTER, PHONE, OR FAX
Investments in facilities expansion.
NYS Assembly: 518-455-4100: NYS Senate: 518-455-2800
ne proposal was released by the Child Care that Works Campaign on December 8, 1998.
For more information regarding the proposal, and this year's funding requests, contact: New York State Child Care Coordinating
Council, Phone: (518) 463-8663, Fax: (518) 427-6603.
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HEADLINE: Mrs. Clinton Campaigns, But for Programs, Not Office
BYLINE: By ADAM NAGOURNEY
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To an exuberant reaction and in an atmosphere charged with speculation about her political future,
Hillary Rodham Clinton campaigned in Brooklyn yesterday not for any office, but for the social
spending programs in the budget her husband sent to Congress this week.
"I want to help people who are trying to help themselves," the First Lady said at a Y.M.C.A. in
Bedford-Stuyvesant. "It's hard for me to accept that we're not going to help working moms like you."
The setting came right out of President Clinton's own campaign repertory. Mrs. Clinton participated in
what was presented as a spontaneous discussion about day care programs with an invited panel of guests
-- in this case working parents in front of an audience that included a platform filled with television
cameras. And it was typical of what the Administration has done in the days after Mr. Clinton has
unveiled a budget, in an effort to promote parts of it across the nation.
But the context was different this time, as was evident from the heavy concentration of news media that
turned out for what was otherwise an unremarkable conversation between Mrs. Clinton and panelists. It
was a testimony to the interest generated by the mere suggestion that Mrs. Clinton may run for the
position being vacated by Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan after he retires next year.
The audience in Bedford-Stuyvesant sat at stilled attention as Mrs. Clinton, in her one public stop before
appearing with the President at a $10,000-a-plate fund-raiser at Le Cirque last night, endorsed Federal
spending on day care for children and the elderly.
It was clearly a politically sympathetic crowd, and the reaction afterward reflected that. "I would like to
see her run for Senate," said Letisha Wadsworth, a day care services administrator. "I think she has a
good sense of the needs of people in working communities like this."
Donna Fleming, a regional administrator at the New York Public Library, said: "I think she should run
for President. I think she's past the point of running for Senate, don't you?"
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BYLINE: ROBERT HARDT Jr. and TOM TOPOUSIS
BODY:
First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton hosted an Oprah-style discussion with struggling parents at a
Brooklyn YMCA yesterday - - while carefully avoiding talk of her political future.
Mrs. Clinton visited Brooklyn yesterday just hours before joining her husband at the day's main event - -
a $10,000-a-head Democratic fund-raiser at Manhattan's swanky Le Cirque restaurant last night.
Speaking to about 250 invited guests in the Bedford-Stuyvesant Y, Mrs. Clinton received two standing
ovations during her 45-minute talk.
"This is a very welcome respite from Washington, where sometimes you wonder but here in New York
you can get it done," Mrs. Clinton said to rousing applause.
For much of the round-table talk, Mrs. Clinton listened to mothers who told her of their difficulties in
trying to make ends meet.
"Many of us are just one event away from finding ourselves in a position we never thought we'd find
ourselves in," she said.
"What's that old American Indian saying about walk a mile in somebody else's moccasins? See the world
from somebody else's perspective."
Many of the guests said they could see Mrs. Clinton in the U.S. Senate.
"I think she would be a big plus for New York state if she was our senator," said Elizabeth Sanders, the
executive director of the East New York Council for the Aging.
"I admire her. She's the epitome of what womanhood should be. She's weathering the storm."
Mrs. Clinton has never spoken about the possibility of running for the Senate in New York, but several
Democratic leaders have said they hope she will run for Sen. Daniel P. Moynihan's seat, which he is
vacating in 2001.
"I would vote for her in a second," gushed Ida Mae Martin, 65, who lives in Bedford-Stuyvesant.
"She's a strong woman who can take all the hard knocks."
Mrs. Clinton and her husband last night co-hosted a Democratic National Committee fund-raiser at the
swanky Le Cirque restaurant which was expected to rake in $1 million for the party.
Expected to attend the event were Ethan Hawke, Glenn Close, Martha Stewart, Miramax honcho Harvey
Weinstein and designer Vera Wang.
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Also scheduled to attend the dinner was Westchester Rep. Nita Lowey, who is also considering running
for Senate next year.
Meanwhile, city tow-truck drivers almost threw a monkey wrench into the NYPD's presidential traffic
plan when a majority of drivers at one garage called in sick.
The dispute over heating at the 38th Street garage caused 42 of 77 drivers to call in sick.
The drivers were supposed to be on hand to clear streets for the presidential motorcade.
Police officials said that even with the hitch, there were enough tow trucks to get the job done.
GRAPHIC: PROFILE IN DISCOURAGE: A silhouetted President Clinton boards Air Force One
bound for Boston yesterday at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland. -AP
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HEADLINE: FIRST LADY SCORES BIG WITH BROOKLYN CROWD
BYLINE: By CAROLINA GONZALEZ and LEO STANDORA
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Hillary Rodham Clinton definitely was the people's choice in Brooklyn yesterday.
The radiant First Lady got a rousing, foot-stomping welcome at a roundtable for beleaguered families at
the Bedford-Stuyvesant YMCA.
This was her first solo visit to the city and the state since Democrats began urging her to seek the seat of
retiring Sen. Daniel Moynihan.
Some local pols last night privately pressed her to run, but Rep. Edolphus Towns (D-Brooklyn) said
"she just smiled there was no answer."
At the Y, more than 200 people packed onto the basketball court jumped to their feet and clapped wildly
as Clinton clad in an elegant dark suit and pale green scarf walked in, beaming.
"I'm as happy to be here as I possibly could be," she said. "I'm happy to be with a group of people
committed to children and to the idea that working families deserve the support they require."
During the discussion, the First Lady explained to audience members how money earmarked in the
President's budget for family care could help them.
The reaction to her was so positive that she quipped after the third standing ovation that "it's appropriate
since we're on a basketball court that we're getting up and down and doing aerobics."
When one woman told how she and her husband watched their retirement fund and their son's college
money disappear when she had to quit her job to care for her ailing mother, Clinton looked out over the
audience and asked, "Is there anyone here who can help this woman?"
Towns pointed out a city official in the crowd and said he'd talk to him.
Clinton smiled and said: "I love coming to meetings where there are people who can get things done.
This is a very welcome respite from Washington."
Clinton, who was traveling separately from her husband, dined in Manhattan with the President last
night.
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HEADLINE: First lady spotlights working moms in budget proposal
BYLINE: CHELSEA J. CARTER, Associated Press Writer
DATELINE: NEW YORK
BODY:
First lady Hillary Rodham Clinton put the spotlight on working moms during a visit to Brooklyn,
highlighting initiatives in the president's $ 1.77 trillion budget that would help women balance work
with caring for children and aging parents.
"The president unveiled a balanced budget that puts families first through a package of initiatives that
will help parents struggling to meet their responsibilities to their jobs and even more important, to their
families," Mrs. Clinton told 300 people gathered Tuesday at a YMCA in the Bedford-Stuyvesant
neighborhood.
In a round-table discussion, Mrs. Clinton heard from women struggling to balance their jobs with caring
for children or elderly parents.
Angelina Charriez told Mrs. Clinton that her 67-year-old mother suffered from a mental ailment and
could not take care for herself.
"We almost lost our home. We lost our car because we couldn't make the payments. I can't work full
time and take care of my mother and my child," she said as she wiped tears from her eyes.
Mrs. Clinton put her hand on Mrs. Charriez's shoulder and promised to follow up with her and the other
women who spoke during the panel discussion.
The president's budget would invest $ 6.2 billion over five years including $ 5.5 billion to provide a $
1,000 tax credit - for families caring for disabled relatives, Mrs. Clinton said. The budget also includes $
250 tax credits for stay-at-home parents caring for children under age 1.
Eileen Quinones, a 33-year-old single working mother, told Mrs. Clinton that she was unable to find
child care for her 18-month-old toddler.
"Because of my income, I make too much money to qualify for subsidies and not enough money to pay
for it myself," she said, struggling to hold back her tears.
The cheapest child care available costs $ 800 a month, Quinones said. As a result, she said, her baby
stays with an aunt.
Mrs. Clinton said Ms. Quinones' problem was not unique.
"We have these very arbitrary rules about who can qualify for subsidies," Mrs. Clinton said. "One of the
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hopes I have is that with the president's budget you would be able to increase the limit of income to
qualify (for child care subsidies)."
Mrs. Clinton's comment was met with a standing ovation.
Debbie O'Conner told Mrs. Clinton how she was forced to take time off work to care for her 16-year-old
daughter, who had been injured in a car accident.
O'Conner said she was able to take the time off thanks to the Family and Medical Leave Act, which
allows people to take time off work in emergencies and be guaranteed their jobs back.
President Clinton is calling for companies with more than 25 workers to participate in the act, which
now only applies to companies with more than 50 workers.
"The president is proposing to extend the benefits of the family medical leave act to 10 million more
Americans by covering workers in companies with 25 or more employees," said Mrs. Clinton. "It's not
only a human moral reason, but his good business sense, because they now have an employee who will
willingly work for them."
After spending about 1 hours with the mothers and their children, Mrs. Clinton headed for a Democratic
National Committee dinner with the president at Manhattan's posh Le Cirque restaurant.
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SCHEDULE FOR HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 7, 1999
FINAL
WASHINGTON, D.C.
SCHEDULER:
MOLLY BUFORD
202/456-5315
PHONE
202/456-5340
FAX
202/244-2125
HOME
WHCA PAGER
#4452
PREV RON Washington, D.C.
1:25 pm
PROCEED to Presidential Hall, Old Executive Office
Building
GREETERS:
Professor Nancy Hopkins, panelist
Sanya Tyler, panelist
Patricia Higgins, panelist
Carolyn Gnatt, panelist
1:30 pm-
EQUAL PAY EVENT [w/POTUS]
2:30 pm
Presidential Hall
OPEN PRESS/WH PHOTO
FORMAT:
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Off-stage announcement of the President and
the First Lady, accompanied by Secretary
Alexis Herman.
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The First Lady makes brief remarks and
introduces the President.
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The President makes remarks and takes his
seat at the table.
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Secretary Herman introduces the panelists and
begins the discussion.
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Upon conclusion of the discussion, the
President and the First Lady depart.
PARTICIPANTS: Approx. 160 guests to attend.
2:40 pm-
VIDEOS
3:00 pm
Room 459, Old Executive Office Building
CLOSED PRESS/NO WH PHOTO
VIDEOS:
SCHEDULE FOR HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 7, 1999
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-Pell Awards for Excellence in the Arts
-Women's Conference of the Americas Plenary
Meeting
-"Beat the Odds" Event, Children's Defense Fund
-Second Annual Mary Higgins Clark Gala
-Ninth National Conference on Children and the Law
-Birthday Greeting for Seamus Heaney's 60th
Birthday
CONTACT: Noa Meyer 202/456-2787
3:15 pm-
STAFF PHOTO FOR ENTERTAINMENT BOOK
3:25 pm
Grand Foyer
CLOSED PRESS/WH PHOTO
PARTICIPANTS:
The First Lady
Approx. 70 staff members
3:30 pm-
PARADE PHOTO SHOOT
4:15 pm
Sculpture Garden
CLOSED PRESS/WH PHOTO
PARTICIPANTS:
The First Lady
Approx. 12 Hillaryland Children
CONTACT: Marsha Berry 202/456-2960
4:20 pm-
ENTERTAINMENT BOOK COVER PHOTO
4:50 pm
Second Floor Dining Room
CLOSED PRESS/WH PHOTO
PARTICIPANTS:
The First Lady
CONTACT: Shirley Sagawa 202/456-6266
5:20 pm-
BUDDY AND SOCKS PHOTO SHOOT
5:50 pm
South Lawn
CLOSED PRESS/WH PHOTO
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 7, 1999
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PARTICIPANTS:
The First Lady
Buddy
Socks
CONTACT: Shirley Sagawa 202/456-6266
RON
Washington, D.C.
April 6, 1999
VIDEOS
DATE:
April 7, 1999
TIME:
2:40 pm
LOCATION:
Old Executive Office Building
FROM:
Noa Meyer
I.
PURPOSE
To record 7 videos
II.
BACKGROUND
American Bar Association (ABA) Center on Children and the Law National Conference
You have been asked to record a video for The American Bar Association (ABA) Center on
Children and the Law's Ninth National Conference on Children and the Law on April 8-10 at the
Wyndham City Center Hotel in Washington, DC. This year celebrates the ABA's twentieth
anniversary. The aims of the conference are to present current research and to focus on skills
building for legal professionals, making them better able to serve the needs of children and
families. While the conference will cover a variety of issues, the main themes will be the
implementation of the Adoption and Safe Families Act and children's health issues. Your video
will appear during the opening plenary session on Friday, April 9 and will be shown to an
audience of approximately 350 legal and child welfare professionals. Surgeon General Satcher
will address the conference on children's health issues on the evening of April 9.
Trinity Repertory Company Tribute to Senator Pell
You have been asked to record a video tribute to Senator Claiborne Pell in honor of this year's
Pell Awards for Excellence in the Arts in Providence, RI. The Pell Awards, established in 1997
to mark the retirement of Senator Pell, are presented to support the work of national and local
artists and to benefit the Tony-Award winning Trinity Repertory Company. This year's Pell
Awardees include: Beverly Sills, coloratura soprano; Gunther Schuller, Pulitzer Prize winning
composer; Eugene Lee, theater set and lighting designer; David Macaulay, writer/illustrator; and
Bunny Harvey, painter. The Pell Awards are intended to create support and pressure for the
continued existence of the National Endowment for the Arts. This year's Awards will be
presented on April 15, 1999 at the Providence Convention Center.
Women's Leadership Conference of the Americas
You have been asked to record a video for the Women's Leadership Conference of the Americas
second plenary meeting on April 15 and 16 in Washington. The WLCA is a network of some
100 distinguished women leaders from throughout the Western Hemisphere, co-sponsored by the
Inter-American Dialogue and the International Center for Research on Women. The WLCA is
designed to enhance the contribution of women in top leadership positions and promote policy
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changes that will improve opportunities for all women. The plenary will meet at the Doyle Hotel
in Dupont Circle and your video will be shown on the 15th in either the morning or the
afternoon.
Minnesota Beat the Odds
You have been asked to record a video for the Seventh Annual Minnesota Beat the Odds banquet
(you recorded videos for 1996 and 1997.) As you know, Beat the Odds focuses on children, the
struggles they face, and the tremendous determination with which they succeed. This year's
banquet will take place on April 15 at the Downtown Minneapolis Marriott City Center. Pat
Miles, a local news anchor is serving as emcee and will introduce your video at the end of the
evening.
American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery -- Tribute to Dr. Harold Ridley
You have been asked to record a video tribute to Dr. Harold Ridley who implanted the first
intraocular implant in 1949 in Great Britain. Your video will be shown at the annual meeting of
the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery (ASCRS) in Seattle, Washington on
April 10, 1999 in the afternoon at the Washington State Convention and Trade Center. An
estimated 3,000 people will be in the audience. ASCRS is an international, educational and
scientific organization whose nearly 8,000 member ophthalmologists specialize in cataract and
refractive surgery. Your video will be a part of a video montage tribute to Dr. Ridley. The
videotape will be introduced by David Apple, MD and will include remarks from: Cheri Booth,
Dr. Harold Ridley, Dr. Peter Choice, Dr. Eric Arnott, Dr. William Jorry, Dr. John Pierce, Dr.
Ken Hoffer and Dr. Robert Sinskey.
Fragile X Syndrome
You have been asked to record a video for Second Annual Mary Higgins Clark Gala to benefit
the FRAXA Research Foundation. The event will be held on April 19 at the Four Seasons Hotel
in Washington. Roger Mudd will emcee and radio talk host Diane Rehm will co-chair the event
with Board of Directors Vice President and parent, Mary Beth Busby. Jim and Sylvia Symington
will provide the entertainment. Fragile X is the most common inherited cause of mental
retardation. In addition to retardation this disease manifests itself in autistic-like behaviors, poor
eye contact, resistance to being touched or held, poor attention span, anxiety and some physical
characteristics as well. From Fraxile X's discovery in 1982 until 1994 organizations have
worked primarily to educate the public about Fragile X and to encourage early intervention with
different therapies. In 1994 three parents of children with Fragile X decided to form the FRAXA
Research Foundation to concentrate on furthering scientific research to find a cure and/or
treatment for this disease. Today the FRAXA Research Foundation has 25 chapters, it has
funded a million dollars of research in 1998 and it will fund more than $500,000 in 1999.
Birthday Greeting for Seamus Heaney
You have been asked to record a birthday greeting for the BBC Northern Ireland which is
marking Seamus Heaney's 60th birthday with programmes on the evening of April 11th (his
actual birthday is on April 13th.) The program will feature a film of extracts from archive
programmes written and presented by Mr. Heaney. These will be punctuated with "birthday
cards" from a selection of people touched and influenced by him including Bono of U2, a former
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April 9, 1999
PROMOTING GREATER INVESTMENT IN CHILD CARE
Date:
Monday, April 12
Time:
11:00 am - 11:55 am
Location:
Just Us Kids Child Care Center
Washington, D.C.
From:
Nicole Rabner and
Ruby Shamir
I.
PURPOSE
To promote greater investment in child care and make two announcements: (1) the release of a
new study by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) on ways to identify and
correct hidden hazards that may exist in child care; and (2) the launch the new outreach efforts of
Lifetime Television's child care awareness campaign "Caring for Kids."
II.
BACKGROUND
Overview
In the context of promoting the Administration's Child Care Initiative, this event is designed to
spotlight the need to empower parents with vital information and support to make the child care
choices that are right for them. The CPSC report will empower parents and caregivers with
critical information on child care safety and the Lifetime effort will help empower parents by
making sure their voices and struggles are heard. The event will include a brief tour of the Just
Us Kids Child Development Center on which you will learn about some of the hidden hazards
highlighted in the CPSC study, and a speaking program.
CPSC Report
The CPSC conducted a national study of the potential safety hazards of eight product areas --
cribs, soft bedding, playground surfacing, playground maintenance, safety gates, window blind
and curtain cords, clothing drawstrings, and recalled products in 220 child care centers
nationwide. Of the child care facilities studied, including private, non-profit, government-run
and home-based centers, two-thirds exhibited at least one safety hazard. These hazards are life-
threatening: CPSC notes that at least 56 children have died in child care settings, and that about
30,600 children ages 0-4 were treated in U.S. hospital emergency rooms in 1997 for injuries
received at child care settings.
To provide parents with the means to be aware of and correct these hazards, the CPSC developed
a new Child Care Safety Checklist for parents and caregivers to monitor the safety of their care
settings. The CPSC's recommendations include making sure that safety gates are used to keep
children away from potentially dangerous areas, especially stairs, and abandoning the use of
children's clothing with drawstrings around the hood and neck.
The CPSC will undertake an aggressive outreach program to get this vital information into the
hands of parents and caregivers nationwide. To help initiate this public information campaign,
the General Services Administration (GSA), which runs child care centers for federal employees,
will distribute the checklist to all of its centers in the United States. GSA has also pledged that
by Mother's Day 1999 it will provide all of its sponsored child care centers with computers and
Internet links which will provide immediate notice of all CPSC alerts and bulletins on products
that deal with children.
Lifetime Television "Caring for Kids" Campaign
You will help launch the second phase of Lifetime Television's "Caring for Kids" campaign
which is designed to provide parents with the information they need, and give them the
opportunity to have their voices heard. The campaign was inspired by the October 10, 1997
White House Conference on Child Care. During the first phase of the campaign, Lifetime began
forming partnerships with key child care experts and advocates. Lifetime also initiated an e-mail
campaign urging parents to share their child care stories with them. These efforts culminated in
the development of a documentary film of parents talking about their child care struggles and
needs which will air on Lifetime on April 20. Lifetime included footage from your Brooklyn,
NY roundtable discussion in the film.
In its second phase, Lifetime will work with a diverse group of partners, from child care
providers to law enforcement officials, to amplify the voices and struggles of parents and others
around the issue of child care. Lifetime will use its documentary to convene parents to talk about
their child care challenges and will continue to use the Internet as an organizing tool. Lifetime's
goal is to work to make child care a central issue in the 2000 elections and is gearing up to
produce voter guides, etc.
Child Care Action in the Senate
With the strong leadership of Senator Dodd, the Senate passed an amendment to the Republican
budget resolution increasing mandatory funding for the child care block grant by $5 billion over
five years and $12.5 billion over 10 years, off-set by a reduction in the tax cut. This action is a
significant demonstration of bipartisan support for boosting funding for child care subsidies,
which the President's budget does by $7.5 billion over five years. The amendment, sponsored by
Senators Dodd and Jeffords, also includes a non-binding provision stating that any child care tax
relief for child care (through, for example, expansion of the CDCTC), must benefit all working
families (i.e. by making the credit refundable) and assist stay-at-home parents who care for an
infant. Twelve Republicans Senators Abraham, Campbell, Chafee, Collins, Dewine, Frist,
Hatch, Jeffords, Roberts, Snowe, Specter, and Warner voted with all Democrats to pass the
amendment.
Just Us Kids Child Development Center
The Just Us Kids Child Development Center, a General Services Administration (GSA) child
care facility, is sponsored by the Department of Justice (DoJ) and provides care for children of
DoJ employees. Established in 1992, Just Us Kids is accredited by the National Association for
the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) and its staff qualifications and adult/child ratios
meet or exceed NAEYC criteria.
GSA child care centers serve 7,600 children in 112 centers nationwide. All child care workers
are screened through criminal background checks, and stringent health and safety standards for
facilities and furnishings are issued. Nearly 70 percent of GSA's centers are accredited by
national accrediting bodies (versus less than 10 percent in the private sector). As you know, in
March, 1998, the President issued an Executive Memorandum directing all federally sponsored
child care to be accredited by the year 2000.
III.
PARTICIPANTS
Speaking Program
- Attorney General Janet Reno
- Senator Christopher Dodd
- Ann Brown, Chairman, U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission
- Carole Black, CEO, Lifetime Television
- Cynthia Schnedar, Just Us Kids parent
- The First Lady
IV.
SEQUENCE OF EVENTS
Pam Simon, Director, Just Us Kids Child Development Center, will guide you on a very
brief tour of the center where Ann Brown, Chairman, CPSC, will show you examples of
potential hidden hazards. Attorney General Janet Reno, Deputy Attorney General Eric
Holder, Senator Christopher Dodd, David Barram, Administrator, GSA, and Carole
Black, CEO, Lifetime Television, will follow you on your tour.
Upon tour conclusion, you will proceed upstairs for the speaking program.
Attorney General Janet Reno will make welcoming remarks and introduce Senator Dodd.
Senator Dodd will make brief remarks and introduce Chairman Ann Brown.
Chairman Brown will make brief remarks and introduce Lifetime CEO Carole Black.
Carole Black will make brief remarks and introduce parent Cynthia Schnedar.
Cynthia Schnedar will make brief remarks and introduce you.
You will make remarks and close the program.
V.
PRESS PLAN
- Tour of the child care center's infant room will feature still photographers/WH Photo.
- Speaking program will be Open Press.
- GSA will send out a video news release of this event.
VI.
REMARKS
- Talking Points Attached.
VII. ATTACHMENTS
- Audience List
.
- CPSC Child Care Safety Checklist
- CPSC Report
- Lifetime Television Press Release
- Chairman Ann Brown Bio
- Administrator David Barram Bio
- Lifetime CEO Carole Black Bio
- Cynthia Schnedar Bio
FIRST LADY HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON
TALKING POINTS FOR CHILD CARE EVENT
"JUST US KIDS" CHILD CARE CENTER
April 12, 1999
Acknowledgments: Senator Chris Dodd; Janet Reno, Attorney General; Ann Brown,
Chairman of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission; Dave Barrum,
Administrator of the General Services Administration; Carole Black, President and CEO
of Lifetime Television; Pam Simon, Director of "Just Us Kids," a federally-sponsored
child care facility; and Cynthia Schneider, parent.
I am delighted to join all the parents and experts here today to talk about a critically
important issue -- how to empower parents and child care providers to provide the very
best care for our children. We know that millions of Americans, struggling to be both
good parents and good workers, rely on child care and after-school programs for part of
each day. And we know that we all have a stake in making sure that no parent has to
choose between the job they need and the children they love. But unfortunately not all
parents have child care choices like this wonderful center.
And so we are here to highlight two important new efforts designed to empower parents
to make the child care choices that are right for them and their families.
(1) New Study on Child Care Safety. I'm pleased that the Consumer Product Safety
Commission is today releasing new vital information for parents and child care providers
designed to keep our children safe, prevent injuries and even save lives. As many of us
who have "child-proofed" a home know, there are details that even the most thorough
person may overlook that could place children at risk of harm. On the basis of a random
study of child care facilities around the country, the Commission has produced a simple
Child Care Safety Checklist for parents and caregivers to identify and correct "hidden
hazards" in child care facilities -- and in the home.
Parents and child care providers want to do the very best for children and we hope that
this important new information will empower them to do just that. Parents and caregivers
can play a critical role in making sure child care settings are safe by asking the right
questions and looking for specific hazards. For instance, by making sure that window
blinds do not have looped cords, we can prevent children from strangulation. By making
sure that playground surfacing is safe -- with wood chips, sand, mulch, or other surface
covering -- we can protect against injuries from falls, especially head injuries. And, by
making sure that no soft bedding exists where babies sleep, we can prevent Sudden Infant
Death Syndrome and suffocation.
For 25 years, America's families have benefitted from the Consumer Product Safety
Commission's dedication to preventing injuries and saving lives. I'm very pleased that
the Commission will be mounting an aggressive campaign to get this checklist into the
hands of all caregivers so that they can ensure that their facilities are checked for any
possible hidden safety hazard. There will be other partners, as well. For instance, the
General Services Administration will be joining this effort by ensuring that the federally-
sponsored child care facilities in their supervision will have these materials right away.
Also, I am pleased to announce that by this Mother's Day, GSA will connect all of its
child care facilities to the Internet so that caregivers can receive up-to-the-minute safety
notices and communicate with parents.
(2) New Efforts From Lifetime Television. Another important way to empower parents
is to ensure that their voices are heard. Too often, discussions about child care challenges
take place around the water cooler or the kitchen table -- and aren't heard by the policy-
makers who can help them. I'm so grateful that Lifetime Television is bringing its
unique powers of amplification to this important issue -- to ensure that parents know that
they are not alone in their child care struggles and to encourage them to speak up and
speak out. Lifetime will be hosting a series of events around the country which will
engage parents in this important discussion. And I'm pleased to announce that the
General Services Administration will be partnering with Lifetime and use its child care
settings around the country as venues for dialogues on parents' child care struggles.
Greater Federal Investment in Child Care is Needed. But the President and I believe
that more must be done at the federal level to make child care better, safer and more
affordable for America's working families. That is why the President has included in his
budget request significant new investments in child care -- to help working families pay
for child care, build a good supply of after-school programs, improve the safety and
quality of care, and promote early learning.
Central to the President's plan is to provide more help to low-income working families
paying for child care. Today, these families spend up to 25 percent of their incomes on
child care, and assistance is scarce. According to the most recent figures, ten million
families are eligible for federal subsidies, yet only 1.25 million received support in 1997.
So, I am pleased that the Senate -- under the leadership of Senators Dodd and Jeffords
and with strong bipartisan support -- recently approved significant new funding for child
care subsidies to help low-income families pay for child care. I hope Congress takes this
critical step to give America's working families the child care support they need to thrive.
Parents Voices Must Be Heard. It is critical that as our nation's leaders discuss these
issues, they listen to the voices and the struggles of parents. When they do, we will
ensure that families have access to safe, affordable child care. Let us work together to
make this year that we address the pressing child care needs of America's working
families.
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FIRST LADY HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON
REMARKS TO JUST US KIDS CHILD CARE
APRIL 12, 1999
Thank you so much. Well, I am delighted to be part of this event. And I want to thank all the
children who are here who have been so good. And I promise that I will be quite fast and you
can get back to a lot more fun than just listening to all of us talk. But I did want to thank
everyone who is here and is a part of this model center and part of the announcement that we are
making this morning. Starting with our Attorney General and our Deputy Attorney General, I
want to thank Janet Reno and Eric Holder for their leadership. They understand that law
enforcement is a much broader concept than just understanding how to punish and apprehend
criminals but they do understand clearly, as Cynthia just said, that what we need to do is to build
up the kind of country we are by taking care of our children so that we try to prevent problems
before they occur. I want to thank Cynthia for her introduction and also her commitment to
government (inaudible) service.
I am also delighted that Tate Barren, the Administrator of General Services Administration, is
here. He's been a long time friend of mine and someone who cares deeply about the quality of
life within our government buildings, including taking care of our children. I want to thank Pam
Simmons, the Director of Just Us Kids, it took me awhile to get Just Us Kids. I finally got it, get
it justice? Pam has been involved with caring for the children of government employees for a
number of years and does an excellent job. And I particularly want to thank our two members of
Congress who are here, Congressman Ben Cardin from Maryland is here. And Ben is a long
time and stalwart supporter of the needs of families, particularly working families, which
includes child care, health care, and other necessities. And Senator Chris Dodd, who has been
the champion of child care legislation for many many years. And along with some colleagues of
his, they worked successfully to obtain some money earmarked for child care in the recent
budget resolution. And I am always glad to be anywhere with Ann Brown because I know that
when Ann shows up things happen. And I've been with Ann on other occasions in the last
several years and know first hand that her devotion to consumer product safety and particularly
to protecting children from faulty or inadequate consumer products is one that runs very deeply
with her.
We're here to highlight two important new efforts that are really designed to empower parents.
In all the work I have done about child care, for more than 25 years now, much of it comes
down to trying to create the issues in which parents can be more empowered to demand the kind
of child care, the quality, affordable child care that they need for their children. Because parents
could really do more to drive the child care market than they realize. And I think anything we
can do to empower parents and enable them to raise their voices will help us to do a better job on
that.
And that's really what you were hearing when Carol Blackman was talking about how to use the
media and how to use the new forms of media, like the Internet, in combination to make it
possible for parents to realize they have a lot to contribute. And I'll tell you more about that in a
minute. But first let me thank the Consumer Product Safety Commission for this vital study
which they completed, going into the child care centers seeing first hand. And as Ann often says
this is not a blame game. This is an information and empowerment effort. If you find
something wrong in a child care center that doesn't mean that people are deliberately doing it,
they just don't know the impact. And we here, in announcing this study and trying to convey as
broadly as possible, are trying to make it clear to parents and child care centers alike, here's
what you need to do to make your facility safer.
And it's really kind of simple. The Commission produced this child care safety check list for
parents and care givers to identify and correct hidden hazards in child care facilities and in the
home, anywhere children spend a lot of time. So you can go through this and you can see what
needs to be done about cribs or soft bedding or playground surfacing or maintenance or safety
gauges, the kinds of issues that you may not notice at first. I have to say that when Ann brought
to my attention clothing draw strings that was new to me. I can remember-I can't even count all
the times I have taken a draw string and tightened it up around a child's neck so the child
wouldn't get cold. And, you know, I didn't know until today that was something that could be a
hazard to children.
So I think we are really on the right track by getting this information out through the Consumer
Product Safety Commission under Ann's leadership. And I am also pleased that Ann is
partnering with other government agencies. For instance, GSA will be making sure that the
child care facilities under their supervision will have these materials right away so that I hope
every child care center that GSA is responsible for will get one of these (inaudible) put on the
website, right Ann, so that it can be accessed easily.
Also, I am pleased to announce that by Mother's Day, GSA will connect all of its child care
facilities to the Internet so that care givers can receive up to the minute safety notices and
communicate with parents. So I want to commend GSA under Dave Barren's leadership. I also
want to commend and thank Lifetime Television. Carole briefly outlined for you all that they
are doing on Lifetime and those 70 million plus viewers who turn into Lifetime are going to be
given the opportunity to learn more about what they can do to help create a bigger supply, a
more affordable supply of quality child care. I was listening to Carole when she was talking
about the documentary and perhaps, Congressman Cardin and Senator Dodd, we could get a
special showing on the Hill for staff members and Congressional members to actually see this.
Maybe if we show it several times so that people who didn't get it the first time could come
later. Because I think that the message does have to get across that this is a daily struggle for so
many parents.
Lifetime will be hosting a series of events around the country that will engage parents in this
discussion. And (inaudible) I'm pleased to announce that GSA will be partnering with Lifetime
and use its child care settings around the country as venues for these dialogues. This is a good
way for the private sector and the public sector to work together on behalf of an issue that is not
a partisan issue but one that is truly a part of who we are as Americans. But we know that in
spite of these good efforts from the Consumer Product Safety Commission, from Lifetime, from
GSA, in spite of the good programs that we have here of leadership and the Justice Department
and very qualified child care providers, like Pam Simmons, there is a need for greater federal
investment in child care.
And both the President and I believe strongly that more must be done at the federal level to
make child care better, safer and more affordable for America's working families. That is why
the President had included in his budget request significant new investments in child care to help
working families pay for child care, build a good supply of after school programs, improve the
safety and quality of care and promote early learning. Central to the President's plan is a
provision to help low income working families pay for child care. Just think of this, today these
families spend up to 25% of their income on child care. And there is just not enough subsidized
care and puts parents in a terrible dilemma, they need to work.
You know, it's one thing to say, "Well, maybe a parent could get by on one salary". But in
many instances that is not possible and in too many instances there is only one working parent in
the home. So we have to do more to subsidize good quality child care. According to recent
figures, 10 million families are eligible for federal subsidies yet only 1.25 million received
support in 1997. So this is why I am so pleased that the Senate on leadership, Senators Dodd
and Jeffers, and with strong bipartisan support, did recently approve significant new funding for
child care subsidies to help low income families pay for child care. I hope that the entire
Congress will take this step, it would make such a difference.
So let me again thank everyone who has enabled us to come to this beautiful to see first hand
what a quality center looks like, to see beautiful children who are active and energetic, curious
and to know that this is what we want for all the children of America. It does however come
down to what Carole Black said, it comes down to empowering parents and I want to thank
Carole for using the power of the media to get this message across. And also for linking that
message on the media to actual votes in elections. I hope all the Presidential candidates will
participate in Lifetime's forum. And I hope that the voting guides that Lifetime will create will
be used by parents across the country to make important decisions about who represents them in
Congress and who represents them in the state that they live SO that these people will be on
record as to whether or not they want to put their votes behind programs that will enable more
parents to feel the kind of security that Cynthia described to us, while they are at work doing
what they need to do for themselves, their families and I would argue for our country. Thank
you very much.
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AGENCY: CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY COMMISSION
SIC-MAJOR-GROUP: 04 - Trade
HEADLINE: FIRST LADY HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON JOINS CPSC TO RELEASE CHILD CARE
SAFETY CHECKLIST
CONTACT: (301) 504-0580 EXT. 1166
BODY:
WASHINGTON, D.C. - First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton joined U.S.
Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) Chairman Ann Brown today to kick
off a national campaign to alert parents and caregivers to safety hazards
in child care settings. Among the findings in a 1998 CPSC study of 220
child care settings across the United States, two-thirds had at least one
safety hazard. CPSC visited four types of licensed child care settings,
including federal, non-profit, for-profit and in-home. "Some hazards are
obvious, like playground surfacing that has worn thin," said Brown. "Other
hazards are hidden dangers that may not be obvious. Even the best parents
and child care providers may not be aware of these hidden hazards."
Many child care settings provide safe environments for young children.
Yet, CPSC knows of at least 56 children who have died in child care
settings since 1990. In 1997, about 31,000 children, 4 years old and
younger, were treated in U.S. hospital emergency rooms for injuries at
child care and school settings.
The CPSC study looked at eight product areas with potential safety
hazards in child care settings selected at random. Following are the
results:
38 percent had children wearing outerwear with drawstrings at the
neck. 27 percent did not keep the playground surfacing well-maintained. 24
percent did not have safe playground surfacing. 26 percent had loops on the
window blind cords. 19 percent had cribs containing soft bedding. 13
percent did not use child safety gates where necessary. 5 percent were
using products that had been recalled by CPSC.
To help remedy the situation, CPSC has prepared a Child Care Safety
Checklist for child care providers and parents to use. The checklist will
help caregivers become informed about hidden hazards by giving them a list
of things to look for to make their homes and child care settings safer for
children. Parents can use the checklist when choosing child care settings
and ensuring that the child care provider is vigilant in monitoring product
recall announcements and removing dangerous items.
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"The Child Care Safety Checklist will provide parents and child care
providers with the information they need to ensure that children are safe
in all child care settings," said First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton. "This
effort is part of the Administration's commitment to making child care
better, safer and more affordable for America's working families."
"The safety of the children in our centers has always been of
paramount importance," said David J. Barram, Administrator of the U.S.
General Services Administration (GSA), which administers 112 Federal
childcare centers nationwide. "To do our job even better, by Mother's Day
1999 we will have computers online in all of our centers. Then, at a
moment's notice, we can pass along safety alerts from CPSC. Those computers
also can be used to provide a network for all GSA childcare centers to
share best practices, ideas and information to improve all aspects of
Federal childcare."
CPSC is sending the checklist to many groups nationwide, including the
National Child Care Information Center, National Association for the
Education of Young Children, Head Start, state licensing authorities and
other providers and organizations that work with them. To get a free hard
copy of the checklist, send a postcard to Child Care Safety Checklist,
CPSC, Washington, DC 20207. "We want to get a checklist in the hands of
every caregiver," said Brown. "Child care providers should use this
checklist to go through their facility and make it a safer place for the
children in their care."
To get all CPSC recall information sent directly to you or your
facility by fax, send a fax with your name and fax number to (301) 504-
0399. To receive this information by e-mail, visit our e-mail subscription
list page, where there are detailed instructions (in brief, send an e-mail
message to listprocfcpsc.go and, in the message area, enter: Join CPSCINFO-
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission protects the public from
unreasonable risk of injury or death from 15,000 types of consumer products
under the agency's jurisdiction. To report a dangerous product or a product-
related injury and for information on CPSC's fax-on-demand service, call
CPSC's hotline at (800) 638-2772 or CPSC's teletypewriter at (800) 638-
8270. To order a press release through fax-on-demand, call (301) 504-0051
from the handset of your fax machine and enter the release number.
Consumers can obtain this release and recall information at CPSC's web site
at http://www.cpsc.gov. Consumers can report product hazards to
infofcpsc.gov.
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April 13, 1999
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HEADLINE: US CPSC
First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton joins CPSC to release child care safety
checklist
DATELINE: WASHINGTON, D.C.
BODY:
First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton joined U.S. Consumer Product Safety
Commission (CPSC) Chairman Ann Brown today to kick off a national campaign to
alert parents and caregivers to safety hazards in child care settings. Among the
findings in a 1998 CPSC study of 220 child care settings across the United
States, two-thirds had at least one safety hazard. CPSC visited four types of
licensed child care settings, including federal, non-profit, for-profit and
in-home.
"Some hazards are obvious, like playground surfacing that has worn thin, "
said Brown. "Other hazards are hidden dangers that may not be obvious. Even the
best parents and child care providers may not be aware of these hidden hazards. "
Many child care settings provide safe environments for young children. Yet,
CPSC knows of at least 56 children who have died in child care settings since
1990. In 1997, about 31,000 children, 4 years old and younger, were treated in
U.S. hospital emergency rooms for injuries at child care and school settings.
The CPSC study looked at eight product areas with potential safety hazards
in child care settings selected at random. Following are the results:
* 38 percent had children wearing outerwear with drawstrings at the neck.
*
27 percent did not keep the playground surfacing well-maintained. * 24 percent
did not have safe playground surfacing. * 26 percent had loops on the window
blind cords. * 19 percent had cribs containing soft bedding. * 13 percent did
not use child safety gates where necessary.
*
8 percent had cribs that did not
meet current safety standards. * 5 percent were using products that had been
recalled by CPSC.
To help remedy the situation, CPSC has prepared a Child Care Safety
Checklist for child care providers and parents to use. The checklist will help
caregivers become informed about hidden hazards by giving them a list of things
to look for to make their homes and child care settings safer for children.
Parents can use the checklist when choosing child care settings and ensuring
that the child care provider is vigilant in monitoring product recall
announcements and removing dangerous items.
"The Child Care Safety Checklist will provide parents and child care
providers with the information they need to ensure that children are safe in all
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child care settings," said First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton. "This effort is
part of the Administration's commitment to making child care better, safer and
more affordable for America's working families.'
"The safety of the children in our centers has always been of paramount
importance," said David J. Barram, Administrator of the U.S. General Services
Administration (GSA), which administers 112 Federal childcare centers
nationwide. "To do our job even better, by Mother's Day 1999 we will have
computers online in all of our centers. Then, at a moment's notice, we can pass
along safety alerts from CPSC. Those computers also can be used to provide a
network for all GSA childcare centers to share best practices, ideas and
information to improve all aspects of Federal childcare."
CPSC is sending the checklist to many groups nationwide, including the
National Child Care Information Center, National Association for the Education
of Young Children, Head Start, state licensing authorities and other providers
and organizations that work with them. To get your free copy of the checklist,
send a postcard to Child Care Safety Checklist, CPSC, Washington, DC 20207, or
access CPSC's website at www.cpsc.gov.
"We want to get a checklist in the hands of every caregiver," said Brown.
"Child care providers should use this checklist to go through their facility and
make it a safer place for the children in their care."
To get all CPSC recall information sent directly to you or your facility by
fax, send a fax with your name and fax number to (301) 504-0399.
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission protects the public from
unreasonable risks of injury or death from 15,000 types of consumer products
under the agency's jurisdiction. To report a dangerous product or a
product-related injury, call CPSC's hotline at (800) 638-2772 or CPSC's
teletypewriter at (800) 638-8270, or visit CPSC's web site at
http://www.cpsc.gov/talk.html.
CONTACT: Russ Rader
Tel: +1 301 504 0580 X 1166
LANGUAGE: English
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MONDAY APRIL 19, 1999
7:30 am
DEPART South Portico
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[drive time: 15 minutes]
MOTORCADE MANIFEST
LIMO: THE FIRST LADY
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TAFT, TANDEN, FULLER
7:45 am
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7:55 am
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[flight time: 45 minutes]
[meal: breakfast]
8:40 am
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8:50 am
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[002]
EN ROUTE U.S. Mission - United Nations
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9:25 am
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11th FLOOR GREETERS:
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9:30 am-
FOUNDATIONS MEETING
10:30 am
Ambassador's Conference Room
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MONDAY APRIL 19, 1999
10:30 am-
PRESS AVAILABILITY
10:45 am
12th Floor
U.S. Mission
United Nations
Hold: Permanent Representative's Office
Phone: 212/415-4404
Fax: 212/415-4303
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-The First Lady makes brief remarks.
-Julia Taft, State Department, makes brief
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-Rebecca Rimel, Pew Charitable Trust, makes brief
remarks.
-Possible q&a.
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-Wendy Paulson makes welcoming remarks and
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-David Burwell, President, Rails to Trails
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-Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney makes remarks
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-Senator Schumer makes remarks and introduces
Secretary Rodney Slater.
-Secretary Slater makes remarks and introduces the
First Lady.
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MONDAY APRIL 19, 1999
GREETER: Pat O'Connell, Former President, Women in
Communication
12:15 pm-
1999 MATRIX AWARDS LUNCHEON
1:50 pm
The Ballroom
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-The First Lady is announced onto the dais and
proceeds to her seat.
-Lunch is served.
-Martha Nelson, emcee, introduces Geraldine
Laybourne.
-Geraldine Laybourne presents award to Esther
Dyson.
-Esther Dyson makes brief acceptance remarks.
-Martha Nelson introduces Mike Nichols.
-Mike Nichols presents award to Meryl Streep.
-Meryl Streep makes brief acceptance remarks.
-Martha Nelson introduces Joan Hamburg.
-Joan Hamburg presents award to Dorothy Kalins.
-Dorothy Kalins makes brief acceptance remarks.
-Martha Nelson introduces HUD Secretary Andrew
Cuomo.
-Secretary Andrew Cuomo presents award to Debbie
Krenek.
-Debbie Krenek makes brief acceptance remarks.
-Martha Nelson introduces Nora Ephron.
-Nora Ephron presents award to Nan Talese.
-Nan Talese makes brief acceptance remarks.
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-Donna Hanover presents award to Linda Srere.
-Linda Srere makes brief acceptance remarks.
-Martha Nelson introduces Jack Welch.
-Jack Welch presents award to Joyce Hergenhan.
-Joyce Hergenhan makes brief acceptance remarks.
-Martha Neslon introduces the First Lady.
-The First Lady presents award to Katie Couric,
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MONDAY APRIL 19, 1999
3:20 pm
President's Office
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-Offstage announcement of the First Lady and
speaking participants.
-Teachers' College President Arthur Levine
introduces the Margaret Douglas Choir.
-Choir performs.
-President Levine introduces Dr. Jill Iscol.
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-Dr. Jill Iscol makes remarks and introduces the
First Lady.
SCHEDULE FOR HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON
MONDAY APRIL 19, 1999
-The First Lady makes remarks.
-Jill Iscol presents a gift to the First Lady.
-The First Lady has the option of working a
ropeline right to left as she departs.
PARTICIPANTS: 600 guests
CONTACT: Amanda Wasson 212/678-3816
4:25 pm
DEPART Teachers' College - Columbia University
EN ROUTE The Waldorf Astoria
[drive time: 30 minutes]
(b)(7)e
4:55 pm
ARRIVE The Waldorf Astoria
5:00 pm-
DOWN TIME
6:00 pm
6:00 pm
DEPART The Waldorf Astoria
EN ROUTE The Mark
[drive time: 15 minutes]
(b)(7)e
6:15 pm
ARRIVE The Mark
GREETER:
Dr. Tom Schutte, President, The Pratt Institute
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6:20 pm-
MEET & GREET
6:25 pm
Drawing Room
The Mark
SCHEDULE FOR HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON
MONDAY APRIL 19, 1999
Attire: Business
Hold: n/a
CLOSED PRESS/WH PHOTO
PARTICIPANTS: 9 guests
6:20 pm-
THE BLACK ALUMNI OF PRATT SCHOLARSHIP FUND 8ᵀᴴ
6:35 pm
ANNUAL "CELEBRATION OF THE CREATIVE SPIRIT AWARD"
BENEFIT DINNER
The Mark Suite
The Mark
East 77th Street
Attire: Business
Hold: n/a
OPEN PRESS
FORMAT:
-Dr. Tom Schutte, President, The Pratt Institute,
introduces the First Lady.
-The First Lady makes brief remarks recognizing
awardees and presents award to Townsend Wolfe.
-A photo is taken of the First Lady with awardess.
-The First Lady has the option of working a
ropeline on departure.
PARTICIPANTS: 150 guests
CONTACT: Dwight Johnson 718/636-3472
6:40 pm
DEPART The Mark
EN ROUTE 2 East 79th Street
[drive time: 10 minutes]
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6:50 pm
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6:55 pm-
MEET & GREET
7:00 pm
Parlor
Ukrainian Institute of America
April 16, 1999
DROP BY AT JEWISH CHILD CARE ASSOCIATION
175th ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION
Date:
Monday, April 19
Time:
9:10 pm - 9:35 pm
Location:
Chipriani Wall Street
New York, N.Y.
From:
Ruby Shamir
I.
PURPOSE
To participate in the 175th anniversary celebration of the Jewish Child Care Association (JCCA).
II.
BACKGROUND
JCCA Today
The JCCA is a comprehensive, multi-cultural, child and family service agency with a mission of
strengthening families and helping them reunite quickly when a separation has been necessary.
JCCA's programs and facilities are located in many New York City communities and in
Westchester County. The organization's continuum of care consists of a wide array of non-
sectarian, publicly funded programs for the community at large, including adoption services,
early childhood programs, educational programs, family development programs, foster home
care, residential treatment centers and outpatient mental health and preventive services.
Additionally, the JCCA operates programs tailored specifically for the Jewish community
including family day care -- largely operated within the immigrant Russian community -- group
day care, and independent adoption. The JCCA serves about 9,000 children and families
members annually, and there are approximately 1,300 children in the JCCA's care each day.
The JCCA has developed a superb record of helping families reunite, and of moving children
quickly toward adoption -- its adoption record exceeds the standard set by the city of New York.
It has also developed an independent living program for all children older than seven who are in
foster care. The JCCA funds practice-based research and quality assurance programs so that it
can learn more about what works and its medical department works with staff and families to
help infants at risk.
In the 1960s, the JCCA became publicly funded and mostly non-sectarian. It receives a majority
of its funds from the City and State of New York. Approximately 6.5% of its budget consists of
philanthropic assistance. The JCCA receives contributions from the New York Times Neediest
Cases fund and the New York Times publishes articles every few weeks about a JCCA success
story.
History of JCCA
In 1940, 19 major Jewish child welfare organizations merged under the umbrella of the JCCA.
However, JCCA history dates back to 1822 when a parent of today's JCCA, the Hebrew
Benevolent Society, was established as a private, sectarian organization to provide services for
poor Jewish people in need, including widows, veterans and children. Forty years later,
orphanages specifically for children were created as people came to realize that children needed
special attention. These institutions were large dormitories that housed as many as 1200
orphaned, half-orphaned and other destitute children -- they often held 100 beds in a single large
room. Art Buchwald, a child of the Hebrew Orphan Asylum who will attend the event, described
the architecture of his orphanage as "early Sing Sing."
In the early 1900s, the JCCA developed the more home-like Pleasantville Cottage School, a
group living situation in the country to replace the big orphanages. Over time, as attitudes
towards child rearing shifted and social needs changed, the JCCA embraced quality foster care
and adoption programs as well as family child care, forming an extensive and progressive
approach to caring for children and supporting families that has endured.
Evening Program
Before you arrive, the evening's program will feature a number of speakers including: Barbara
Mann and Arthur Maslow, chairs of the event; Joyce Kramer, President of the Board of Trustees
of the JCCA; Paul Gitelson, Executive Vice President of JCCA; and the Honorable Peter
Vallone, New York City Council President. The honorees of the evening, Stephen Sokoloff, a
former JCCA president, and Alan Tishman, JCCA Trustee and President of Tishman
Management and Leasing Corporation, will both speak. Afterwards, three JCCA alumni will
tell their personal stories.
You will arrive at the end of the dinner program. As you are introduced by Ms. Kramer, Zavia
Warren, a 12 year old adopted girl, will present to you a JCCA certificate honoring your
continued commitment to the welfare of children. This event is not a fundraiser and the audience
will consist of JCCA trustees, their guests, executive staff, city officials and as many as 20 recent
and historic alumni.
III.
PARTICIPANTS
Speaking Program
- Joyce Kramer, President of the Board of Trustees of the JCCA
- The First Lady
IV.
SEQUENCE OF EVENTS
- Joyce Kramer, President of the JCCA, announces you into the room.
- Ms. Kramer makes very brief introductory remarks.
- Zavia Warren, a 12 year old adopted girl, presents you with a certificate of honor.
- You will make remarks and close the program.
V.
PRESS PLAN
- Open Press.
VI. REMARKS
- Talking Points Attached.
VII. ATTACHMENTS
- Meet and Greet List
- Bios of Stephen Sokoloff and Alan Tishman, event honorees
- New York Times story on the JCCA
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10TH STORY of Level 1 printed in FULL format.
Copyright 1999 The New York Times Company
The New York Times
February 11, 1999, Thursday, Late Edition - Final
SECTION: Section B; Page 4; Column 1; Metropolitan Desk
LENGTH: 947 words
HEADLINE: The Neediest Cases;
Regaining a Sense of Security, and a Sense of Pride
BYLINE: By MARTIN STOLZ
BODY:
Alide P. has a gentle way of speaking and a beautiful lilting inflection when
she is at ease. But whenever she gets upset, she says, her English heads south,
lost in tears and Haitian Creole.
One day in 1997, she could not speak at all, after a city worker told her
over the phone that she and her daughter were going to lose their welfare
benefits.
Because Alide could not explain her situation, she hung up the phone
believing the worst would happen.
Caught in a sense of utter powerlessness, aggravated perhaps by a history of
mistreatment, Alide began anticipating more dreadful scenarios. She would not be
able to feed her 8-year-old daughter, Nadia. The authorities would take the
child away from her. Her life would be worthless.
At that point, Alide became desperate. She would kill herself, she thought.
And she would have to kill Nadia, too, rather than leave her to fend for
herself.
Carefully, Alide crafted a plan; weeping, she entered it in her journal.
But Alide's daughter, who is mildly retarded, sensed her distress. She took
to school the journal that seemed to be making her mother so unhappy. There, she
showed it to her teacher.
A mobile crisis unit immediately descended on Alide's home and referred her
to a place where she could get help: the Jewish Child Care Association, an
affiliate of the UJA-Federation of New York, one of seven charities supported by
The New York Times Neediest Cases Fund.
In the last year, with the agency's help, Alide has put a stop to thedownward
trend of her life. She and Nadia now have a steady sense of security.
Alide's life had taken several bad turns since she moved to New York from
Haiti in 1982. Two years after her arrival, when she was 22, she became
pregnant. Her father, who was also her landlord, was angry. He evicted her from
the basement apartment of his Brooklyn apartment building.
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After she had the baby, a boy, she was allowed to sleep in the unheated
hallway of her father's building. The boy died of pneumonia before he was 2.
"I think he was cold," she said. "I cried every day. I passed four years
crying."
Alide and the father of her child married and had another child, Nadia, in
1989.
Alide was delighted with the little girl, but had morbid fears that she would
lose that child, too.
But a threat came from another direction: her husband. Their marriage
deteriorated from its roots as a childhood romance in Haiti to a torrent of
violent abuse, and Alide went into hiding in 1994.
When she emerged a year later, Alide found a studio apartment in Flatbush to
share with her daughter. They relied on public assistance and Medicaid, not
quite making ends meet.
Then came a call to the Administration for Children's Services, one day when
Alide and Nadia had an appointment there but were delayed at Nadia's school. Her
regular case worker was out, so Alide spoke with a supervisor and was stunned
when she was told that her benefits would be taken away.
"I was mad," Alide explained. "I start crying instead of talking. Every time
I start to cry, I lose my English. I can't speak."
With her nerves already on edge, Alide felt crushed when a letter arrived
from her daughter's public school about uniforms, a new school policy.
She had no money but a load of pride, and her inability to provide the
uniform for Nadia pushed Alide over the edge of hopelessness.
She prepared a note for the school, explaining that Nadia would not have a
uniform for a while. But in a journal, Alide wrote her darker thoughts.
"I started writing everything down, my feelings," she said. "I was crying and
crying. My daughter saw me writing, and she said, 'Mommy, why are you crying?' "
The next day, Nadia took the notebook to school and her mother finally got
some help.
A case worker from the Jewish Child Care Association successfully lobbied to
restore Alide's welfare benefits, emergency funds for a school uniform and a
seven-month extension of Medicaid.
After Alide finished Fresh Start, a three-month job-training program offered
by the city, she was hired to work in a midtown hotel nearly a year ago. She now
has private insurance, is off Medicaid and public assistance and is the proud
owner of a plaque recognizing her as the hotel's "Employee of the Month" for
December. "I'm a housekeeper," she said, "a great one."
HOW TO HELP
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Checks payable to The New York Times Neediest Cases Fund should be sent to P.O.
Box 5193, General Post Office, New York, N.Y. 10087, or any of these
organizations:
BROOKLYN BUREAU OF COMMUNITY SERVICE
285 Schermerhorn Street, Brooklyn, N.Y. 11217.
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF NEW YORK
1011 First Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10022.
CATHOLIC CHARITIES, DIOCESE OF BROOKLYN AND QUEENS
191 Joralemon Street, Brooklyn, N.Y. 11201.
CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY
105 East 22d Street, New York, N.Y. 10010.
COMMUNITY SERVICE SOCIETY OF NEW YORK
105 East 22d Street, New York, N.Y. 10010.
FEDERATION OF PROTESTANT WELFARE AGENCIES
281 Park Avenue South, New York, N.Y. 10010.
UJA-FEDERATION OF NEW YORK
Church Street Station, P.O. Box 4100, New York, N.Y. 10261-4100
No agents or solicitors are authorized to seek contributions for The New York
Times Neediest Cases Fund.
The Times pays the fund's expenses, so all contributions go directly to the
charities, which use them to provide services and cash assistance to the poor.
Contributions to the fund are deductible on Federal, state and city income taxes
to the extent permitted by law.
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After a Troubled Start, a Teen-Ager Gets a Nudge Toward College
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found himself placed on restriction
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meager daily recreation time the
friend Burnell. The last time he
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"I got tired of getting in trouble,"
on charges of drug possession.
should be sent to P.O. Box 5193,
nue South, New York, N.Y. 10010.
Nigem said. "I realized that if I
They met at the Pleasantville Res-
age, Nigem said.
General Post Office, New York,
UJA-FEDERATION OF NEW YORK
didn't get with their system, I'd even-
idential Treatment Center in West-
"He was all straight and uptight at
N.Y. 10087, or any of these
Church Street Station, P.O. Box
tually be kicked out and end up back
chester County,
Pleasantville," he recalled. But
organizations:
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in my old life. But there were things
N.Y., when both
once he was back in the city, he
BROOKLYN BUREAU OF COMMUNI-
there I didn't want to give up."
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were 14. They had
started buying marijuana with his
TY SERVICE 285 Schermerhorn
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Basketball was one of them. Play-
Neediest
been sent there by
allowance and hanging with. gang-
Street, Brooklyn, N.Y. 11217. 1
authorized to seek contributions
ing on the team at the treatment
the Administra-
ster types in the neighborhood."
for The New York Times Neediest
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center helped him focus his energies
tion for Children's
Nigem did not follow that path. He
Cases Fund.
DIOCESE OF NEW YORK 1011 First
in a positive direction, he said. To-
Services - New
used his experiences at Pleasant-
Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10022.
The Times pays the fund's
day, he continues to play as a guard
York City's child
ville, two group homes and a youth
expenses, so all contributions go
on the team at the State University of
residence to escape the world of
CATHOLIC CHARITIES, DIOCESE OF
welfare agency - after causing dis-
drugs and violence that his parents
BROOKLYN AND QUEENS
directly to the charities, which
New York at Old Westbury, where he
ciplinary problems while in foster
inhabited.
191 Joralemon Street, Brooklyn,
use them to provide services and
just completed his first semester.
care: After a year at Pleasantville,
All those temporary homes for
N.Y. 11201.
cash assistance to the poor.
Last March, Nigem moved to the
they moved on to a group home in the
Youth Residence Center on the Up-
teen-agers with troubled back-
CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY 105 East
Contributions to the fund are
Midwood section of Brooklyn.
per East Side of Manhattan. Nigem
grounds are run by the Jewish Child
22d Street, New York, N.Y. 10010.
deductible on Federal, state and
"That place. was probably the
credits the atmosphere there with
Care Association, an affiliate of the
city income taxes to the extent
nicest place I'd lived," Nigem, who is
UJA-Federation of New York, one of
COMMUNITY SERVICE SOCIETY OF
helping him resist the temptations to
NEW YORK 105 East 22d Street,
permitted by law.
10W 18, said of the group home. "The
drink and use drugs when he is out on
the seven local charities supported
urniture, the floors, the beds, the
by The New. York Times Neediest
New York, N.Y. 10010.
To delay may mean to forget.
his own.
food - it was all beautiful."
The center is meant to give young
Cases Fund.
For Nigem, who came to the atten-
adults, ages 16 to 21, a taste of the
Nigem's story is a familiar one at
ion of Children's Services after his
freedom they will know as adults,
the group homes and residential cen-
ship foster care. But Nigem's aunt
cousins.
nother left him home alone without
said Richard Johnson, its director.
ters. He does not remember who
lived in a tiny two-bedroom apart-
By the time Nigem turned 14, his
The residents are allowed to come
ood or electricity at age 7, moving to
found him in the dark apartment
ment in the Brownsville section of
aunt had lost control of him, and she
he Pleasantville center was a turn-
and go as they please as long as they
near Yankee Stadium when he was 7.
Brooklyn and had three children of
contacted Children's Services.
ng point. After. an initial period of
are drug-free and employed or in
But he does know that his mother,
her own. In 1990, two. more cousins
When Nigem arrived at Pleasant-
school.
rebellion, he decided that he would be
who was addicted to crack cocaine,
moved in after another aunt began
ville, he hated it: the strict curfews
"The main goal of all of our cen-
letter off if he behaved, and he con-
had a history of neglecting him. And
using drugs.
and a daily routine that was
ters and group homes, is to teach the
inued in that mind-set after he
he knows that his father had been in
Nigem said the situation made it
crammed from the time he woke up
kids how to move on in life," Mr.
noved to the group home.
and out of jail since Nigem was 4
easy for him to hang out late into the
until he went to bed, with chores,
Johnson said. "Unfortunately, we
But Burnell drifted back into the
months old.
night with friends drinking and us-
counseling and classes. He talked
only have the money to help a small
ife of crime and drugs that they had
Nigem was sent to live with his
ing drugs. He also developed a vio-
back to the staff and on occasion was
percentage of those who need help,
oth been exposed to from an early
aunt in an arrangement called kin-
lent temper and had fights with his
caught in the girls' rooms, which was
like Nigem did."
The New York Times
Sec. 1998
Jewish Child Care Association 120 Wall Street NYC, NY 10005 212 425 3333 Fax 212 425 9397
Talking Points for JCCA's 175th Anniversary Celebration
April 19, 1999
JCCA is committed to the Jewish tradition of Tikkun Olam, the
obligation of every person to "repair the world" offering help to people
who need it-both Jews and non-Jews.
There will be JCCA alumni at the event, among them: a former foster
child-a young Haitian immigrant woman-who just graduated from
Harvard Medical School; men and women in their 80s-a former
burlesque queen, an attorney, etc.: a young man who turned 21 just a
few days ago and "aged out."
JCCA's story is the history of child welfare.
JOCA's history of caring for children is older than the City of New York.
(175 years compared to 100)
1820's Hebrew Benevolent Society established to provide services for
poor Jewish people-widows, veterans and children included as part of
the undifferentiated "needy."
Slowly, people came to realize that children need special attention.
JCCA's first orphanages were established in the 1860's.
They were huge institutions-Brooklyn Hebrew Orphan Asylum housed
1200 children, Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society had 1000. Children
slept in dormitories-100 beds in rows.
Early 1900s-realization that a more homelike environment was better
for kids. Pleasantville Cottage School was built in the country to replace
a giant orphanage.
By 1920, children were being placed in foster homes as a more "normal"
environment than even the best institution.
Jewish Child Care Association . 120 Wall Street NYC, NY 10005 212 425 3333 Fax 212 425 9397
BUT, even back then most orphans were not orphans, they had families,
but the families could not take care of them.
Programs to support families so children could stay home were
established including outpatient clinics and, in the 1940s, the first Family
Day Care program in NY State.
Today, JCCA works to see that every child has a permanent home-
usually with his or her own family-and when that is not possible, with a
new family through adoption. We have regularly exceeded the City's
adoption goal for placing foster children with adoptive families.
Our commitment is to work collaboratively with families SO that they
can build on their strengths and keep their children safe and at home.
JCCA is proud of:
its highly professional, well-trained staff:
its superb record of helping families reunite;
its ability to move children quickly toward adoption when that is the
decision.
JCCA has programs for the community at large, as well as programs
specifically for the Jewish community.
ELINOR GUGGENHEIMER
1095 Park Avenue
New York N.Y. 10128
March 18, 1999
Dear Hillary:
I'm so sorry that I won't be with you today. I'm so grateful that you
thought of me, and I did want to come to gteat - more than you can
imaginel -but as you know Randy is really not well and I hate being
away from him at all now. These have been rather sad times for us.
Randy has undergone a lot of radiation which has left him pretty weak
and very tired I stay home all the time but we do have a lot of friends
who visit and I've even had a few business meetings at the house
've been orking with Dr. Fomtana, Chief of the Foundling Hospital, and
with the Catholc hierarchy on a project to build a big center and a big
program to deal with abandoned, abused and neglected children' R
They' met He and his colleagues have met at my house. Also I' ve been
helping Alan Tishman with plans for celebrating the one hundred and
fiftieth anniversary of the Jewish Child Care Association on April
nineteenth. I undertand you have agreed to be the Honorary Chair
and so I'm hoping you will actually be at the dinner, in which case I
can get a glimpse of you. Meanwhile I thank you so much for calling.
It meant a lot to Randy. and to me. If you have time in your busy
schedule please say a little prayer for us. I am convunced that God
listens to you! And so do all the women here in New York whenever we
have a chance.
still waiting for the shoe to drop! - I'm a good campaigner when I
believe in a candidate. Perhaps I can cover the country fair circuit in
upstate New York. --With affection
Elly
FIRST LADY HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON
TALKING POINTS FOR JEWISH CHILD CARE ASSOCIATION EVENT
NEW YORK, NY
April 19, 1999
Acknowledgments: Joyce Kramer, JCCA President; Peter Vallone, New York City
Council President; Paul Gitelson, JCCA Executive Vice President; Stephen Sokoloff,
Event Honoree; Alan Tishman, Event Honoree; Judith Stern Peck, United Jewish Appeal
Board Chair; Stephen Solender, United Jewish Appeal Executive Vice President; Arthur
Maslow, Event Chair; Barbara Mann, Event Chair; Art Buchwald, writer and humorist.
I am delighted to join you here tonight to celebrate the 175th anniversary of this pioneer
child welfare organization. It is humbling to speak before an organization that has served
the needs of children and families in New York for so many years. It is also a great honor
to be in the presence of Jewish Child Care Association alumni of all ages. These men and
women are living proof that with the care, attention, love and dedication provided by
organizations like the JCCA, all children can grow to reach their full potential.
JCCA's history not only parallels the history of child welfare in America, it is the history
of child welfare in America. In the 1820's, the JCCA's parent organizations provided
private, sectarian services for New York's needy Jewish population, and over time, the
JCCA has worked to meet the needs of the larger community, caring for children and
supporting families through child care, foster care and adoption programs.
Today, the JCCA is a comprehensive child and family service agency with a wide array
of non-sectarian, publicly funded programs for the community at large, as well as
programs specifically for the Jewish community. With philanthropic assistance, the
JCCA has developed a superb record of strengthening families and finding permanent
homes for children in foster care.
The ideology that fueled the Jewish community's response to its most destitute 175 years
ago went beyond simply reacting to a visible need. It was the manifestation of a belief
system and moral code that requires all to actively seek out the needy and serve them. In
Judaism, the very notion of Tzedakah [TZEH-DAH-KUH] -- good will and philanthropy
-- is linked linguistically and morally to the concept of justice or Tzedek [TZEH-DEK] in
the doctrine of the Bible.
Those of us who care about the well-being of our nation's children have a lot to be proud
of right now. Under the President's leadership, we provided a tax credit for families who
adopt and we've worked to eliminate discrimination and delays in adoption based on race
and ethnicity. And in 1997, the President signed into law the Adoption and Safe Families
Act --a landmark piece of legislation that holds out the promise that we can make the
foster care system work better for the children it serves, and secure permanent placements
for children across our country.
But, of course, achieving the President's goal of doubling the number of adoptions by the
year 2002 will take all of our help. That is why organizations like this one are so
important. The JCCA works to see that all children have permanent homes -- with their
families when that is possible, and through adoption when it is not. Because of its tireless
efforts, the JCCA boasts an adoption record that exceeds New York City's goals for
moving children from foster care to permanent homes.
A famously ambiguous passage in the Bible says "Tzedakah [TZEH-DAH-KUH] will
save from death," perhaps meaning that charity and giving will save the lives of people in
need, as well as prolong and enrich the lives of the givers.
The traditions of service and good will are obviously sacred to the JCCA, and I thank you
for all you have done to enrich our society. I wish you continued success, and strength
for another 175 years and beyond. Thank you.
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HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON
JEWISH CHILD CARE ASSOCIATION
APRIL 19, 1999
Thank you very much. You could not have said anything that means more to me than
"you save one child you save the world." A belief that I think all of us this evening here
together share. I'm delighted to join all of you to celebrate the 175th anniversary of this pioneer
child welfare organization. It is an extraordinary honor for me to be able to speak before all of
you who support an organization that has served the needs of children and families in New York
for so many generations. And I know that there are many Jewish Child Care Association
Alumni of all ages, two of whom we have just seen. These men and women and boys and girls
are living proof that with the care, attention, love, and dedication provided by an organization
like yours, children can indeed live to fulfill their own god-given potential.
I want to thank Joyce Kramer, the President of the Board of JCCA, Steven ???? one of
the honorees, and Alan ????, also an honoree. And both of these gentlemen are being honored
for their many contributions and support of the work and the cause that JCCA represents. I also
want to recognize and thank the chairs of this event: Barbara Mann and Arthur Maslow; and I
want to recognize Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney??, who is here with us.
I also saw an old friend of mine who made the decision to return home to New York after
having lived in Washington for many years, who reminded me that he too is an alumnus of
JCCA and that is the ??inenidable?? Art Bookwald who is here this evening.
You know JCCA's history parallels the history of child welfare in America. It is
sometimes hard to remember that 200 years or so ago, we didn't have much of a sense of
organized child welfare. And it wasn't until there were pioneers like JCCA who demonstrated
that indeed we as members of the community of adults and caring people, had an obligation and
an opportunity to help pick up where families were broken or destroyed by death or separation,
disease or any of the other problems that were particularly prevalent back at the beginning of the
last century.
In the 1820s, the JCCA's parent organizations provided private, sectarian services for
New York's needy Jewish population. And over time, the mission of JCCA has expanded to
meet the needs of the larger community. Caring for children and supporting families through
child care, foster care, and adoption. Today, as you well know, this organization is a
comprehensive child and family service agency--that provides a wide array of services. And I
have noticed as I've followed your work, as I've read reports of what you've accomplished—
that you've been on the cutting edge of many of the changes and reforms in the caring for
children that we have seen occur in the last several decades. With philanthropic assistance,
you've developed a superb record of strengthening families and finding permanent homes for
children, who otherwise would languish in foster care. I particularly want to thank you for that.
It has been one of the causes nearest and dearest to my heart, and that my husband has worked
on to change the rules and regulations governing the placement of children in foster care to make
it easier for children to be released for adoption into a permanent loving home or returned to the
home from which they came.
We've made a lot of progress in the last few years providing a tax credit for families that
adopt, working to eliminate discrimination and delays in adoption based on race and ethnicity.
And in 1997, thanks to the JCCA, and other involved organizations and individuals we were able
to see the President sign into law, the Adoption and Safe Families Act. A land mark piece of
legislation that holds out the promise that we can make the foster care system work better for the
children it serves and secure those permanent homes for so many more children. Achieving the
goal, the President said, of doubling the number of adoptions by the year 2002-will really take
everyone's efforts. And that's why you are so important and what you are doing to see that
children do have permanent homes is making such a difference.
JCCA boasts an adoption record that exceeds New York City's goals for moving children
from foster care to permanent homes. And I want to congratulate the staff, and the volunteers,
and the contributors to JCCA for doing so much to give children the love and permanence they
deserve.
The traditions of service and goodwill and love for children are obvious when one looks
at the record of the JCCA. I thank you for what you have done for children and families for 175
years, I thank you for what you are doing now and will do in the future. Our children need as
many champions as they can have. Luckily for most of us, those champions are mothers or
fathers or grandparents or family members who we are connected to by birth and blood and
environment and circumstance. But when that is not possible for a child, then I believe it does
take the community. It does take other caring adults who will step in, hold out their arms, and
give that child a chance. You've be doing it and I know you will continue and you will begin,
once again, to change, reform, and transform, the child welfare system as you have. So that it
meet the needs of children in the century to come.
Congratulations and thank you for what you have done for our children.
Thank you all very much.
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HEADLINE: It Takes An Agency: Jewish Child Care Association celebrates 175 years of putting
children first.
BYLINE: Mendelsohn, Martha
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It Takes An Agency: Jewish Child Care Association celebrates 175 years of putting children first.
MARTHA MENDELSOHN
JEWISH WEEK CORRESPONDENT
Jack Barschi was angry when he arrived at the Pleasantville Cottage School, a Jewish Child Care
Agency residence, in 1947. The 11-year-old had been shuttled between institutions since the age of 4,
after his father was incapacitated in a car accident and his mother, who worked in a laundry, could no
longer care for him and his younger brother. "I got into trouble a lot," recalls Barschi, who now heads
the English department at the Fashion Institute of Technology.
"Don't worry," a Pleasantville therapist told him, "We won't throw you out." That guarantee "is what
made the place more like a home." Barschi and his brother Stan stayed for four years, before going to
live with a foster family, and eventually with their own relatives.
Jack Barschi and Stan Barshay, a retired senior executive of American Home Products and JCCA
trustee, will join 500 JCCA alumni and supporters to celebrate the 175th anniversary of the Jewish
Child Care Association at Cipriani Wall Street on April 19.
First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, the event's honorary chairperson, is scheduled to speak at the
dinner. The event, which will honor business leaders Stephen Sokoloff and Alan Tishman, promises to
match the glitter of annual dinners held in the 1840s by the JCCA's forerunner, the Hebrew Benevolent
Society. The posh, all-male affairs were de rigueur occasions for New York's Jewish bluebloods and
gentile politicians.
JCCA's agenda would seem to fit Clinton's priorities. In pioneering the movement from orphanages to
"cottage" institutions to foster homes to family and group day care, the agency played a major role in
shaping the principles of present-day child care.
JCCA, a beneficiary agency of UJA-Federation and a member agency of The United Way, is a
comprehensive, multicultural child and family service organization. It has served people of all
backgrounds since 1967, and currently helps thousands of people annually at its foster homes, residential
treatment and diagnostic centers. Recognizing that its work with families and children makes it an ideal
agent for Jewish continuity, the association is sharpening its Jewish focus.
"We are grounded in the Jewish tradition, which includes helping all people," says Joyce Kramer,
JCCA's president, "but we are finding ways to continue our commitment to the Jewish community."
JCCA is a partner in the Ashalim project, which helps youths at risk in Israel. To expand its Jewish
programs in the metropolitan area, the agency has hired Debby Perelmuter, a former associate director of
Hillel-New York, as director of Jewish programs and services.
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"The growth of our Jewish adoption and day care programs represents a re-emphasis on our Jewish roots
and a stake in the future," says Paul Gitelson, executive vice president of JCCA.
Almost two centuries ago, members of Manhattan's Congregation Shearith Israel, observed a need for
philanthropic institutions other than the synagogue. In 1822, they founded the Hebrew Benevolent
Society to keep poor, widowed, and orphaned Jews out of Christian hospitals and almshouses. In the
1860s, Joseph Seligman, New York's leading banker, led a campaign to raise funds for the city's first
Jewish orphanage, the Hebrew Orphan Asylum on West 29th Street. (Later, it moved to a two-block site
on Amsterdam Avenue between 136th and 138th streets.) Two decades later, Priscilla Joachimsen, the
founder of one of New York's first day care shelters for children of indigent parents, became the first
president of the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society, a home for destitute children sent by the courts.
In 1910, HOA orphan Henry Bauer complained about the daily routine Hebrew lessons and school,
with almost no play reports Jacqueline Bernard in her book, "The Children You Gave Us." But social
workers and journalists praised the fact that children in New York's Jewish orphanages went to public
school. They also commended the orphanages' stringent hygiene and disease-prevention measures. Dr.
Abraham Jacobi, a founder of Mount Sinai Hospital and the first president of the American Pediatrics
Society, instituted a regimen of regular check-ups and compulsory inoculation against smallpox.
Overcrowding in the orphanages as more immigrants arrived from Europe and the development abroad
of more home-like "cottage" models for children's residences prompted HSGS to establish the
Pleasantville Cottage School in 1912. There, in 1925, a psychiatric social worker, Julia Goldman,
established the first psychiatric clinic in an American child care institution. After World War II, many
young Holocaust survivors came to live at Pleasantville.
The Child Welfare Act of 1915, which granted allowances to widows, radically reduced the orphanage
population. Studies emphasizing the value of keeping children in family settings led to the creation of a
Foster Home Bureau in 1922. In 1917, 24 Manhattan and Bronx charities, including HOA, its Edenwald
School for retarded children, HSGS and the Pleasantville Cottage School had combined to form
Federation For Support Of Jewish Philanthropies, the precursor of UJA-Federation. In 1940, all the child
care agencies were consolidated as the New York Association for Jewish Children, later renamed the
Jewish Child Care Association of New York.
"The need is overwhelming," says Kramer of JCCA family day care programs in Queens and Brooklyn.
Pre-school children, mostly from Russian-immigrant and Orthodox families, are cared for in homes
where the "language and cultural values are the same" while their parents work or go to school, says
Rebecca Koffler, director of early childhood programs. There's a long waiting list each of 110 day care
providers takes a maximum of five kids, only two of whom can be under 2 years old.
"When I go to work, I don't have to worry about anything," says Yelena Agranovskya, who works in
JCCA's human resources department. On weekdays from 9 to 6 her 2-year-old daughter stays with a
Bukharan day care provider in Forest Hills.
JCCA's 14-year-old Networking Adoption Program (NAP)/Ametz, which had a grant from
UJA-Federation's Jewish Continuity Commission, now specifically "targets Jewish and interfaith
families," says Kathy Brodsky, NAP/Ametz director. NAP and Ametz, which used to be a separate
Jewish component, are now "totally integrated." The new fee-for-service program includes a
state-mandated "home-study" visit by a social worker, workshops on Jewish issues, and Jewish holiday
celebrations for adoptive families.
NAP/Ametz will hold its fifth annual symposium on "Adoption and the Jewish Family" at
UJA-Federation on April 25. "We teach families how to pursue domestic or international adoptions,"
Brodsky says, but do not actively search for babies. However, "a small number of families may benefit
from situations that come to our attention."
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from another race or culture face the added hurdles of conversion and family and community acceptance.
"The Jewish community as a whole needs to come to grips with welcoming adopted children fully,"
Brodsky says.
To address these issues, NAP/Ametz will hold a seminar for the rabbinic community on June 7.
Co-sponsored by the New York Board of Rabbis and UJA-Federation's Commission on Synagogue and
Community Affairs, the forum will make rabbis more aware of "the importance of adoption and the role
it is playing in the Jewish community," Perelmuter says.
"The rabbinate regularly deals with halachic and social issues raised by adoption and problems of
infertility," says Rabbi Saul Berman, an associate professor of Jewish Studies at Stern College and the
director of Edah, a Modern Orthodox organization. Rabbi Berman, who will be the seminar's keynote
speaker, adds: "The look of the Jewish community is changing, and it is vital for Jewish leadership to be
sensitive to this and not allow any form of prejudice to exist based on racial origin."
Barbara Chasen, a psychologist who works with adopting families, found some much-needed emotional
support at NAP/Ametz three years ago, when she began the process of adopting her 12-year-old
daughter, Vika, in the Former Soviet Union. Vika, who had a Reform conversion and a bat mitzvah at
Congregation Rodeph Sholom, has met other adoptees at JCCA holiday parties. "It's a comfort to have a
community of adopted converted Jewish children," Chasen says.
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