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November 19, 1997
Mr. John J. Sweeney
President
American Federation of Labor and
Congress of Industrial Organizations
815 16th Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20006
Dear John:
I appreciate your thoughtful letter of October 22, and I've
shared your comments with my staff in the Domestic Policy
Council.
It was good to see you at the White House Conference on Child
Care. Your insights were valuable to our dialogue on why
child care matters both to our children's development and
to our nation's economy.
Few things are more important for parents than being able to
find child care that is affordable, accessible, and safe, and
in the coming months my Administration will develop a plan to
address this important issue. There is still much that all of
us -- government, business and labor, the nonprofit and religious
communities, school systems, individual citizens, and especially
parents -- can do to make sure that children of all ages have
the best possible care available to them.
As we work together toward this objective, I look forward to
your continued counsel. Thanks again.
Sincerely,
BILL CLINTON
BC/DIA/RLM/DWB/efr-jfc-lynn
(Corres. #3744606)
(11.sweeney.jj)
CC: W/copy of inc. to Jen Klein, 2ndFl/WW
CC: D. Ikemiyashiro, 93 OEOB
Xeroxed copy of personally signed original to NH through Todd
Stern
CLEAR THRU TODD STERN
PRESIDENT TO SIGN
American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations
EXECUTIVE COUNCIL
AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR
815 Sixteenth Street, N.W.
JOHN J. SWEENEY
RICHARD L. TRUMKA
LINDA CHAVEZ-THOMPSON
Washington, D.C. 20006
PRESIDENT
SECRETARY-TREASURER
EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT
(202) 637-5000
Edward T. Hanley
Wayne E. Glenn
Vincent R. Sombrotto
CONGRESS OF AFL INDUSTRIAL
Gerald W. McEntee
John T. Joyce
Morton Bahr
Robert A. Georgine
Gene Upshaw
Jay Mazur
Lenore Miller
John J. Barry
Moe Biller
George J. Kourpias
John N Sturdivant
Frank Hanley
James J. Norton
Michael Sacco
Ron Carey
Arthur A. Coia
Frank Hurt
Gloria T. Johnson
Douglas H. Dority
George F. Becker
Stephen P. Yokich
J. Randolph Babbitt
Clayola Brown
M.A. "Mac" Fleming
Carolyn Forrest
Pat Friend
Michael Goodwin
Joe L. Greene
Sonny Hall
Sumi Haru
Carroll Haynes
James LaSala
William Lucy
Leon Lynch
Doug McCarron
Andrew McKenzie
A.L. "Mike" Monroe
Arthur Moore
Arturo S. Rodriguez
Robert A. Scardelletti
Robert E. Wages
Jake West
Alfred K. Whitehead
Andrew L. Stern
Edward L. Fire
Martin J. Maddaloni
John M. Bowers
Sandra Feldman
October 22, 1997
239852
The Honorable William Jefferson Clinton
The White House
Washington, DC 20520
Dear Mr. President,
On behalf of the 13 million working men and women of the AFL-CIO -- and their children
-- I applaud your decision to convene this week's White House Conference on Child Care. We
appreciate the commitment that you and the First Lady have shown to raising public awareness
and increasing federal support for improving and expanding the nation's supply of high quality,
affordable early childhood and youth education programs. Like you, the working families of the
AFL-CIO know firsthand the difference that good quality care and education programs make in
the lives of children and families and the disaster and despair that can all too easily result when
such programs are lacking. We are pleased to participate in the White House conference;
delighted to join you in launching this much needed national dialogue; and eager to work with you
to build a system that guarantees high-quality, nurturing and safe early childhood care and
education programs, provided by well-trained and well-compensated providers, which is
accessible and affordable to working parents.
Over the last year, our Working Women's Department staff and union leaders held scores
of conversations with working parents to better identify their needs and to develop supportive,
responsive strategies. Not surprisingly, needs differ but working parents spoke in one voice in
saying that securing access to high quality, affordable early childhood programs remains a major
problem and priority. Nearly two-thirds of the mothers of young children in our recent Ask A
Working Woman Survey identified this issue as extremely important, but only a few -- 13% -- said
they receive child care benefits through their jobs. Parents of older children are also deeply
concerned about quality and quantity of care: more than half of parents in one 1996 survey said
that children are left alone too much, and a similar percentage surveyed by the National School-
Age Child Care Project said they would like to change their after-school child care arrangements.
Across-the-board, parents, educators, community leaders, law enforcement officers and teens all
say they want and need more and better school-age care, to improve children's learning
opportunities and to keep them out of harm's way.
It is critical to expand the availability of childhood education and care programs. We must
3
move beyond demanding the basics of sufficient qualified staff and clean, healthy settings. Within
the last few years, scientific knowledge on brain development and learning in the early years has
exploded. We must work to end the division between minimal child care for some and quality
early childhood programs based on the latest knowledge for others. All child care for all children
should be of high educational quality.
The labor movement has much to contribute to efforts to shape a thoughtful and
innovative initiative to meet the goal of delivering the best care for all children. Unions have
bargained for and secured tremendous work and family benefits for our members; in fact, many of
the best practice early childhood programs among American corporations are the product of
collective bargaining. Moreover, in many instances, union efforts have improved and expanded
childhood education and care options for communities at large.
We know, however, that collective bargaining alone cannot and will not address the
nation's shortfall of high quality, affordable programs, mitigate financial hardships for working
parents, or raise providers' compensation to levels commensurate with their skill and the care we
want them to exercise. We look forward to working with you in the weeks ahead to shape an
agenda that embodies three central elements responsive to these concerns: first, enhancing quality,
so children of all ages, regardless of caretaking arrangements, receive care that is educationally
sound, stimulating, nurturing and safe; second, expanding access to high quality, affordable early
childhood programs for working parents; and third, improving training and pay, so providers are
not only well qualified but financially able to pursue these important care giving careers. We are
confident you share this vision and urge you to do all you can to translate it into a reality for
America's working families.
Sincerely,
John J Sweeney
J:/staff/owens/pubpol
American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations
EXECUTIVE COUNCIL
AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR
815 Sixteenth Street, N.W.
JOHN J. SWEENEY
RICHARD L. TRUMKA
LINDA CHAVEZ-THOMPSON
Washington, D.C. 20006
PRESIDENT
SECRETARY-TREASURER
EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT
(202) 637-5000
Edward T. Hanley
Wayne E. Glenn
Vincent R. Sombrotto
Gerald W. McEntee
CONGRESS OF AFL INDUSTRIAL
John T. Joyce
Morton Bahr
Robert A. Georgine
Gene Upshaw
Jay Mazur
Lenore Miller
John J. Barry
Moe Biller
George J. Kourpias
John N. Sturdivant
Frank Hanley
James J. Norton
Michael Sacco
Ron Carey
Arthur A. Coia
Frank Hurt
Gloria T. Johnson
Douglas H. Dority
George F. Becker
Stephen P. Yokich
J. Randolph Babbitt
Clayola Brown
M.A. "Mac" Fleming
Carolyn Forrest
Pat Friend
Michael Goodwin
Joe L. Greene
Sonny Hall
Sumi Haru
Carroll Haynes
James LaSala
William Lucy
Leon Lynch
Doug McCarron
Andrew McKenzie
A.L. "Mike" Monroe
Arthur Moore
Arturo S. Rodriguez
Robert A. Scardelletti
Robert E. Wages
Jake West
Alfred K. Whitehead
Andrew L. Stern
Edward L. Fire
Martin J. Maddaloni
John M. Bowers
Sandra Feldman
October 22, 1997
The Honorable William Jefferson Clinton
The White House
Washington, DC 20520
Dear Mr. President,
On behalf of the 13 million working men and women of the AFL-CIO -- and their children
-- I applaud your decision to convene this week's White House Conference on Child Care. We
appreciate the commitment that you and the First Lady have shown to raising public awareness
and increasing federal support for improving and expanding the nation's supply of high quality,
affordable early childhood and youth education programs. Like you, the working families of the
AFL-CIO know firsthand the difference that good quality care and education programs make in
the lives of children and families -- and the disaster and despair that can all too easily result when
such programs are lacking. We are pleased to participate in the White House conference;
delighted to join you in launching this much needed national dialogue; and eager to work with you
to build a system that guarantees high-quality, nurturing and safe early childhood care and
education programs, provided by well-trained and well-compensated providers, which is
accessible and affordable to working parents.
Over the last year, our Working Women's Department staff and union leaders held scores
of conversations with working parents to better identify their needs and to develop supportive,
responsive strategies. Not surprisingly, needs differ but working parents spoke in one voice in
saying that securing access to high quality, affordable early childhood programs remains a major
problem and priority. Nearly two-thirds of the mothers of young children in our recent Ask A
Working Woman Survey identified this issue as extremely important, but only a few 13% -- said
they receive child care benefits through their jobs. Parents of older children are also deeply
concerned about quality and quantity of care: more than half of parents in one 1996 survey said
that children are left alone too much, and a similar percentage surveyed by the National School-
Age Child Care Project said they would like to change their after-school child care arrangements.
Across-the-board, parents, educators, community leaders, law enforcement officers and teens all
say they want and need more and better school-age care, to improve children's learning
opportunities and to keep them out of harm's way.
It is critical to expand the availability of childhood education and care programs. We must
3
move beyond demanding the basics of sufficient qualified staff and clean, healthy settings. Within
the last few years, scientific knowledge on brain development and learning in the early years has
exploded. We must work to end the division between minimal child care for some and quality
early childhood programs based on the latest knowledge for others. All child care for all children
should be of high educational quality.
The labor movement has much to contribute to efforts to shape a thoughtful and
innovative initiative to meet the goal of delivering the best care for all children. Unions have
bargained for and secured tremendous work and family benefits for our members; in fact, many of
the best practice early childhood programs among American corporations are the product of
collective bargaining. Moreover, in many instances, union efforts have improved and expanded
childhood education and care options for communities at large.
We know, however, that collective bargaining alone cannot and will not address the
nation's shortfall of high quality, affordable programs, mitigate financial hardships for working
parents, or raise providers' compensation to levels commensurate with their skill and the care we
want them to exercise. We look forward to working with you in the weeks ahead to shape an
agenda that embodies three central elements responsive to these concerns: first, enhancing quality,
so children of all ages, regardless of caretaking arrangements, receive care that is educationally
sound, stimulating, nurturing and safe; second, expanding access to high quality, affordable early
childhood programs for working parents; and third, improving training and pay, so providers are
not only well qualified but financially able to pursue these important care giving careers. We are
confident you share this vision and urge you to do all you can to translate it into a reality for
America's working families.
Sincerely,
Sweeney
J:/staff/owens/pubpol
JEANNE BROOKS-GUNN, PH.D.
VIRGINIA & LEONARD MARX PROFESSOR
CHILD DEVELOPMENT & EDUCATION
Center
for
Young
Children
August 15, 1997
and
Families
Elena Kagan
Deputy Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy
The White House
Washington, D.C. 20502
Jennifer Klein
Special Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy
2nd Floor West Wing
The White House
Washington, D.C. 20502
Re: White House Conference on Child Care
Dear Elena and Jennifer,
It was an honor to attend one of the planning sessions this summer for the upcoming White
House Conference on Child Care. The mix of attendees was terrific, as was the leadership of your staff
and Joan Lombardi. As requested, some thoughts about the direction and impact of the Conference on
Child Care are summarized in this letter. If you would like more detail on any of the following points,
please do not hesitate to contact me. This letter is brief, as I am sure that you are coordinating lots of
responses and opinions.
The Conference needs to address the child care needs of all American families. While all of us
are particularly concerned about child care for poor families, especially those in which parents are in the
low wage job market, child care cuts across social class and ethnic groups. It is a universal problem. No
group is immune from the hassles of finding and keeping affordable child care. And, with respect to
quality, low quality child care exists for middle income as well as poor families.
The Conference planners need to consider how to handle the issue of age of child, since the
needs of families and types of child care available change over time. As a researcher, I think about four
age groups or childhood transitions-infancy, toddlerhood, preschool, early elementary school. Of course,
after school care is also a concern for late elementary school and for middle school students and their
parents. However, I see the issues as quite different (usually framing them in terms of after school
athletic, artistic, and academic programs and community connections/civic responsibility). At the least,
though, I would not omit the difficult child care issues for kindergartners (almost half of whom are in half-
time kindergarten programs). Also, the Conference could make the point that child care needs to not end
at the school door (i.e., what do we need to do vis-a-vis wrap around care and after school programs for
our 5 to 8 year olds?).
When considering the preschool child, the Conference might stress that the majority of 4 year
olds (as well as 5 year olds) are in some type of preschool, prekindergarten, or junior kindergarten. This
is true of children whose mothers are working and those whose mothers are not. The question of early
education and child care begin to blur at about age 4. Another point to stress when thinking about the
universal needs of children and parents in our country today.
NV
Brooks-Gunn
8/15/97
The Conference planners need to find a common meeting ground among the groups advocating
for different solutions (good luck!). For example, one important strand is to focus on educating parents
about quality care and helping parents advocate for better and accessible child care in their
communities. At the same time, we do not want parents to feel that the burden is theirs, alone. I might
have an education campaign for parents on child care (would love to work on this).
Clearly, public and private sectors have a role to play-business in strengthening links/providing
benefits/providing time off for parents with children (i.e., cafeteria benefit plans, family leave, and so on).
The public sector needs to be a major focus, especially early education. Many other countries
have essentially extended elementary school downwards-kindergarten becomes full day, 4 year old
programs are housed in public schools. Federal and state programs also can move the field of early
education. For example, Head Start (and programs like it) could be extended to families above the
poverty threshold, using sliding scales for fees. We have done this for Medicaid (even before the 1997
Budget Bill) and certainly could do it for preschool education/Head Start. Or, subsidies can be extended
(see the neat program in Illinois as an exemplar. I think that parents earning up tc $22,000 dollars, or a
bit more, will be eligible for child care subsidies).
One of the big issues is whether we attack the problem of accessibility and quality by focusing on
the most vulnerable children across the first 5 years, or whether we focus on extending universal
preschool education down to age 3 or 2 1/2. The latter has the benefit of being more universal and
having more public support. The former, of course, has the benefit of helping our most needy. Perhaps a
compromise might be to focus on universal (or closer to universal) 3- and 4-year-old programs and full
day kindergartens, with more attention to vulnerable children's child care needs in the first three years of
life.
In terms of preschools for majority of children (a possible goal) of a certain age, the White House
could involve the governors. Preschool education for the children and child care for the parents, as one
goal, might be very appealing to some governors.
The issues with infants and toddlers are different. Center-based care for the little ones is really
expensive. It is unlikely that even a significant minority of our one-year-olds are going to be in center-
based care in the foreseeable future. So I would try to separate the age groups and, for young children,
stress multiple arrangements. Family-care homes have a big role to play with the youngest set. Training,
credentialing, and increasing supply are the issues in family-care for young children. Stability is the other
big issue for the little ones. One reason to separate some of the child care issues by age of child is that
the President's and First Lady's recommendations/programs might be quite different for the younger than
older children. How about some sort of training program for child care providers of young children? We
have thought of some sort of Americorps or EZcorps (being in New York City) focusing on child care
provision/home visiting/literacy.
A final question is how to raise awareness of public so that preschool education and infant child
care becomes a community goal, a partnership between parents and community institutions.
I will be away from the office until after the Labor Day Holiday. However, if you need to reach
me before then, please contact my assistant Veronica Holly at 212-678-3338. Again, please do not
hesitate to contact me!
1. Public education
Quality Incentive
Sincerely,
2. Universul Preschool
Schol
Jeanne 18 Brooks-Gunn
Family lare
3. Family care for 0-3
Subsidy
4. Quality
DCTC
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Background
5. Americoups for young Children care
Churs
6. School age
School Age
Oct-16-97 02:16P
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Children's Defense Fund
TELEPHONE: (202) 662-3547
FAX: (202) 662-3560
TO:
Jennifer Klein
FIRM:
CITY/STATE:
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456-28-18
FROM:
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If you have any problems receiving this fax, please contact Kanya Williams at (202) 662-3544.
Oct-16-97 02:16P
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DEAR
SE GOOD LORD
THE SEAIS TOME so
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Dt: October 12, 1997
To: Friends of Children
Fr:
Helen Blank and Nicole Oxendine Poersch
Children's Defense Fund
Re:
Press coverage related to the White House Child Care Conference
As you know, we have an exciting opportunity to draw increased attention to the need for
high quality child care. On October 23, 1997, President Clinton and First Lady Hillary Rodham
Clinton will host the White House Conference on Child Care in Washington, D.C. This
conference intends to examine the strengths and weaknesses of child care in America and explore
how the nation can better respond to working families' need for affordable. high quality child
care.
We expect the White House press corps and other Washington, D.C.-based reporters to
begin to cover the conference this week with advance stories. You may have already seen a
number of national articles on the First Lady's statements leading up to the conference.
This conference presents an important opportunity for state, regional, and local reporters
to write stories on child care from a local perspective. You may have already received such calls
or can anticipate receiving such calls in the coming days.
Attached for your information is a fact sheet on child care in America. We hope this
information is helpful as you lay out the basic child care issues to other members of the
community and the media. The fact sheet is designed to outline the key "big picture" child care
issues and is reflective of the language and concerns we heard voiced in our focus groups with
parents and grandparents.
Some specific suggestions for working with the media follow:
Write a letter to the editor of your local paper to be published prior to the White House
Conference on Child Care calling attention to the conference and the need to address the
child care issue in your community. If possible, cite local statistics and facts about the state
of child care in your area. (Sec draft letter enclosed.)
Contact reporters who traditionally cover children's issues. If you are unsure of who these
reporters arc, call your local papers and ask them who covers child care issues. Lct the
reporters know you are monitoring the White House conference and make yourself available
should they be doing a local child care piece. If you do not have a press list and need
assistance. please call CDF's press office at (202) 662-3609.
Develop a local or state child care fact sheet and send it with the enclosed national fact sheet
to press who cover children.
25 L Street. NW
Washington. DC 20001
Telephone 202 628 8787
Fax 202 AAD 3510
Oct-16-97 02:16P
P.03
Coordinate with other children's groups to determine if there is interest in holding a media
event to call local attention to the White House Conference on Child Care. You may wish to
highlight the White House Conference during upcoming state or local child care events or
activities.
Find a child care center and/or working parents with child care concerns that represent the
child care situation in your community. Work with the employees of the center or members
of the family to help ensure availability for interviews with the media about child care.
The day prior to the conference, issue a statement with other children's groups commending
the President and the First Lady for addressing this important issue and calling upon local
leaders to pay attention to the conference and its objectives. Be prepared for follow-up
questions on what your opinion is of the conference and its deliberations.
We hope this information is helpful to you. As more information about the conference
and the developments that follow becomes available, we will forward it to you. If you have any
questions, please do not hesitate to contact Nicole Oxendine Poersch at 202/662-3670.
Oct-16-97 02:16P
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Inadequate Child Care
Strains America's Working Families
Every day, three out of five preschoolers are in child care.¹
Children of working mothers are entering care as early as 6 weeks of age and can be in care
for 30 hours a week until they reach school age.²
Women work in the overwhelming majority of American families.
3 out of 5 women with children under age 6 work, and 3 out of 4 women with children ages
6-17 work.³
Child care costs are unaffordable for many working families.
About half of families with young children earn less than $35,000 per year.4 A family with
both parents working full-time at minimum wage earns only $21,400 per year.
Child care is a major household expense for working families. Full-day child care easily costs
$4,000 to $10,000 per year -- equal to what families pay for college tuition plus room and
board at a public university. The following are average child care costs for one three-year-
old child; care for babies and toddlers costs even more:6
Boston $8,840
Durham $4,630
Dallas $4,210
Boulder $6,240
Oakland $6,500
Minneapolis $6,030
Child care helps shape the way children think, learn, and behave
for the rest of their lives.
A recent report by the Carnegie Corporation confirmed that the quality of child care has a
lasting impact on children's well-being and ability to learn.⁷ Children in poor quality child
care have been found to be delayed in language and reading skills, and display more
aggression toward other children and adults.
Child care quality for many American children is inadequate.
6 out of 7 child care centers provide care that is mediocre to poor, according to a recent
national study by a group of universities. One in eight centers were found to be providing
care that could jeopardize children's safety and development.⁹ Equally alarming patterns
10
were found in a study of home-based care -- 1 in 3 could be harmful.
There are major gaps in the basic health and safety standards for child care in many states,
and even the standards that are in place are often inadequately enforced. For example, in
many states, care in smaller providers' homes is not inspected at all because licensing is not
required, and more than half the states do not annually inspect homes that are licensed.¹ 11
Professional, quality child care is hard to find in a marketplace that pays child care teachers
and providers less than bus drivers ($20,150) or garbage collectors ($18,100). 12 A national
wage study found that most child care workers earn only $12,058 per year (only slightly
above minimum wage) and receive no benefits or paid leave.¹³
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Staff education and training are among the most critical elements in improving children's
experiences in child care, but 41 states do not require providers who offer care in their homes
to have any training prior to serving children.¹⁴
Babies and toddlers are particularly vulnerable to poor quality care.
Almost half of babies who haven't reached their first birthday are regularly spending their
day in some form of child care.¹⁵
A recent national study found that half of rooms in centers serving babies and toddlers
provided such poor quality care as to jeopardize children's health, safety and development.¹⁶
Studies of home-based care produced equally troubling results.¹
Scarcity of after-school programs leaves school-age children home alone.
Nearly 5 million children are home alone after school each weel:.¹⁸
Juvenile crime peaks between 2:00 and 6:00 p.m. and there is some evidence that more teen
pregnancies occur during this time.¹⁹
A 1990 study found that eighth-graders left home alone after school reported greater use of
cigarettes, alcohol, and marijuana than those who were in adult-supervised settings.20
Good after-school activities for children and teens can be hard to find because options are
inadequate in many communities. This problem is even more serious in low-income
neighborhoods -- only one-third of schools in low-income neighborhoods offered before- and
after-school programs in 1993.2
America can help working families get affordable, quality child care.
1. Strong safety standards must be established and enforced for all centers and homes offering
child care. Programs to improve the quality of care and help parents find good options for
their children should be expanded.
2. Child care providers should be trained professionals, earning family-supporting wages.
Efforts must be made to increase the number of child care staff who are appropriately trained
and compensated. Scholarship and loan forgiveness programs should be expanded to support
careers in child development.
3. Structured after-school activities should be available in all communities. Investments should
be made to expand the supply of quality care for babies and toddlers, and to strengthen and
enrich existing programs.
4. Child care help should be available to low-income families to prevent welfare dependency.
Federal, state and local dollars should also help other working families with their child care
expenses and better afford quality care.
5. Employers should help their employees who need child care, and should invest in improving
the quality of child care in the communities in which they operate.
6. The Family and Medical Leave Act should be expanded to cover more workplaces and
employees to help enable working parents stay home with their children during the critical
early months of a child's life.
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Sources:
I
National Center for Education Statistics. Child Care and Early Education Program Participation of
Infants. Toddlers, and Preschoolers (Washington, DC: NCES, October 1996).
2
Testimony by Deborah Phillips before the Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources,
March 1. 1995.
3
US Bureau of Labor Statistics, unpublished data from March 1995.
4
US Bureau of the Census, Current Population Reports. P60-197, Money and Income in the United States:
1996 (Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office, 1997).
5
Data on child care expenses from Child Care Information Exchange. July 1996. Data collected from
Resource and Referral agencies in each city. Data on average university costs cited in Statistical Abstract of the
United States 1994 (Washington DC: US Department of Commerce, 1994). Original data from The College Board.
New York, Annual Survey of Colleges 1993.
6
Child Care Information Exchange, July 1996. Data collected from Resource and Referral agencies in each
city.
7
Carnegie Corporation of New York, Starting Points: Meeting the Needs of Our Youngest Children (New
York: Carnegie Corporation, August 1994).
$
Testimony by Deborah Phillips before the Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources,
March 1. 1995.
9
Helburn et al., Cost, Quality, and Child Outcomes Study: Executive Summary (Denver: University of
Colorado, 1995).
10
Galinsky et al., The Study of Children in Family Child Care and Relative Care: Highlights of Findings
(New York: Families and Work Institute, 1994).
11
Adams, How Safe? The Status of State Efforts 10 Protect Children in Child Care (Washington, DC:
Children's Defense Fund, 1995).
12
US Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Employment and Earnings (Washington DC:
USDOL, January 1994).
13
Helburn ct al., Cost. Quality, and Child Outcomes Study: Executive Summary (Denver: University of
Colorado, 1995).
14
Azer and Capraro, Data on Child Care Licensing (Boston: The Center for Career Development in Early
Care and Education, Wheelock College, 1996).
15
National Center for Education Statistics, Child Care and Early Education Program Participation of
Infants. Toddlers. and Preschoolers (Washington, DC: NCES, October 1996).
16
Helburn et al., Cost, Quality, and Child Outcomes Study: Executive Summary (Denver: University of
Colorado, 1995).
17
Galinsky et al., The Study of Children in Family Child Care and Relative Care: Highlights of Findings
(New York: Families and Work Institute, 1994).
12
School-Age Child Care Project, Factsheet on school-age children (Wellesley, MA: Center for Research on
Women, Wellesley College, September 1996). Teen pregnancy information based on anectodal evidence.
19
US Department of Justice. Juvenile Offenders and Victims: 1997 Update on Violence (Washington DC: US
DOJ, June, 1997).
20
Dwyer ct al., "Characteristics of Eighth-Grade Students Who Initiate Self-Care in Elementary and Junior
High School", Pediatrics, 86, 1990.
21
US Department of Education, The Condition of Education: 1993 (Washington, DC: National Center for
Education Statistics. 1993).
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SAMPLE LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Dear XXXXX:
On Thursday, October 23, 1997, President Clinton and First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton will
be convening the nation's first White House Conference on Child Care. This conference will
focus on the strengths and weaknesses of child care in America and explore how the nation can
better support working families' need for quality, affordable care for their children. It will also
highlight school-age care for our children and teens, responding to the concern that nearly five
million children are left home alone each week.
The Administration should be commended for focusing national attention on the child care needs
of our children and youth. We hope the conference will be the beginning of a renewed effort in
Washington and across the country to find solutions that make quality child care affordable for
all.
There is good reason to move ahead. Child care is an issue that affects many American families.
Every day, three out of five preschoolers are in child care. According to recent studies, many of
these children are not in the safe and nurturing settings they deserve. Six out of seven child care
centers provide care that is poor to mediocre, and care in as many as one-third of providers'
homes could be harmful to children. Yet, even average carc remains unaffordable for many
working families. Parents can easily have to pay $4,000 to $10,000 per year for a child in child
care -- as much as tuition, room and board at many colleges.
In our state of XXXXX. [if available, insert local information about child care]
I hope the White House Conference on Child Care will help all of us in [s our community] focus
on how parents, employers, communities, and all levels of government can work together to help
find innovative solutions to families' child care needs.
Sincerely,
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President
NATIONAL ADVISORY
Sanford A. Newman
COMMITTEE
FIGHT
INVEST
Associate Directors
POLICE
IN KIDS
Amy A. Dawson
Philip Arreola
Chief, Tacoma, WA
CRIME
Brendan J. Fitzsimons
Sherman Block
Elissa Rumsey
Sheriff, LA County, CA
William Bratton
Fmr. Commiss'r., NYC
A. Cabral
President, Int'l Union of
Police Ass'ns, AFL-CIO
Gerald A. Cooper
Fmr. Chief, Evenston, IL
Memorandum
M. Esserman
Chief, Metro North, NY
Gilbert G. Gallegos
TO:
Ms. Jennifer Klein
President, Fraternal
Order of Police
FROM: Amy Dawson
E. Douglas Hamilton
DATE: October 2, 1997
Chief, Louisville. KY
E. Keith
FAX:
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Chief Knoxville. TN
R. Kerlikowske
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Commissioner, Buffalo, NY
RE:
Conference panelists
Talmadge N. Moore
Chief, Ft. Wayne, IN
Charles A. Moose
Chief, Portland, OR
Patrick V. Murphy
Hi, Jennifer,
Former Commiss'r, NYC,
DC, Detroit. Syracuse
Dennis E. Nowleki
As promised, we've compiled a list of FIGHT CRIME Advisors we think would be
Chief, Charlotte-
good speakers at the White House Conference on Child Care. The strongest
Mecklenburg, NC
Nicholas Pastore
combination would probably be one police chief and one crime survivor. Coming from
Chief, New Haven, CT
two very different angles, their unique crime-prevention perspectives could be
L Rodriguez
Superintendent, Chicago, IL
invaluable in framing the issue as one in which all Americans have a vital self-interest.
Joseph Samuels
I've attached bios on each person.
Chief, Oakland. CA
Darrel W. Stephens
Chief, St. Petersburg. FL
Our top choices among law enforcement leaders would be (in order of public speaking
Patrick J. Sullivan, Jr.
Shertff, Arapahoe Co., CO
ability):
Donald H. Warshaw
Chief, Miami, FL
Robert 8. Warshaw
John J. Millner, Chief of Police, Elmhurst, IL
Chief, Rocheater, NY
Patrick Sullivan, Jr., Sheriff, Arapahoe County, AZ
Elizabeth M. Watson
Chief, Austin, TX
R. Gil Kerlikowske, Chief of Police, Buffalo, NY;
President, Police Executive Research Forum
PROSECUTORS
Ronald Earle
District Atty., Travis Co., TX
Second Tier (simply because we haven't seen them speak publicly):
N
n 8. Early, Jr.
Former D.A., Denver, CO
O'Malley
Phil E. Arreola, Chief of Police, Tacoma, WA
a Arty., Cook Co., IL
Ralph C. Martin, II
Sylvester Daughtry, Chief of Police, Greensboro, NC
Any., Suffolk Co., MA
Charles Moose, Chief of Police, Portland, OR
Elliot L Richardson
Former Attorney General
and Secretary of HEW, of
Defense and of Commerce
a
Woods
Among crime survivors:
Attorney General, AZ
SURVIVORS
Ellen Halbert (our top pick), a sexual assault survivor from Austin, TX. Ellen
Frances Davis
was brutally raped, beaten, and stabbed by a young intruder in her home. She
For., Mothers of All Children
Ellen Halbert
is an amazing speaker, particularly when she forcefully delivers the message
Vice-Chair, Texas Board of
Criminal Justice
that the attack might not have happened if we were investing the necessary
1
Grant Hall
resources in crime prevention programs like quality child care, etc.
Director, Ginger Ridge
Gordon or Elaine Rondeau from Georgia, whose daughter Renee was murdered
Residents' Initiative
Klass
in Chicago.
Fdr.. Klass Fdn. for Children
I
Less, Ph.D.
Mgr., Mental Health Clinic
Lewis
We'll be glad to help in any way possible; just say the word.
President, Parents of
Murdered Children
Gordon Rondeau &
Elaine Rondeau
Founders, Action America:
Murder Must End Now
1334 G Street, NW Suite B Washington, DC 20005-3107 (202) 638-0690 Fax (202) 638-0673 E-mail: [email protected]
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Philip Arreola
Chief of Police
Milwaukee Police Department
749 West State Street
P.O. Box 531
Milwaukee, WI 53201
(414) 935-7200
Date of birth:
(b)(6)
Marital Status:
Married
EDUCATION
Juris Doctor . December, 1985
Wayne State University Law School
Graduate F.B.I. National Executive Institute, 1990
Graduate F.B.I. Law Enforcement Development Seminar, 1988
Graduate F.B.I. National Academy, 1977
Bachelor of Science (with distinction), 1974
Major-Police Administration
Wayne State University
Research Fellow of Criminal Justice, 1970-1971
Harvard University of Law School
Courses in criminal law, research and evaluation, techniques, and sociology perspectives
and research. This program was sponsored by the Center of Criminal Justice, Harvard
Law, and attendance under the auspices of the Detroit Police Department.
CAREER EXPERIENCE
DETROIT:
Appointed Police Cadet . April 3, 1960
Appointed Patrolman . July 10, 1961
Promoted to Detective . October 16, 1969
Promoted to Sergeant . April 3, 1970
Promoted to Lieutenant - November 6, 1972
Promoted to Inspector - November 9, 1976
Promoted to Commander - September 29, 1977
Retired May 1, 1987 with rank of Commander
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Appointed Chief of Police - May 4, 1987
MILWAUKEE:
Appointed Chief of Police . November 6, 1989
ASSIGNMENTS
September 18, 1961
Patrolman
Second Precinct
January 20, 1963
Patrolman
Motor Traffic Bureau
September 15, 1969
Patrolman
Crime Scene Investigation
October 20, 1969
Detective
Second Precinct C.I.D.
April 3, 1970
Sergeant
Tenth Precinct Uniform Division
October 7, 1971
Sergeant
Training Academy
April 1, 1972
Sergeant
Scientific Division
January 2, 1974
Lieutenant
Exec. Lt. Scientific Division
November 9, 1976
Inspector
Commanding Officer Crime Lab
September 29, 1977
Commander
Sixth Precinct
May 4, 1987
Chief
City of Port Huron, Michigan
November 6, 1989
Chief
City of Milwaukee, Wisconsin
AWARDS . POLICE
DETROIT:
Detroit Police Department Medal for Valor 1986
Lifesaving Citation
Department Citations #1663 and #2184
Commissioner's Unit Awards #26 and #80
Eleven Merit Citations
Twenty Commendations
Two Crime Prevention Citations
Chiefs Merit Awards #82 and #342
COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
DETROIT POLICE DEPARTMENT
Board of Ethics
Sports Sanction Committee (Chairman)
Legislative Committee (member)
PORT HURON
Title III Emergency Planning Committee, St. Clair County
MILWAUKEE
Milwaukee Metropolitan Drug Enforcement Group
City of Milwaukee Quality Performance Task Force
City of Milwaukee "Hang Tough" Task Force on Drug Prevention
City of Milwaukee Juvenile Crime Task Force
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COMMUNITY-CIVIC INVOLVEMENTS
New Detroit, Inc. Substance Abuse
New Detroit Latin Caucus (Crime Committee)
Detroit Substance Abuse Advisory Council
Agency for Substance Abuse Services in Detroit (Mayoral appointment)
New Detroit Hispanic Leadership Council (member)
Detroit West Side Optimist Club
Board of Directors, Western Y.M.C.A.
Board of Directors, LaCasa (substance abuse center)
Board of Directors, United Way (Domestic Assault Rape Elimination Services)
Board of Directors, Boys and Girls Club of Milwaukee
Chairman, Advisory Committee, Holton Youth Center, Milwaukee
Board of Directors, Police Athletic League, Milwaukee
Chairman, Detroit Archdiocese Catholic Service Appeal, 1986
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
Member, International Chiefs of Police Association
Major Cities Chiefs Association
Detroit Police Lieutenants and Sergeants Association (emeritus)
F.B.I. National Academy
Michigan Bar Association, member
American Bar Association, member
St. Clair County Bar Association, past member
Milwaukee Hispanic Chamber of Commerce
Wisconsin Chiefs of Police Association
Milwaukee County Law Enforcement Executives Association
Hispanic American Command Police Officers Association
Wisconsin Police Executive Group
National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Officers (NOBLE)
INTERAGENCY ACTIVITY
Conducted evaluation study of Department of Safety, Wayne State University, 1988
Participated in promotional assessment centers for: New Orleans Police Department, 1984
for rank of sergeant; Miami, Dade County Police Department, 1985 for the rank of
Captain; St. Clair County Sheriff's Department for the rank of Lieutenant
MISCELLANEOUS
Numerous lectures presented to civic groups, bar associations and police groups.
Adjunct Professor, Marquette University and Milwaukee Area Technical Colleges
Subjects: Criminology and Police Sciences
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NO.033 P002
SYLVESTER DAUGHTRY
CHIEF OF POLICE
GREENSBORO POLICE DEPARTMENT
Sylvester Daughtry, Jr. servec ac the Chief of Police for the in
Greensboro, North Carolina Police Department. He began his career
November, 1968, rising through the ranks to become Chief of Police in
January, 1987.
Chief Daughtry directs the Greensboro Police Department, a full-service
law enforcement agency of 461 sworn law enforcement officers and 131
non-sworn employees. The Department serves the city of Greensboro, a
municipality of 108 square miles and a population of 200,000.
Chief Daughtry earned a bachelor's degree in history from North
Carolina A&T State University, Greensboro, North Carolina in 1973. He
is also a graduate of the Southern Folice Institute's Administrative
Officers Course, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky; the
FBI National Academy, Quantico, virginia; the 18th session of the FBI
National Executive Institute; and the Municipal Administration Course,
Institute of Government, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill,
North Carolina.
Chief Daughtry is an active member in the North Carolina Association of
Chiefs of Police, North Carolina Police Executives Association, North
State Law Enforcement Officers Association, Police Executives Research
Forum (PERF), the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement
Executives (NOBLE) and the International Association of Chiefs of
Police (IACP).
Chief Daughtry served as President of the International Association of
Chiefs of Police during 1993/94. The IACP is the world's largest
professional law enforcement executive organization with approximately
15,000 members.
In 1995, Chief Daughtry was elected as Chairman of the Commission for
Accreditation of Law Enforcement Agencies, Inc., which encourages
agency excellence through adherence to strict professional standards.
Chief Daughtry served on the President's Commission for Model State
Drug Laws and on the Governor's Crime Commission. He currently serves
on the Commission for the Future of Justice and the Courts in North
Carolina, and the Advisory Board for the Administrative Officers
Management Program, North Carolina State University.
Chief Daughtry is the recipient of numerous honors and awards. Most
noteworthy are the North Carolina A&T State University Alumni
Association's Achievement Award for outstanding achievement and
excellence in law enforcement, and the William French Smith Award
presented by the United States Attorney General for outstanding
contribution to cooperative law enforcement. Chief Daughtry is honored
in the 1995-96 50th Edition of who's Who In America, Law Enforcement.
Chief Daughtry is married to Millicent Clorissa Corpening Daughtry and
they have two children; a son, sean, a doctoral student at the
Massachusette Institute of Technology and a daughter, Maya, an
undergraduate student at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
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Philip Arreola: Chief of Police, Milwaukee, WI
See attached resume.
Gilbert Gallegos, National President, Fraternal Order of
Police
Gilbert Gallegos is the President of the Fraternal Order of Police, the
largest law enforcement labor organization in the United States.
Gallegos retired as a deputy chief of police from the Albuquerque Police
Department after 25 years of service. He is a board member of the
National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and the Center for
Craminal Justice Studies.
R. Gil Kerlikowske: Commissioner of Police, Buffalo, NY
Commissioner Gil Kerlikowske was appointed to his position in
January, 1994. Prior to that he served as Chief of Police in Fort Pierce,
Florida for four years. In 1996, Commissioner Kerlikowske was elected
to replace former New York City Police Commissioner William
Bratton as President of the Police Executive Research Forum(PERF),
whose members include police chiefs, sheriffs, and other law
enforcement executives from police jurisdictions serving more than
100 million Americans.
He began his law enforcement career with the St. Petersburg police
department in 1972. During his tenure he served as the commanding
officer of several divisions, including Narcotics, Criminal
Investigation, and Internal Affairs. He received a one year fellowship
from the U.S. Department of Justice in 1985 to evaluate police
procedures throughout the country.
Commissioner Kerlikowske holds a B.A. and an M.A. in criminal
justice from the University of South Florida in Tampa. He is a
graduate of the National Executive Institute at the F.B.I. Academy in
Quantico, Virginia, and the Executive Session on Policing at the John
F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
He was the 1990 recipient of the Gary Hayes national award for
innovation in policing presented by the Police Executive Research
Forum.
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JOHN J. MILLNER
EXPERIENCE:
Chief of Police
March, 1972 . Present
Elmhurst Police Department
Elmhurst, Illinois
Rose through ranks from patrolman to Chief
Ten and one-half years 89 Chief of Police
Staff of over 120 employees
Annual Budget of over $7,000,000
Instituted numerous police and community programs
Chairmen, Illinois Violense to Children Tack Foree
Elected Eight term Chairman of DuPage Metropolitan Enforcement Group (DUMEG);
a 34-community county-wide narcotic enforcement unit.
Appointed Member of the Governor's Task Force Training and Curriculum on Domestic
Violence.
Steering Committee DuPage County State's Attorney's Substance Abuse Commission Co-
chairing the School and Law Enforcement Subcommittee.
Chairman of Illinois Chiefs of Police Legislative Committee.
Chairman of DuPage Crime Commission Law Enforcement Committee.
Associate Secretary to Switzerland of the International Police Association; the largest police
association in the world.
Vice President for Northeast Multi-Regional Training, the largest mobile training region in the
State of Illinois.
Executive Board Member of Illinois Chiefs of Police Association.
Appointed Member - Illinois Family Violence Coordinating Council..
Bank Director - Community Bank of Elmhurst.
Appointed Member - State of Ilinois - Legislative Committee on Juvenile Justice
Past Founding Co-chairman of Illinois Chiefs of Police Gang Committee.
Past President of DuPage Communications Executive Board (DUCOMM); the largest
cooperative public safety communications organization in State of Illinois.
Past-Founding Chairman of DuPage County Advisory Commission on Gangs; a
multi-disciplinary approach to intervention and suppression of gang activity.
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JOHN J. MILLNER
Past-President of the DuPage County Chiefs of Police Association.
Past-President of Midwest Homicide Investigators Association.
OTHER EXPERIENCE:
In the last 20 years has instructed thousands of law enforcement practitioners from around the
country and for many different private law enforcement and governmental organizations, such as:
Valencia College, Orlando, Florida
Southern Police Institute, University of Louisville, Kentucky
St. Paul, Minnesota, Executive Development Institute
Indianapolis, Indiana, Police Training Academy
Northwestern University
Illinois Local Government Training Regions
Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida
and many others
Certified Master Investigative Hypnotist.
Hypnotized over 1000 people
Cleared many criminal cases
Lectured on topic to wide variety of audiences in seminars and at academic institutions
Developed and instituted seminars in advanced interviewing and interrogation.
Extensive experience in the art of interviewing and interrogation
Considered an expert in this field by practitioners from around the country.
Licensed polygraph examiner in the State of Illinois
Adjunct faculty member at Aurora University, Aurora, Illinois
Teaching undergraduate as well as graduate courses
Extensive experience in developing and conducting seminars
Consistently achieves superior ratings in the various seminars conducted.
consultant to law enforcement and other agencies.
President, John J. Millner & Associates, Inc., specializing in management training, seminars, and
Published author of training manuals and articles in professional journals.
Active in many other law enforcement and community organizations.
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JOHN J. MILLNER
EDUCATION:
Master of Arts Degree
Law Enforcement Administration
Western illinois University
McComb, Illinois
Bachelor of Arts Degree
Social Justice
Lewis University
Romeoville, Illinois
Associate of Science Degree
Police Administration
Triton College
River Grove, Illinois
Southern Police Institute's
Administrative Officer's Course
University of Louisville
Louisville, Kentucky
Technical Degree in Detection of Deception
Reld College
Chicago, Illinois
Over 1000 hours attending:
Law Enforcement Seminars;
College Courses; and
Symposiums;
relating to various aspects of law enforcement,
communications, hypnosis, polygraph, police
science and business courses
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CITY
CITY OF
VERA KATZ, MAYOR
PORTLAND, OREGON
Charles A. Moose, Chief of Police
1111 S.W. 2nd Avenue
Portland, Oregon 97204
BUREAU OF POLICE
THE
CHARLES A. MOOSE, Ph.D., Chief of Police
A Portland police officer since 1975, Charles Moose has experience in shaping community policing projects within the
community such as the Iris Court Community Policing Project and Operation Target. He provides the city a commitment
to continue the implementation of community policing and is determined to continue seeking innovative solutions to
neighborhood crime problems. He is proud of his many co-workers in the Police Bureau and is convinced that by
working together we can make a difference.
PROFESSIONAL CHRONOLOGY
June 1993 to present: Appointed Chief of Police June 29, 1993
1992 to 1993: Deputy Chief of Operations Branch
1991 to 1992: Captain of North Precinct
1984 to 1991: Lieutenant
1981 to 1984: Sergeant
1975 to 1981: Patrol Officer
1990 to present: Adjunct Faculty, Criminal Justice, Portland State University
1987 to present: Captain, Oregon Air National Guard
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Arts, U.S. History, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N.C. 1975
Master of Public Administration, Portland State University. 1984
PhD, Urban Studies/Criminology, Portland State University. 1993
FBI National Academy, 154th Session
FBI National Executive Institute, 17th Session
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS/COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES
National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives
Police Executive Research Forum, Member
American Society of Criminology
Comprehensive Options for Drug Abusers, Board of Directors
Black United Fund of Oregon, Funding Allocation Committee
Board on Public Safety Standards and Training. Board Member
Boys and Girls Club of Portland, Board of Directors
International Association of Chiefs of Police, Member
IACP Civil Rights Committee
Society of Police Futurists International
Governor's Drug and Violent Crime Policy Board
Governor's Juvenile Justice Task Force
PSU Foundation Board of Directors, Member
Chair, Regional Drug Initiative
Member, Portland Service Area Community Board
PERSONAL DATA
Date of birth:
(b)(6)
Spouse: Sandra Herman-Moose
10/95
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SHERIFF PATRICK J. SULLIVAN, JR.
ARAPAHOE COUNTY
5686 South Court Place
Littleton, CO 80120-1200
PERSONAL
Born:
(b)(6)
Family:
Married August 24, 1968 to Linda S. McCamy
Children - Pamela, age 27 and Patrick III, age 24
MILITARY
February 1966
U.S. Army Intelligence Command. Chief Counter
- July 1969
Intelligence Agent for the U.S. Army Missile Command
EDUCATION
May 1965
Associate in Applied Science
Major: Law Enforcement
Trinidad State Junior College
Trinidad. Colorado
August 1977
Bachelor of Science
Major: Law Enforcement Administration
Minor: Personnel Management
Metropolitan State College
Denver, Colorado
Graduate work toward a Master in Public Administration at the
University of Colorado Denver Center and the University of Virginia
EMPLOYMENT
March 1962 - September 1963
Police Officer/Dispatcher
May 1965 . February 1966
Littleton Police Department
February 1986 - July 1969
Active Duty - U.S. Army
July 1969 - May 1970
Patrolman, Littleton Police Department
May 1970 - November 1972
Sergeant. Patrol Division
Littleton Police Department
November 1972 - January 1979
Lieutenant, Patrol Division Commander
Littleton Police Department
January 1979 - July 1980
Captain, Patrol Division Commander
Arapshos County Sheriff's Office
August 1980 - December 1982
Captain, Investigation Division Commender
Arapahoe County Sheriff's Office
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EMPLOYMENT (continued)
January 1983 . June 1983
Undersheriff, Chief of Operations
Arapahoe County Shariff's Office
June 1983 . January 1985
Appointed Sheriff of Arapahoe County
January 1985 - January 1987
Elected Sheriff of Arapahoe County
(unopposed)
January 1987 to January 1991
Re-elected Sheriff of Arapahoe County
(unopposed)
January 1991 to January 1995
Re-elected Sheriff of Arapahoe County
(unopposed)
January 1995 to Present
Re-elected Sheriff of Arapahoe County
TRAINING
F.B.I. National Academy, Graduate, 1977
National Sheriffs' Institute. Graduate, 1983
Juvenile Officers' Institute, University of Minnesota, 1965
Intergovernmental Management Seminar, University of Denver, 1976
Supervision of Police Personnel, Northwestern University, 1971
Civil Emergency Management Course. California Specialized Training Institute, 1976
Special Tactical Firearms Course (SWAT). F.B.I. Academy, 1974
Special Weapons and Tactics Course, Los Angeles Police Department, 1975
Forensic Science Seminar, Colorado Law Enforcement Training Academy, 1977
Management of the Search Function. National Park Service. 1978
Emergency Medical Technician, Aurora Presbyterian Hospital, 1980
Hazardous Materials Transportation Technical Course, 1982
Management of the Criminal Investigation Function, National Sheriff's Association, 1982
Fleet Management Course, International Association of Chiefs of Police, 1980
Numerous other short courses and seminars
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Arapahoe County Hazardous Materials Authority Board: Chairman
Arapahoe County Emergency Planning Committee (SARA Title III): Chairman
Arapahoe County Emergency Telephone Service Authority Board: Past Chairman
Arapshoe County Justice Center Site Selection Committee
Arapahoe County Justice Center Project Team
American Society of Industrial Security . Denver Mile-Hi Chapter
Colorado Association of Chiefs of Police, Inc.
Colorado Crime Information Center: Policy Advisory Board, Pest Chairman
County Sheriffs of Colorado, Inc.: Past President; Past Chairman, Legislative Committee;
Chairman, Victim Assistance Committee
Colorado Bureau of Investigation: Search Committee for Director, Chairman
Denver Regional Council of Governments: Diagnostic Unit Siting Committee
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PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES (continued)
Governor Roy Romer's Cabinet Selection Committee for position of Executive Director,
Department of Corrections: Member
National Sheriffs' Association: Board of Directors, Member of Executive Committee: Uniform
Crime Reporting/NCIC Committee. Past Chairman: Urban County Sheriffs' Group, Past
Chairman: Legislative Committee, Chairman
National Organization for Victim Assistance: Law Enforcement Committee, Past Chairman
National Law Enforcement Policy Center Board, Bureau of Justice Assistance, U.S. Department of
Justice, Washington, D.C.: Past Member
U.S. Attorney's Law Enforcement Coordinating Committee
Uniform Crime Reporting Policy Advisory Board, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of
Justice, Washington, D.C.: Past Vice Chairman
National Institute of Justice National Forum: Participant, Corrections and the Private Sector,
Washington, D.C. 1985
National Institute of Mental Health Colloquium: Judge. The Aftermath of Crime - A Mental Health
Crisis, Washington, D.C., 1985
U.S. House of Representatives: Consultant, Sub Committee on Crime, Committee on Judiciary
U.S. House of Representatives: Consultant, Sub Committee on Trade. Committee on Ways and
Means
International Association of Chiefs of Police: Legislative Committee, Member
Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies: Commissioner
Community Policing Consortium, U.S. Department of Justice: Advisory Committee, Member
National Law Enforcement Technology Center, U.S. Department of Justice: Advisory Council,
Corrections and Detention Committee, Chairman
National Commission on Crime Control and Prevention: Member, 1995
PUBLICATIONS
"Accreditation. The Sheriff's Gem", The National Sheriff, February-March, 1989, pp. 36-38.
"Drug Legalization "NO", The National Sheriff, February-March, 1990. pp. 13-18.
RECOGNITIONS
"Resolution of Commendation". March 1989, Aurora City Council
"Citation of Heroism", April 1989. V.F.W. Post 9644, Ft. Logan, CO
"Award of Excellence, May 1989, George Washington Lodge No. 161, A.F. & A.M.
"Outstanding Association Community Service Award", May, 1989, Metropolitan State College Alumni
"Medal of Valor", June 1989, Arapahoe County Sheriff's Office
"Leadership Honor", June 1989, Arapahos County Bar Association
"1989 Citizen of the Year", South Suburban Board of Realtors
"Man of the Decade". 1989, Littleton Sentinel Independent Newspaper
One of the 10 "Outstanding Men of the Decade", Littleton Times Newspaper
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COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES
Littleton Breakfast Optimist Club
Vice Chairman, Board of Directors, Arapahoe Rescue Patrol Inc.
Chairman, Post Committee, Explorer Scouting Post #25 (ACSO Cadet Program)
Board of Directors, Arapahoe Task Force on Alcohol Problems, Inc.
Arapahoe County Community Corrections Board
Arapahos County Placement Alternatives Commission, Department of Social Services
PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENTS
In July of 1988 the Arapahoe County Sheriff's Office became the 11th sheriff's office and only
the 79th law enforcement agency to be nationally accredited under the 908 professional
standards as established by the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies. Inc.
In Colorado, the Arapahoe County Sheriff's Office is the first sheriff's office and the fourth law
enforcement agency to achieve this national recognition. Arapahoe County Sheriff's Office has
been subsequently rescredited.
in November 1989, the Arapshoe County Sheriff's Office Detention Division Medical Section
received the Certificate of Accreditation by the National Commission on Correctional Health Care.
Arapahoe County Sheriff's Office has been subsequently reaccredited.
In January 1991 the Arepahoe County Sheriff's Office Detention Division received Accreditation
Certificates on its two detention facilities by the Commission on Accreditation for Corrections and
the American Correctional Association. Arapahoe County Sheriff's Office has been subsequently
reaccredited.
In June 1993 the Arapahos County Sheriff's Office was one of only nine sheriffs' offices in the
country to receive the prestigious Triple Crown Award recognizing simultaneous accreditation by
the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies, the Commission on
Accreditation for Corrections, and the National Commission on Correctional Health Care.
This is the
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
Ron lathy whoye
July 3, 1997
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J. Ronald Lally, Ed. D.
Director
Center for Child & Family Studies
WestEd
180 Harbor Drive, Suite 112
Sausalito, CA 94965-2845
Dear Mr. Lally:
Thank you very much for your thoughtful letter and for sharing your ideas with us on the
White House Conference on Child Care. Thank you also for the copy of your video, "In Our
T
Hands," and the additional materials.
We regret that you were not able to join our recent discussion, but are grateful for your
ideas and offer of continued assistance. I understand that you will be in town shortly to
participate in the Child Care Bureau's Conference. Unfortunately, I will be out of town at that
time; however, my colleague, Jennifer Klein, Special Assistant to the President for Domestic
Policy, will contact you shortly to see if there is a mutually convenient time to meet to discuss
the White House Conference.
We look forward to working with you in the coming months.
Sincerely yours,
Nicole Rabner
Associate Director for Domestic Policy
cc:
Jennifer Klein
WestEd
June 19, 1997
Ms. Nicole Rabner
Office of the First Lady
The White House
Washington, D.C. 20502
Dear Ms. Rabner:
WestEd is a
I'm sorry that I can't participate in planning meeting for The White House Conference
public agency
uniting
on Childcare tomorrow. In fact it's impossible for me to make any of the three dates in
Far West
June.
Laboratory for
Educational
Research and
As you know I'm particularly concerned about the weaknesses of infant/toddler care in
Development
the United States. In April I sent to your office 2 copies of the video "In Our Hands".
and Southwest
Regional
With the help of a grant from the Ford Foundation that video and accompanying
Laboratory
documentation has been sent to the Governors of all the states and also to thousands of
key policy makers nationwide. It makes a few key points about possible damage and
Headquarters:
necessary components of care that might be helpful to you in the planning process.
San Francisco
I'm particularly concerned about the infancy period because there is so little quality
training in the United States and often the type of training has been inappropriate because
it's a watered down version of pre-school care. I would like you to consider as an
agenda item for the conference, a focus on the need for special training for the care of
infants. We need to help people understand that infant care isn't babysitting or pre-
school care but a special kind of care where the establishment of intimate connections
with a few people over an extended period of time is the basis for healthy intellectual
and emotional development. We need to help people see that the quality of infant care has
an impact on the formation of a child's first sense of self (i.e. learning ability, aggressive
inclinations etc.)
As you probably know we are currently putting trainers from all of the Early Head Start
sites through two solid weeks of training in the "Program for Infant/Toddler Caregivers"
to assist them in upgrading the level of infant/ toddler care at the local level. We are also
doing this with key trainers in the states of California, Illinois, Minnesota, North Dakota,
and South Dakota. It is my experience that extended efforts in training, supervision and
mentoring are desperately needed.
I'm attaching to this letter a couple of documents illustrating my concerns and another
copy of our video "In Our Hands" and it's accompanying booklet which addresses some
of the content issues that I would think need to be addressed at the conference.
180 Harbor Drive, Suite 112 Sausalito California 94965.2845 Two 415.331.5277 FAX: 415.331.0301
I am very eager to participate in planning in any way I can. I'll be in Washington D.C. on
July 14 to give a keynote address at the National Child Care Bureau Conference and will
be there through the 16th doing some work at Zero to Three. At that time I could
participate in any planning conversations that you might think appropriate.
Please feel free to call on me at my office. I'm looking forward to this conference. I
have been quite impressed by the impact that the brain development I attended in April
has had on the nations attention to young children. I hope that this conference will have
at least equal impact.
Sincerely,
J.Gonala Lally J. Ronald Lally, Ed. D.
Director
Center for Child & Family Studies
JRL/dae
Attachment
Women Labor Leader Invitees
for White House Child Care Conference Briefing
Monday, September 29, 1997
4:00-5:00 pm
Crime Prevention Council Conference Room, 736 Jackson Place
NAME
ORGANIZATION
DAY PHONE NO.
RSVP
Sue Golding
United Automobile, Aerospace & Agricultural Implement
(313) 926-5269
no
Carolyn Forrest, V.P.
Workers of America Intn'l Union
Carolyn Jacobsen
Bakery, Confectionary, & Tobacco Workers, Intn'l Union
(301) 933-8600
yes
Lela Foreman
Communications Workers of America
(202) 434-1128
yes
Royetta K. Sanford
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
(202) 728-6204
(jury duty)
Patricia Scarcelli
United Food & Commercial Workers International Union
(202) 223-3111 X1545
no
Kitty Peddicord
American Federation of Government Employees
(202)639-6417
yes
Carol Carlson
Hotel Employees & Restaurant Employees International
(218) 728-6861
no
Gloria Johnson
IUE and Coalition of Labor Union Women
(202) 785-7209
yes
Candice Main Rush
National Association of Letter Carriers
(202) 393-4695
yes
Cheryl Eastburn
Machinists
(301) 967-4750
yes
Anna Padia
The Newspaper Guild
(301) 585-2990
yes
Judy Beard
American Postal Workers Union
(202) 842-4225
yes
Delores Gorczyca
Int'l Fed. of Prof. and Tech. Engineers
(908) 866-0427
yes
Mary Moore
Steelworkers Union
(412) 562-2497
yes
Cathy Collette
American Federation of State, County & Municipal
(202) 429-5098
yes
Carolyn York
Employees
Carolyn Lauer
Service Employees International Union
(202) 898-3200
yes
Barbara Van Blake
American Federation of Teachers
(202) 879-4434
yes
Maria Elva Maldonado
International Brotherhood of Teamsters
(202) 624-8117
yes
Ann Hoffman
Union of Needletrades, Industrial & Textile Employees
(202) 347-7417/0734
no
Heather Hauke
Coalition of Labor Union Women
(202) 296-1200
no
Netzy Firestein
Labor Project for Working Families
(510) 643-6814
no
Karen Nussbaum
AFL-CIO
(202)637-5000
yes
Arlene Holt
AFL/CIO
(202) 637-5180
Claudia Wayne or
Marcy Whitbrook
Nat'l Center for Early Childhood Workforce
(202) 737-7700
Jane Danowitz
National Education Association
(202) 822-7337
Joanna Regan
Bricklayers
(202)783-3788
Evelyn Dubrow
UNITE!
(202) 347-7417
yes
Ida Castro
Women's Bureau, Dept. of Labor
(202) 219-6611
yes
Joan Lombardi
HHS Child Care Bureau
(202) 629-0257
yes
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LIFEWORK
STRATEGIES.INC
August 13, 1997
The President
The White House
Washington, D.C. 20500
Dear Mr. President:
I am writing to you in response to your announcement of the White House Conference on Child Care to
be held on October 23, 1997. As President and Chief Executive Officer of LifeWork Strategies, Inc., the
Washington-Baltimore region's leading provider of employer-sponsored child care consultation and referral
services, I am keenly aware of the importance of this conference.
Since 1990, LifeWork Strategies, Inc., has helped employers in Washington, D.C., Maryland and
Virginia build more productive workforces through work-life balance initiatives. We have counseled thousands
of working parents on child care options and taught them how to be good child care consumers so that they can
focus on their work. Our community development work has turned employer investments of almost one million
dollars into vastly improved child care for several thousand children across the region. 150 child care center staff
completed two days of interactive training on conflict resolution activities for children. The supply of trained
regulated family child care providers in Loudoun County, Virginia, increased in one year by 50%. Almost 300
teachers and providers attended a full day of training on caring for infants and toddlers.
Through my work with LifeWork Strategies and elsewhere, I have been closely involved with the issues
of child care and foster care for the last 15 years and have served in the following capacities: family child care
provider, parent counselor, counselor trainer, child care planner, and business consultant. I continue to advise
employers on family-supportive workplaces and their impact on productivity and profit and have written related
articles in the Work & Family Coalition Quarterly, published by the Metropolitan Washington Council of
Governments, and Small Business News. In addition to providing extensive project management work for the
American Business Collaboration, I currently sit on the Board of Directors of the Metropolitan Washington
Work/Life Coalition and the Advisory Board of the new national monthly, Work/Life Today, published by the
National Institute of Business Management.
I would like to participate in this conference and know that I have much to contribute to a new vision for
child care. I look forward to hearing from you. Thank you in advance for your consideration.
Sincerely,
Jackneline Smith
Jacqueline J. Smith
President
Enclosure
710 EAST GUDE DRIVE
SUITE A
ROCKVILLE. MD 20850
(301) 309-1466
FAX (301) 309-1992
JACQUELINE J. SMITH
5210 Russett Road
Rockville, Maryland 20853
(301) 460-3448
EXPERIENCE
LifeWork Strategies, Inc., Rockville, MD
President and Chief Executive Officer, August 1990 - present
Established the region's leading provider of employer-sponsored child care
consultation and referral services.
Provide extensive project management work for the American Business
Collaboration (ABC).
Led major expansion including an office relocation, procurement of information
technology systems, development of detailed regional database of 15,000+
regulated child care programs and providers.
Provide training and supervision to a staff of eighteen.
Opened and continue to operate a satellite office for W/FD at the World Bank in
Washington, D.C., providing local management and staff for in-person
consultations and group programs for the 10,000+ employees from more than
100 countries.
Launched Baltimore region service through expansion of staff and databases.
Assisted W/FD with the development of new models of service delivery.
Summary of organizational achievements: After three years became one of W/FD's top
volume and top quality affiliates, attaining highest level of customer satisfaction from
first quarter of service to W/FD clients. Recognized for quality of worksite seminars.
Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments (COG), Washington, D.C.
Senior Human Services Planner, September 1989 - June 1990
Child Care Program Assistant (pt), November 1988 - September 1989
Child Care Referral Specialist (pt), December 1987 - November 1988
As head of the child care and foster care programs for the association of local
governments, operated employer-sponsored referral service and staffed COG's Child Care
Network, a public-private partnership on child care. Responsibilities included managing
contracts and subcontracts, supervising staff, developing and presenting worksite
seminars and speeches, and coordinating monthly employer roundtables.
Child Care Connection, Inc., Rockville, MD
Child Care Referral Specialist (pt), October 1986 - December 1987
Counseled parents on child care options and coordinated a recruitment and
training program for family child care providers to care for school-age children.
Action Surveys, Inc., Rockville, MD
Personnel Trainer (pt), October 1985 - October 1986
Instructed new personnel in telephone interview skills such as appropriate voice,
presence, and speech.
North Country Community College, Saranac Lake, New York
Paul Smith's College, Paul Smiths, New York
Sociology Instructor (pt), 1981 - 1985
Taught Rural Sociology, Urban Sociology, Social Problems, and Introductory
Sociology; yearbook and student academic advisor.
Director of Student Activities (pt), 1980 - 1981 and 1976 - 1977
Planned and produced social and cultural activities for students.
Associate Director of Housing (pt), 1977 - 1979
Live-in residence director and personal counselor for female students. Led
trainings for resident assistants and orientation sessions for new students. Wrote
orientation handbook for incoming students.
Family Child Care Provider (pt), 1982 - 1985 and 1979 - 1980
Provided child care in my home for infants, preschoolers, and school-age children.
Town of Brighton, New York
Director of Senior Citizens (pt), 1978 - 1979
Organized senior citizen activities, wrote successful grant proposal for acquisition
of vehicle for senior use.
EDUCATION
1985
Master of Arts in Educational Studies, State University of New York at
Plattsburgh.
1975-1976
Graduate study in Sociology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Bachelor of Arts in Sociology. University of Massachusetts at
Amherst. Graduated magna cum laude in three years.
ACCKVILLE
POSTAGE
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MD
LIFEWORK
STRATEGIES. INC.
The President
The White House
Washington, D.C. 20500
710 EAST GUDE DRIVE, SUITE A
ROCKVILLE. MD 20850
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who is invited to this important and exciting conference.
Obviously, it would be an honor and of interest to me to be
among those attending the conference.
Again, thank you so much for supporting young children, their
families and early childhoood educators.
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Until we in America ascribe importance to the profession of
caring for children we will not have excellent childcare for
all children. I am extremely concerned that we spend more on
food for our pets than on education and care of our children.
We need massive education of our citizens to advocate for
comprehensive understanding of needs of children in order to
improve the care they provide for them. Childcare workers are
among the least educated and the lowest paid in our country.
There is little effort to change this reality. We need worker
standards for this profession the same as in
manufacturing/engineering,etc. This serious problem needs
more than passive attention. I applaud your efforts in behalf
of children and hope this conference will address the need to
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NACCRRA
National Association of Child Care
Resource and Referral Agencies
June 17, 1997
The President and Mrs. Clinton
The White House
1700 Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington, DC 20500
Dear Mr. President and Mrs. Clinton:
On behalf of NACCRRA and Child Care Aware, a partnership of leading nonprofit organiza-
tions, we applaud your efforts to bring national attention to child care through a White House
conference. Child care and early education are a part of daily life for millions of American
families with children. Obtaining stable, high-quality child care will be critical to the success
of parents leaving the welfare rolls to enter the workforce, and it will be a key factor in the
health and well-being of their children. Clearly, child care issues also affect companies and
even government agencies whose employees cannot be productive without the help of child care
they can rely on.
We would like to suggest a cooperative effort between your administration and Child Care
Aware to initiate a national Child Care Professional's Day, to be announced In conjunction with
your upcoming White House conference on child care. When we presented the idea to Joan
Lombardi, associate commissioner of the Child Care Bureau, she encouraged us to write to you
immediately. We urge you and your administration to take the lead in launching this special
day. Working with Child Care Aware to launch a day in honor of professional child care
providers will be an opportunity for you to continue building your legacy of commitment to
America's children.
Why create an annual Child Care Professional's Day?
The role of child care professionals in our children's early development cannot be under-
estimated. As Americans learned from the April 17 White House Conference on Early
Childhood Development and Learning, early care has decisive and long-lasting effects on
how children develop socially and academically, and how they cope with stress.
A solid partnership between parents and child care professionals is essential to the quality
of child care. Child Care Professional's Day will help parents understand and appreciate
the role of child care professionals, thereby strengthening this important partnership.
Professionalism-that is, training in early child development and education-is linked to
the quality of care that our children receive. Studies in the field show conclusively that
children do better in programs run by trained, licensed and accredited child care
professionals.
Without loving, trained child care professionals, millions of parents would not be able to
work and be productive, or complete their education. The availability of trained
professionals to care for our children cannot be separated from the state of our nation's
economy or from the success of welfare reform.
1319 F Street, NW
Ste 810
Washington, DC 20004-1106
Tel: (202) 393-5501 Fax: (202) 393-1109
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Child Care Professional's Day provides opportunities to showcase skilled, nurturing
providers and quality child care settings so that parents will know what to look for when
choosing child care.
Recognizing caregivers motivates them to stay in a field where demand vastly exceeds the
supply and where pay can be less than rewarding. Child Care Professional's Day, therefore,
will help ensure continuity of care, which is important to proper development in a child's
early years.
Child Care Professional's Day will energize more nurturing, capable people to become child
care professionals as welfare reform increases the need throughout the country.
Mr. President, we sincerely believe that you, Mrs. Clinton and your entire administration can
build on a legacy of commitment to families by leading the launch of a Child Care Professional's
Day. The partners of Child Care Aware in this venture include the National Association of
Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies, Child Care Action Campaign, Families and Work
Institute, the National Association for Family Child Care, and the National Association for the
Education of Young Children.
Most importantly, Child Care Aware has Identified a number of corporate and media partners
who share our vision of quality child care for all American families. To date, we have
partnership commitments from General Mills, maker of Cheerios and other nutritious food
brands, the General Mills Foundation, and Scholastic, the world's largest educational publisher.
We anticipate that other partners will join this effort, as well.
While Child Care Professional's Day is still in the conceptual stage, we envision a launch that
might include the following activities, and we would welcome your input:
The day would be established by Executive Order during the White House conference on
child care.
The day would occur annually on the last Friday in April, when most children are settled
into their child care programs and when no other holiday occurs.
To help generate publicity for the Executive Order, General Mills will sponsor a Cheerios
breakfast on the South Lawn for local area child care providers, children and parents on the
morning of the White House conference.
Child Care Aware will present you and Mrs. Clinton with an award in recognition of your
ongoing commitment to the future of America's children.
We would invite you to make an address focusing on the value of child care professionals who
are trained in early childhood development. (Please note: Child Care Aware is a nonprofit
initiative funded by corporate contributions and foundation grants. We do not sell or
administer child care training programs and have no financial interest in any program.)
Following the White House conference, we will promote Child Care Professional's Day through
the media, as well as on Cheerios boxes and in child care programs and schools. We also are
planning a series of local community events throughout the country to prepare for the day.
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Mr. President and Mrs. Clinton, we believe that you and your administration will see value in
developing a national Child Care Professional's Day to recognize exceptional child care
providers. Along with programs to support children and their parents, Child Care Professional's
Day completes your well-conceived effort to make sure that every child in America starts out
right, with the quality care they need to grow into happy, healthy and productive citizens.
As you read this letter, the Child Care Bureau is gathering support for your plans for the White
House conference on child care. Child Care Aware is offering to bring our corporate and media
partners together to launch Child Care Professional's Day in conjunction with the conference. Can
we count on you and Mrs. Clinton to lead the launch of this important day?
We appreciate your considering this suggestion. Again, we applaud your efforts to ensure the best
possible care for each and every one of America's children.
Sincerely,
Yasmia Viner
Yasmina Vinci
Tutti Sherlock
Director, National Association of
Board Chair
Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies
Child Care Aware
cc: Ms. Donna Shalala, Secretary, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Ms. Joan Lombardi, Associate Commissioner, Child Care Bureau
Background Note:
As the consumer education arm of America's network of over 550 child care resource and referral
programs, Child Care Aware worked with the Child Care Bureau to design a consumer education
leadership forum earlier this year. We also recently completed a manuscript for publication by
the Department of Health and Human Services detailing the successes of grass roots consumer
education programs initiated and funded by Child Care Aware.
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Catalogue of Child Care Conference Information
Jennifer Klein
Donna M. Klein
Director
Work/Life Programs
Marriott International
Marriott Drive
Washington, DC 20058
*letter
Rhea F. Starr
Child Care Advocate
YWCA of the USA
624 9th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001
*letter and packet
Sheryl Dicker
Executive Director
Permanent Judicial Commission on Justice for Children
c/o Pace University School of Law
78 North Broadway
White Plains, New York 10603
*letter and binder of info
Nancy Thompson
The Annenberg/ CPB Project
901 E Street, NW
Washington, DC 20004
*letter
Joyce E. Butler
395 Rochambeau Avenue
Providence, Rhode Island 02906
*letter
Karen A. Cowles
Communications Consortium Media Center
1200 New York Avenue, NW
Suite 300
Washington, DC 20005-1754
*letter and report
Kerby T. Alvy, Ph.D.
Executive Director
Center for the Improvement of Child Caring
11331 Ventura Blvd., Suite 103
Studio City, California 91604
*letter and packet
Ruby Takanishi
President
Foundation for Child Development
345 East 46 Street
New York, NY 10017-3562
*letter
Mildred M. Winter
Executive Director
Parents as Teachers National Center, Inc.
10176 Corporate Square Drive, Suite 230
St. Louis, Missouri 63132
*letter
Yasmina Vinci
Executive Director, NACCRRA
1319 F Street, NW, Suite 810
Washington, DC 20004-1106
*letter and packet
Tutti Sherlock
Board Chair, Child Care Aware
1319 F Street, NW, Suite 810
Washington, DC 20004-1106
*letter and packet
Giovanna Stark
Executive Director
Child Development Policy Advisory Committee
915 Capitol Mall, Room 336
Sacramento, CA 95814
*letter and report
Angela Crowley
Co-Chair, Child Care Special Interest Group
Yale University School of Nursing
100 Church Street South
PO Box 9740
New Haven, CT 06536-0740
*letter
Kristy Liles
Publicis Public Relations
3500 Maple Avenue
Dallas, TX 75219
*letter and packet
Augusta Souza Kappner
President
The Bank Street College of Education
610 West 112th St.
New York, NY 10025-1120
*letter and packet
Janet L. Mascia
Senior Evaluator
U.S. General Accounting Office
441 G Street, NW
Washington, DC 20548
*letter and seven reports
Carrie Wofford
200 Constitution Ave, NW, Room S3002
Washington, DC 20210
*Senate Hearing Info: Congressional Caucus for Women's Issues 0-3 Child Care Hearing
7/10/97
Kathleen Christensen
Program Officer
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
630 Fifth Avenue, Suite 2550
New York, NY 10111-0242
Sharon L. Kagan
Senior Associate
The Bush Center in Child Development
310 Prospect Street
New Haven, CT 06511-2188
*letter
Donald J. Borut
Executive Director
National League of Citites
1301 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20004
*letter, two newsletters, and one report
Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, Ph.D.
Center for Young Children and Families
Columbia University
525 West 120th Street
New York, NY 10027
*letter
Nicole Rabner
Carey Fleming
Director of Corporate Alliances
Work Life Benefits
539 Fernwood Road
Murrells Inlet, SC 29576
*letter
Roger H. Brown
Chief Executive Officer
Bright Horizons Children's Centers
One Kendall Square, Building 200
Cambridge, MA 02139
*letter
Rosemary Jordano
President
Children First Inc.
One International Place
Boston, MA 02110
*letter and packet
Dee Topol
President
The Travelers Foundation
388 Greenwich Street
New York, NY 10013
*letter
Claudia E. Wayne
National Center for the Early Childhood Work Force
733 15th Street, NW, Suite 1037
Washington, DC 20005-2112
*letter and packet
Lynn L. White
Executive Director, NCCA
1016 Rosser Street
Conyers, GA 30207
*packet and letter
Charles R. Romeo
Director, Employee Benefits
Con Agra Refrigerated Foods Companies
2000 South Batavia Avenue
Geneva, IL 60134
*letter
Anna S. Wadia
Senior Program Officer
Ms. Foundation for Women
120 Wall Street, 33rd Floor
New York, NY 10005
*letter and packet
Ellen Clippinger
President
National School-Age Care Alliance
4720 North Park
Indianapolis, IN 46205
*letter and packet
Madeline Fried
Fried & Sher, Inc.
465 Carlisle Drive
Herndon, VA 20170
*letter and book
Stacie G. Goffin
Senior Program Officer
Youth Development
Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
4900 Oak
Kansas City, Missouri 64112-2776
*letter
Deborah Lowe Vandell
NICHD Study of Early Child Care
Wisconsin Center for Education Research
University of Wisconsin School of Education
1025 West Johnson Street
Madison, WI 53706
*letter and packet
Martha Farrell Erickson, Ph.D.
Director of Children, Youth, and Family Consortium
University of Minnesota
12 McNeal Hall
1985 Buford Avenue
St. Paul, MN 55108
*letter
Matthew E. Melmed
Executive Director, Zero to Three
734 15th Street, NW, Suite 1000
Washington, DC 20005-1013
*letter and report
Margaret M. Petruska
Senior Program Officer and Director HHS Programs
The Heinz Endowments
30 CNG Tower
625 Liberty Avenue
Pittsburg, PA 15222-3115
*letter
Kathy Bonk
Executive Director, CCMC
1200 New York Avenue, NW, Suite 300
Washington, DC 20005-1754
*letter and packet
Helen Blank
Director, Child Care Division
Children's Defense Fund
25 E Street, N.W.
Washington, DC 20001
Harriet Meyer
Executive Director
The Ounce of Prevention Fund
122 South Michigan Avenue, Suite 2050
Chicago, IL 60603
*letter
Caroline Zinsser
Rockefeller Brothers Fund
1290 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10104-0233
*letter
Laurie Ollhoff
Educational Coordinator of the School-Age Care Programs
Concorcia College
275 Syndicate Street North
St. Paul, MN 55104-5494
*letter and packet
Other
Susan B. Kerr
Ronald Mc Donald House Charities
Kroc Drive
Oak Brook, IL 60523
*packet
Jeffrey H. Cohen
Director of Corporate Development
Sylvan Learning Systems, Inc.
1000 Lancaster Street
Baltimore, MD 21202
*letter and packet
Deborah Phillips
*letter and study on The Future of Child Care
reports:
Financing Child Care in the United States: An Illustrative Catalog of Current Strategies
by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and the Pew Charitable Trust
Making Work Pay in the Child Care Industry bythe National Center for the Early
Childhood Work Force
The 1997 California Child Care Portfolio
articles:
The Impact of Child Care Policies and Practices on Infant/Toddler Identity
Formation by J. Ronald Lalley
Giving Children a Strong Start: Effective Early Childhood Education Policy in the
States by Louise Stoney
Building and Maintaining an Effective Child Care/Early Education System in Your
State
other:
draft of article for Working Mother Magazine
packet from Crystal Stairs
videotapes:
Resource for Infant Educarers: See How They Move
The Child Care Group: ABC World News Tonight with Peter Jennings
"Solutions" segment: Relationship-Centered Child Care
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
August 19, 1997
Sharon L. Kagan
Senior Associate
The Bush Center in Child Development
310 Prospect Street
New Haven, CT 06511-2188
Dear Ms. Kagan:
Thank you very much for your letter and for sharing
your invaluable advice on the White House Conference on
Child Care. We greatly appreciate your guidance and
expertise as we continue to develop the themes and the
direction of the Conference.
We look forward to working with you in the coming
months as we continue to plan the conference.
Sincerely yours,
jumper
Jennifer Klein
Special Assistant to the
President for Domestic
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CHILD CARE
A summary of focus groups
"This is a point in history a critical one"
In April, the President announced that a White House
Conference on Child Care would be held in the fall of 1997. In
June, six focus groups were held to gather ideas to help plan the
conference and overall strategy. More than 65 child care experts,
representatives of national organizations, foundations and
corporations participated in these discussion sessions.
Participants were asked a series of questions including:
What was your initial reaction to
the conference announcement?
What is the most important
outcome we should seek from
the conference?
What is the one thing that the
Administration could do to help
promote affordable, quality
care?
The following is a summary of the key messages,
outcomes and conference program ideas suggested by the focus
group participants. Notes from each of the six sessions are also
attached.
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Messages about child care
"This is not a women's issue, it is a workforce issue"
"Education is a journey, but we send kids out without gas in the car"
Three or four themes emerged from the focus groups about the overall child care
message.
Child Care is one of the central issues of our time. In a fully employed
society of the 2lst Century, we must address the issue of caring for
children while parents work. Poor quality care, unreliable child care
arrangements are experienced as a silent, personal crisis by many
families, rather than a societal crisis.
We need to recast the child care issue. Child Care is about economics
and education- it is about workforce development and child
development. One participant put it this way, "Child care is a competitive
edge issue in the global market place. good child care is competitive
business." Many suggested that we build upon the brain research to
advance the image of child care as crucial to school readiness and
long-term academic achievement.
Child care is important to all families. Child care is a universal need-
not a welfare issue. Without child care the country cannot work. A
quality, affordable child care system benefits everyone.
Outcomes
"We need a Marshall Plan for child care"
This must be more than a one-day conference. It should launch both
short-term actions to build momentum and a long-term process for
moving child care forward, including federal policy changes and
legislative commitments for new investments.
We must have a clear vision of the goal:
"Every community should have a continuum of quality care from infancy through
adolescence to meet the needs of children of working families."
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Governors, mayors and the private sector must be challenged to
help meet the goal in every State and community. Child care is
everyone's responsibility. Neither parents nor the federal government can
do it alone. Everyone should leave the conference with something
specific that they can do.
The federal government should set an example by looking at the
opportunities to enhance and expand child care across agencies.
Parents must learn to recognize quality child care and to demand it,
to create demand-side pressure for change. However, the conference
must be sensitive to the fact that quality is both expensive for some
parents and in short supply in many communities. Parents should not be
made to feel terrified or guilty about the arrangements that they can
provide for their children.
The most critical issue is how we can finance a high quality, affordable
accessible system for all children who need it. A long term plan must be
established to finance the full cost of quality so that families can afford
good care and child care providers do not have to subsidize the cost of
quality through low wages. As one participant put it, "Let's finally wrestle
the finance bear to the ground."
General Conference Program Ideas
Nontraditional allies with new resources should be invited, rather
than the usual child care constituency. As one participant put it, "The
conference will accomplish nothing if it merely preaches to the
converted." Participants should include civic leaders, educators, law
enforcement, health professionals, religious leaders and the business
community. Parents should be included in the presentations. "Child care
is everyone's business and everyone must own it."
The conference should be made accessible to the general public
with viewing throughout the country. The conference needs to reach a
broad audience of parents and providers, as well as targeting a private
sector audience. There should be satellite hook-up all across the country.
The conference should emphasize strengths and solutions, but
should avoid advancing very specific models that may be difficult to
replicate due to expense or varying community circumstances. Models
should be used where they point to universal principles that are essential
for a successful child care system anywhere.
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White House Conference Focus Group
June 18, 1997
Participants:
Helen Blank, Children's Defense Fund
Jeannie Brooks-Gunn, Columbia University
Ellen Clippinger, National School Age Care Alliance
Lynn Kagan, Yale University
Tonlee Rich?, National Head Start Association
Claudia Wayne, National Center for the Early Childhood Workforce
Janet Wise, National Indian Child Care Association
First Thoughts Upon Hearing of the Conference:
"This better be more than an event."
This is a good opportunity for the nation to think
systemically and consider the infrastructure required to
support quality
This should have a durable impact. It is a "kickoff" of
something larger and not an end in itself.
Message Recommendations:
The current lack of high quality, affordable, accessible
care is a societal problem; it is not an individual consumer
problem. Parents are not alone in their struggles with
their child care arrangements.
Early care and education occur at every moment in a child's
life. Although not every child is in a child care setting
every child receives care. Every person has a stake in all
of the children of the society and the care that is given
them.
Frame the initiative/challenge/expenditures as a
"Downpayment on America's Future,' which encompasses the
idea that spending money, time, and effort on children early
has positive outcomes for the country later.
Child care is not just a problem for poor people. People of
all income levels struggle with child care arrangements.
Quality matters. Quality has an impact on both short-term
and long-term outcomes for children.
Quality child care is synonymous with quality early care and
education.
Providing quality child care is a professional skill.
America must value the work of caregivers and pay them a
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living wage. Quality cannot be ensured until we reach this
goal.
Resources are required to bridge the gap between what
parents are able to pay and the full cost of providing
quality child care.
Child care encompasses the need for care from birth through
adolescence. "It's not just preschool."
High quality, reliable child care arrangements improve the
productivity of parents in the workforce, while investing in
the development of the workforce of the future.
American children have a right to a safe and healthy
environment.
Strategy Recommendations:
Make this a White House/Presidential acknowledgment of a
major societal problem upon which he intends to launch a
vision for the future and extensive plan of action.
[Participant cited the recent race initiative as example.]
Assemble the best minds to envision the universal,
integrated early care and education system that our nation
should have twenty years from now. It should include
diversified funding streams and delivery systems.
Have the President "show good faith" with an immediate
action (such as more Federal dollars) and challenge the
Governors to do likewise (see below), while announcing an
initiative to examine and address the larger issues with a
larger, long-term focus (e.g. a Commission).
Have the President issue a challenge to the Nation's
Governors to address this issue with resources and 10 year
strategic plans. Have a few Governors "buy in" early and
announce their commitments at the conference. Also enlist
tribal leaders and mayors. [Noted tie to the National
Education Goal #1.]
Follow the one-day White House conference featuring the
President and First Lady with a think tank conference to
more fully hash out the issues.
Provide satellite downlinks for people to watch around the
nation, followed by local, on-site panels to further address
the issues. [Participants cited " WH Brain Conference"
example.]
Maximize media coverage. Time it to coincide with an event
that will garner more media coverage (i.e. Back-to-School,
Thanksgiving's family focus, another announcement or event)
Use regional conferences throughout the country to follow up
on the WH conference.
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Pilot a completely comprehensive model that would install
all of the pieces that have been proven to work into one
community or State.
Conference Program Recommendations:
Do not focus on models. There is no comprehensive American
model that addresses all parts of the need. Large
initiatives, like statewide or citywide commitments of
resources should be cited, but they should be presented in
the context of a larger vision. [NC, IL, and Kansas City
were mentioned. International models were mentioned.]
Focus on caregivers. The conference should address training
(tied to compensation), wages and benefits, turnover, and
professional recognition. Recognize that all of these
elements are linked: trained entrants into the profession
often leave quickly because there are few wage and benefit
incentives to remaining in the child care field. This cycle
makes it difficult to build a skilled, stable, professional
workforce.
Include a panel with a center-based provider, a home
provider, a relative provider, etc. and ask them to speak
about their experiences.
Build credibility with parents by focusing on their needs
and including them in the program (e.g., on a panel or in
dialogue with caregivers and employers). Strong parent
involvement is necessary to have buy-in and the commitment
of resources from multiple sectors of society.
Focus on helping parents understand the elements of quality
(e.g. through parent education, consumer education, and peer
mentoring). Help parents feel ownership of their child care
arrangements, learn to partner with caregivers, and learn to
pursue high expectations of caregivers and settings.
Include employers and the business community, but recognize
that most working women are employed by small employers who
do not have the resources to provide on-site child care. Be
flexible and avoid a "one size fits all" approach for
business participation. Encourage them to advocate for
child care resources with their local, State, and Federal
governments. Encourage them to think strategically about how
child care impacts them and how they can contribute to
improvement.
Explore the connection between child care and the global
economy.
Emphasize that child care is a community problem that
requires active community participation to address.
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Recognize, however, that every community is different and
have different levels of resources to address the problem.
Focus on the importance of regulations and standards.
Participant noted that we expect barbers to be licensed, but
millions of children are in unregulated child care.
Concerns:
Several participants expressed concern over the narrow
connotations attached to the term "child care. " They wanted
a broader term that encompassed child development, early
care and education, the inclusion of children with
disabilities, cultural diversity issues, and a recognition
of care needs from infancy through adolescence.
Do not terrify parents and families about the current poor
quality of many child care settings or the unavailability of
quality, affordable care.
Do not make parents feel guilty about the kind of care that
they are currently able to provide for their children.
Emphasize that this is a systemic breakdown, not a personal
failure.
Some of the ambivalence around child care is rooted in
societal ambivalence about mothers in the workforce. We
need to be careful about the message that may be sent (or
perceived to have been sent) about this issue.
Some Welfare to Work initiatives are eroding the value of
caregiving as a profession by implying that anyone can do
child care and that it requires no special skills or
training.
Some States are allowing TANF dollars to be spent on child
care without standards, which removes part of the incentive
for providers to be licensed and puts some providers in
financial jeopardy because parents are choosing cheaper,
unregulated care.
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White House Conference Focus Group
June 20, 1997
Participants:
Ellen Galinsky, Families and Work Institute
Melinda Green, Child Care Connection, Trenton, NJ
Barbara Kamara, District of Columbia Dept. of Human Services
Roberta Malavenda, Save the Children
Carole Porterman, Detroit CCCC
Nancy Sconyers, National Association of Child Advocates
Tutti Sherlock, Minnesota Resource & Referral Network
Gail Solit, Gallaudet University Child Development Center
Barbara Willer, NAEYC
Alice Walker-Duff, Crystal Stairs, Los Angeles, CA
First Thoughts Upon Hearing of the Conference:
"They can't really be serious-this Fall! It's about time."
Curious about target audience and outcomes.
"Wouldn't it be wonderful if the highest level of government
embraced child care?"
Message Recommendations:
Educated consumers are needed to help drive quality.
Parents must understand the importance of their choices.
We must respect the diversity of families.
Accessible, affordable, quality child care is vital to
economic stability and long-term productivity.
Our current subsidy system is not even meeting the need to
fund the poor quality system that we currently have, let
alone the quality system that we should aspire to.
Avoid any messages that seem to imply that government should
"take over raising kids."
Strategy Recommendations:
Develop new funding streams. Although the public sector
must do more, it cannot realistically do everything. Use
Presidential leadership, tax credits, collective financing
strategies, and incentives, to get more people to the table
with resources.
Make the event a launching pad for action with a major
Presidential initiative around resources and quality.
Use the event to build the political will for money and
quality.
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Follow a Renaissance Weekend type of format to foster
creative thinking. Avoid simply bringing together the
standard group of child care constituents who already
regularly speak with and "lecture" one another.
Establish community child care mobilization and planning
money for local organization. Model it on the Empowerment
Zones.
Have every Cabinet agency examine its programs' interaction
with child care.
Launch a task force on financing with a Presidential
commitment to follow-up on recommendations.
Institute a Marshall Plan for child care.
Disseminate widely on videotape the parts of the program
that are relevant to parents to be used in Head Start, child
care consumer ed, and parent ed programs.
Consider expanding the CCDF, because it provides a strong,
pre-existing legislative framework with a streamlined
approach to child care.
Build on the wave of devolution to the States to challenge
and inspire the governors and mayors to sign on. Stress
intergovernmental linkages.
Get more quality money to the States, because the quality
set-aside was reduced in CCDF.
Parallel the need for and future development of early
childhood education with universal public education. Note
that some participants felt that this was a real danger
politically and doesn't resonate with parents when tested in
focus groups.
Have a webpage in conjunction with the conference.
Issue an Executive Order to institute National Child Care
Professional Recognition Day. One participant expressed that
parents have often requested a provider recognition day.
Another expressed concern that it might simply be a token
day.
Have breakfast on the WH lawn for parents and providers.
Build on the brain conference with a second round of media
attention and local implementation and awareness work.
Conference Program Recommendations:
Build a strong foundation with a clearly articulated
Presidential vision.
Bring people together to figure out how to generate the $100
billion that we need for child care.
Use a two-pronged approach: one part for parents, one part
for policy makers.
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Take exceptional care about HOW we talk to parents. Use
language that reflects the way that they think and talk
about child care (cited brain conference, Child Care Aware
focus groups.)
Focus on resources. Even if parents have adequate consumer
ed information about quality, they cannot purchase it if it
is not affordable and the resources are not available.
Use parents' voices. They are often ahead of the field in
"militance and dissatisfaction with the child care status
quo." They also describe quality most eloquently.
Highlight principles from around the country. Look for
pockets of excellence.
Avoid small, narrow models that might be bound in a
particular community's circumstance.
Celebrate and promote community-based solutions. Don't
advocate a one approach which may not fit all communities'
needs.
Focus on building a number of child care constituencies.
Don't simply rely on the private sector.
Focus on the early childhood workforce issues, including
training tied to compensation, wage issues, benefit issues.
Be mindful of the full range of providers, including family
child care and Head Start.
Look at the issue from the perspective of children,
families, providers, business, and communities and examine
how the needs are similar or different.
Address the huge infant need.
Ground content, recommendation, and actions in the context
of data and information.
Focus on accreditation to build and recognize quality. Think
about national standards.
Address racism and gender issues in child care. Have
presenters and invitees who represent the diversity of
people affected by child care. Consider language issues and
the need for the program to be culturally sensitive to a
variety of groups.
Highlight the Federal government as a model employer on
child care issues.
Concerns:
"If you say the word 'quality' to policymakers, their eyes
glaze over."
The fact that child care programs have been administered by
human services agencies, rather than education agencies, has
reinforced the idea that child care is just for poor people.
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Be careful about addressing affordability issues, mindful of
the fact that TANF and working families with low-incomes
compete for the limited resources.
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White House Conference Focus Group
June 23, 1997
Participants:
Joyce Butler, National Child Care Association
Deborah Eaton, National Association for Family Child Care
Abbey Griffin, Zero to Three
Janice Gurney, American Academy of Pediatrics
Bruce Hershfield, Child Welfare League of America
Charlene Mohamed (for Billie Young)
Evelyn Moore, National Black Child Development Institute
Billie Osbourne-Fears, Starting Point for Child Care & Early
Education
Carol Phillips, National Council on Early Childhood Professional
Recognition
Julie Quaid, Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation
Susan Russell, Day Care Services Association, NC
Michelle Seligson, School Age Child Care Project, Wellesley
Heather Weiss, Harvard Family Research Project
First Thoughts Upon Hearing About the Conference:
"This should be about quality, not quantity"
What will be achieved? There had better be an outcome.
We need to generate "a clearer idea of what child care is
and how it fits into the American landscape."
We should change the nature of the discourse on child care
by looking at it from the child's point of view.
Hope it is more substance and not a few flashy models that
will not be able to play out in other communities, because
of different community characteristics.
"It's about time. We can't do it alone. We have nothing to
deal with training and supply in a real way."
Message Recommendations:
Public investment in children needs to start earlier.
Child care and early education are synonymous.
Child Care is an investment with great returns in both the
short and the long-run.
Child care is about self-sufficiency and taking care of
yourself and your family.
The working poor are left out of the system.
Parents should not feel guilty about child care. People
should be able to feel good about working.
Child care supports families' and parents' role in child
development.
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The current healthy economy is a rationale for why we can
make this is a good time to make an investment in capacity
building. The healthy economy also can be cited for driving_
child care demand, by virtue of high employment rates.
If we decide as a Nation that every able-bodied person must
work, we must consider who will mind the children. If we
don't we will pay for it in the child abuse and neglect
system, the foster care system, and the juvenile justice
system.
Strategy Recommendations:
Parlay the conference into more than a one day event.
Use technology to create a real-time broadcast. (See CNN's
"Talk Back Live.
Don't preach to the converted. Address the whole
population, including people without children. Engage
parents who haven't yet gotten the message and bring in
business leaders and State and local public officials who
haven't yet embraced a child care agenda.
Establish a commission to push the agenda on a powerful
level.
Introduce a specific legislative package. Use a "disaster
relief" approach in the short run, in conjunction with a
long-term strategic plan, including legislation and outcome
measures.
A legislative package might include: training scholarships;
links to higher education; recommended voluntary health,
safety, and quality standards; incentive money to build
capacity via grants or loans; revision of the Dependent Care
Tax Credit with expansion and refundability. Build in
different funding streams include funds and incentives to
parents, businesses, and providers.
Examine current regulations and funding guidelines in the
housing and community development arenas to remove barriers
to using those funds for community child care.
Use the bully pulpit to market the message and raise the
dialogue through town hall meetings, hearings, etc., on the
State and local levels.
Open a high quality child care center with comprehensive
services in the most economically depressed neighborhood in
America and call it the "President's Child Care Center."
Conference Program Recommendations:
Put child care in the context of the larger economy of
women, families, work, and welfare reform, so it no longer
conjures up babysitting in people's minds.
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Place this in the historical context of the WH decennial
conferences on children.
Include the both the economic and child development aspects
of child care.
Link provider education and training to compensation. Keep
quality linked to supply; push for good child care, not just
more child care.
Focus on the most critical things to be done, because there
are so many dimensions to the current child care situation.
Focus on building infrastructure. There is inadequate
infrastructure to support the current inadequate supply,
much less to grow the system, improve the quality, or
accommodate increased need from welfare reform.
Highlight the most important infrastructure issues which are
the development of human and financial resources. Look at
the Making the Most of Out-of-School Time Initiative (MOST)
for insight into how communities can build infrastructure.
Approach the issue from a strengths perspective. Balance
current issues and concerns with historical context and
successful models, and the strengths of the profession.
Do not highlight models without a broad-based frame of
vision that can be expressed as legislation and a sense of
movement toward a larger goal.
Push toward universal child care in America, to unify us and
produce a broader base of care. Until we do, resources will
remain in jeopardy. Another participant expressed concern
about the political unfeasibility of a "universal" focus.
Don't leave parents hanging with no follow-up. After the
brain conference, parents were eager to seek advice and
follow-up, but too few mechanisms existed for it.
Concerns:
Supply issues are more critical than ever. As people come
off of welfare, the competition between the lower income
people and the working poor for child care resources is
going to intensify. When people leave welfare and join the
working poor, will they lose the ability to pay for quality
child care?
Quality disparities may come to a head between people with
very low incomes and the working class. As Head Start
institutes performance measures and Early Head Start, there
is not enough quality in the child care system to supply the
working poor and wrap around Early Head Start.
Some participants expressed concern that any attempt to
establish national performance standards would lead to the
demise of a legislative package or major strategic plan.
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White House Conference Focus Group
June 25, 1997
Participants:
Randy Botnick, Benton Foundation
Kathleen Christenson, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Deanna Gombey, David and Lucille Packard Foundation
Mary Larner, David and Lucille Packard Foundation
Michael Levine, Carnegie Corporation of New York
Luba Lynch, A.L. Mailman Family Foundation
Marge Petrusca, The Howard Heinz Endowment
Linda Rich, Pew Charitable Trusts
Pam Stevens, Dewitt-Wallace, Reader's Digest Fund
Ruby Takaneshi, Foundation for Child Development
Dee Topol, Traveler's Foundation
First Thoughts Upon Hearing of the Conference:
"Send me the money. If a program could be initiated to bring
the needed resources, that would be the top priority. We
need to help families pay for quality, rather than have the
Early childhood workers subsidize it. (This is the] one
main thing that has escaped us as funders. We have put a lot
of money on the table together, but it hasn't reached the
core problem."
"Great opportunity to get the point across that quality
matters and there is going to be an economic imperative
because of welfare reform."
"This is bigger than a women's issue. It's a workforce
issue."
"It's the money, stupid."
Message Recommendations:
The President should lay out the following facts for the
American people: Women are going to work. Millions of
children and adolescents have no care and supervision. We
must do something about the situation.
We must do a number of things simultaneously to address
workforce development, child development, and current
workforce needs.
It is a travesty that, while our economy requires two
parents to work to support a family, we haven't taken
responsibility for the healthy care and development of
working people's children.
Working people are the most disadvantaged in the system.
The difference between success and failure in community
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experiments has been the availability of adequate resources.
Subsidy alone will not beget quality unless an
infrastructure is in place to support quality.
Strategy Recommendations:
Bring more broadly-based constituents to the table than the
traditional child care constituents. Give air time to the
nontraditional players.
Recognize that it is critical that the efforts be
bipartisan. Enlist both Democratic and Republican
governors, many of whom are already doing extraordinary
things.
Introduce legislation to shift the Federal, State, and local
funding to realign the current funding structure so that
costs are shared between 10-20% private, 10-20% parents
fees, business contribution. Currently, too much is paid by
parents and subsidized by child care workers via their low
wages.
Assemble the best economic and public policy minds to
address the following question honestly: "Where do we get
the money that child care workers currently subsidize?"
Encourage systems reform and structural change so that
communities can institute coalition-building and integrated
systems. Provide planning money and use community leaders to
let communities take charge and drive designs to increase
quality and supply.
Spark public private partnerships that focus on three or
four primary aspects of quality.
Launch a national campaign like the teenage pregnancy
prevention campaign.
Launch a BIG IDEA like the New Deal or the War on Poverty.
Don't get 50 lost in details that the thread of the big
picture is lost.
Establish a commission funded with blended public and
private resources. One participant suggested that the
research has been and is being done already and should be
assembled BEFORE the conference and analyzed before or
during the conference, in lieu of a commission to perform
this function afterwards. Another participant expressed
that commission recommendations are often not implemented,
due to changing political climates and/or administrations.
Advocate two or three big strategies like universally funded
Head Start, universal pre-K education with wrap-around child
care, and the mobilization of the business community.
Analyze the entire picture of Federal child care support,
including tax credits, and determine to whom the money is
flowing for what purposes. Determine if the results reflect
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strong priorities and most appropriate distribution of
Federal funds.
Build a quality infrastructure by linking with welfare to
work initiatives, the National Service movement, workforce
development programs, and higher education.
Examine Federal regulations to determine how they can be
tightened to support quality. Link funding to quality
standards. Several participants, though, expressed concern
about national standards, and suggested using the private
early childhood organizations to promulgate standards.
Conference Program Recommendations:
Broaden the message to include pre-adolescents and
adolescents who are spending more and more time
unsupervised. Demographics will lead to a large cohort of
adolescents in the near future.
Focus on the economics of child care, like increased
productivity and workforce development. One California
county cost out the economic benefits of child care to the
community and they were equal to the largest agricultural
crops in the county.
Validate the issue and take it out of the realm of the "soft
issues.' In the brain conference this was done by lending
the import of scientists. Consider business representatives,
economists, scientists, and parents.
Focus on the outcomes of poor supervision and care.
Talk about quality in a way that does not employ too much
professional jargon.
Focus on the plight of the child care worker and the degree
to which early childhood is valued (or undervalued) as a
profession. Discuss the women's business aspect of child
care (e.g., microlending and microenterprise).
Combat the perception that child care is only about poor
children and families. The public perception is that child
care only has to do with a small portion of the population.
Explore the intersection between child care and Head Start.
Explore the intersection between child care and family
leave.
Concerns:
It may be too difficult to send one coherent message if we
focus on two vulnerable populations at once: young children
and youths. One participant proposed that it deal
specifically with younger children. Another participant
responded that infancy through adolescence should be viewed
as a continuum.
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White House Focus Group
June 27, 1997
Participants:
Margaret Browning, Mentor Graphics
Ted Childs, IBM
Michael Day, Bright Horizons
Madeline Fried, Fried & Sher
Dana Friedman, Corporate Family Solutions
Rosemary Jordano, Children First, Inc.
Chris Kjeldsen, Johnson and Johnson
Donna Klein, Marriott International
Mary Kay Leonard, Work Family Institute
Barbara Reisman, Schumann Fund
Charles Romeo, Con Agra
First Thoughts Upon Hearing about the Conference:
This could be an important next step after the brain
conference to "do something serious in this country about
child development and parent education."
Need to have a bold initiative on public policy.
Are we ready for this after 30 years of talking about it?
Can we air our dirty laundry in public? Can we build the
public will to do what we need to do?
What we've been doing and how we have been talking about it
has not worked. How can we position the issue differently?
Message Recommendations:
The President could build on his message of two more years
of post-secondary ed, by emphasizing two more years of
education before children enter elementary school.
We must get the schools ready for the child and the child
ready for the schools. Education is a journey and setting
the child out on the journey without good early care and
education is like trying to start without gas in the car.
We must resolve to move toward a national system of
affordable child care for the masses. However, a national
system does not equal a national delivery system.
It is unacceptable for an American child to come to
Kindergarten not ready to learn. This is a war and we're
going to win it.
"Good child care is competitive business." We must view
this as a part of America's competitive spirit and a
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necessity to give us the competitive edge in the global
marketplace.
One of our country's fundamental principles is that we must
educate our people to have an informed, responsible citizens
in our democracy, yet we fail to build on our principles
when we neglect the education of children from infancy.
Child care is not babysitting. All providers, from
relatives to center-based providers, are teachers.
Strategy Recommendations:
Establish a process out in the field to prepare for the
conference by running focus groups all over the country,
lining up partners in communities, etc.
Position the President as the "Working Family President" and
link this initiative with the Family and Medical Leave Act,
EITC, etc.
Work with the Cabinet Secretaries (Daley, Shalala, and
Hermann were mentioned) as a group to act on the cross-
cutting issues around work, family, and child care. Have
them lead the way by streamlining Federal child care
activities and setting an example for the private sector.
Use the Presidential bully pulpit to maximal effectiveness
by building public will to support related legislation.
Focus on employers, large, small, and ambivalent. Recognize
that they fall on a continuum with regard to how far they
have addressed the child care (work/family) agenda. Don't
just focus on the employers who are already partners.
Use CEO's who were in child care as children to deliver the
message. Dollars tend to follow business leaders.
Focus on funding. Don't be shy to talk about funding as an
issue.
Establish a child care investment fund, using the
administrative skill and investment knowledge of the private
sector. Make it a public/private partnership possibly
through matching of community investments.
Encourage business leaders to integrate their current
programs into a multilateral approach to the
work/family/child care issues. For instance, have the
priorities of the corporate foundation in line with the
employee initiatives in the human resource area and family-
focused public relations campaigns.
Leverage off of K-12 involvement and support programs
already underway in the corporate sector. Incorporate child
care into the various programs like "Adopt-A-School"
programs.
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Have a concrete product that comes out of the conference.
Provide earmarked student loans for early childhood
education and training. Provide loan abatement or lower
interest rate incentives to those who remain in the field 3--
-
4 years.
Maximize the use of our infrastructure by mandating that
school buildings remain open full day/full year. Provide
state and local governments with strategies to finance the
extra hours (e.g., allowing community groups to use the
space.)
Change the perception of providers by recognizing leading
teachers in the field, especially young teachers, to
showcase quality and change the professional image.
Link every other Presidential initiative to young children
and working families.
Conference Program Recommendations:
Link early childhood to K-12 education agenda.
Focus on how to build a more cohesive system with partners
in a variety of sectors.
Explore ways to recruit and retain good people in the field.
It gets harder every year to attract talented people and
harder to retain them.
Focus on child care as a continuum from infancy through
adolescence.
Concerns:
If you preach to the converted, you will accomplish nothing.
The private sector models that are currently underway are
primarily for families that can afford to pay. The private
sector needs better strategies for dealing with low-wage
workers.
The military model does not work in the private sector
because it relies to heavily on universal subsidy and lacks
the element of competition that is central to the private
employer.
When linking with other systems, be aware that many delivery
systems, especially school systems, are ineffective with
families because they fail to understand cultural/linguistic
diversity.
Don't advocate a one-size-fits-all approach. Some
communities may have strong school/educational systems on
which to build, while others have a strong network of
community-based organizations.
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Be aware of the potential to increase tension between those
who can afford to pay and those who cannot.
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White House Conference Focus Group
June 30, 1997
Participants:
Larry Aber, National Center for Children in Poverty
Judy Appelbaum, National Women's Law Center
Doug Baird, Associated Day Care, Boston
Barbara Bowman, Erikson Institute
John Brooks, YMCA of the USA
Barbara Clinton, Vanderbilt Center for Health Services
Angela Crowley, Nat'l Assoc. of Pediatric Nurse Associates &
Practitioners
Jerlean Daniel, Univ. of Pittsburgh & NAEYC
Elaine Fersh, Parents United for Child Care
Nancy Kolben, Child Care, Inc., New York
Anne Mitchell, Early Childhood Policy Research
Patty Siegel, Calif. Child Care Resources & Referral Network
Sandra Skolnik, Maryland Committee for Children
Rhea Starr, YWCA of the USA
Bernice Weissbourd, Family Focus and Family Resource Center
Lynn White, National Child Care Association
First Thoughts Upon Hearing About the Conference:
"
How do we go from dialogue to action?"
"
An opportunity will be missed if it is just a conference.
There must be a strong follow-on plan.'
" Will he include school-aged children?"
"
How will he sell it to the country?"
"
This is a point in a long history, but a critical one."
Message Recommendations:
Working families in America use child care every day. But
what do they currently have access to and how do we build to
meet their needs?
"The strength of the current system is diversity. The
weakness of the current system is how ad hoc it is."
Access to quality is a national priority.
Child care is not just of concern to the child care
community. It is everyone's concern.
Child care is a piece of the bridge to the twenty-first
century.
Partnerships are necessary to get the job done. There must
be solutions on various scales.
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Strategy Recommendations:
Use the following frame: The President and First Lady
articulate a vision of good child care across America. List
the essential elements that are required to fulfill the
vision. Emphasize that there is a lot of work to do and
give people direction on the first steps. Check up on
progress periodically.
Obtain pledges and commitments (perhaps in advance) and then
track and follow-up to ensure that they are carried out,
like with the volunteer summit. Force accountability.
Use child care as one mechanism through which the President
can accomplish his other literacy and education goals.
Launch a commission to investigate financing and ask the
large companies to ante up into a huge public/private
investment fund. The President must put money on the table,
but use it to leverage other funds.
Spawn similar conferences on a State and local scale with
Governors and their spouses and local leaders.
Place the exorbitant cost of quality child care in the
context of the cost of higher education, to which people
already relate.
Foster the support of the middle class.
Conference Program Recommendations:
Confront the issue of resources, which is central and
lacking. The child care system that we talk about is
expensive and we shouldn't pretend that it is not, however
it saves money in the long run. Without a solid
infrastructure and a 10 or 20 year roadmap, we won't get
there.
Cost out a real, comprehensive, quality system. If you had
accurately predicted for people five years ago the level of
the current new investment, they would have been happy, but
now they feel it is still inadequate, because we lack an
understanding of the actual scope of the need and a sense of
what is required to address it.
Make the connection to working families, especially the
working poor, and portray child care as a crucial element in
keeping parent (s) in the labor force.
Focus on the silent customer in child care, which is the
employer of the parent. Recognize that corporations'
understanding of and efforts to address the child care
situation fall along a continuum. Do not neglect small
employers.
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Bring in the governors, mayors, business leaders, school
leaders, and others to sell child care to different
constituencies in the country. Have police chiefs sell it
to police chiefs, superintendents to superintendents, etc
Include unlikely allies like the labor unions, religious
organizations, medical professionals, law enforcement, and
the banking and finance industries. People will notice the
messengers and what they represent.
Give people focused recommendations for action and homework,
so that they know what they are supposed to do the day after
the conference.
Have children speak about their experiences in child care
settings of varying quality.
Consider the delivery system very broadly. No matter where
children are cared for, from relative care to center-based
care, quality care in the first decade of a child's life is
crucial to development.
Connect the conference to the brain research to better
demonstrate why early investment in children is important.
Help parents understand what quality child care is from
infancy through school-age.
Have working parents speak for themselves. Highlight diverse
parents and have them describe what they need from
employers, from schools, etc.
Give participants pre-work to do before they attend the
conference. Each participant should investigate the state of
child care in his or her community.
Highlight child care as a system with an infrastructure and
infrastructure needs, like facility and staff development.
Ask: What policies can we have to ensure that all eligible
children get good care?
Include children's health, parents' health, and parental
support.
Use data to make the point.
Avoid highlighting models that may not be transferable to
other settings. Highlight only things which have the
potential to be universal- not a cookie cutter, but a
blueprint.
Concerns:
Be aware of the frustration that is building from rehashing
the same problems over and over again. Rather than
exacerbate the frustration, highlight potential solutions.
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Michael Levrne
Carnegie Consoration
(212) (212) 207-6314
Rough Ideas for Consideration -- Fall Early Education and Child Care Conference
The fall White House conference on child care affords a strong opportunity for the President
and First Lady to build off of the strong momentum created by the April Conference on
Early Childhood Development. Several possibilities for announcing new initiatives or ideas
for further discussion follow.
I.
Establish a National Campaign to promote quality early education and child care
modeled after the National Teen Pregnancy Campaign. The Campaign might be
chaired by a prominent American and appoint a board of directors from pivotal sectors
(government, media, business, church, parents, community). The campaign's purpose
would be to:
Stimulate and coordinate public education efforts led by groups such as the Advertising
Council, media leaders, such as Rob Reiner and Rosie O'Donnell, early childhood
media organizations;
Establish a "Best Practices" Panel to focus on new industry standards and to
concentrate on workforce development (perhaps created by a national board patterned
after the National Board of Professional Teaching Standards);
Expand parent partnerships in early education programs in communities, perhaps
through a new parent councils initiative modeled after The National PTA's Preschool
PTA's;
Commission Financing Work to Look at making high-quality education and family
leave much more broadly available;
II.
Design a Comprehensive Legislative Initiative. The key components might include:
Establishment of An Early Education/Healthy Brain Development Leverage Fund
(including contributions from federal, state, and local government, the private sector,
and from parents). The purpose of the fund would be to promote a focus at the
community and state levels on a more coherent and effective system of early education
services and supports. For illustrative purposes, such a leverage fund would emphasize;
Building Child Care Supply (using the existing funds available through the Child Care
Fund and some necessary enhancements but also connecting state/community-wide
planning to other sources of supply-building funding available through HUD, CDBG,
and CRA, as well as incentives possible in Empowerment Zones/Enterprise
Communities.
III.
The Fund would emphasize quality by offering opportunities for states and
communities for:
Expanding Training and Work Force Development (looking to Higher Education Act
as a source for new incentives for early educators, setting incentives to use new welfare
to work funding, as well as maintaining an ongoing connection to Corporation for
National Service);
Promoting Parent Support through connections made to Even Start, Family Support,
and America Reads! funding);
Providing benefits and professional recognition for early education providers (through
loan incentives and scholarship funds made available in Higher Education Act and in
state legislation, through innovative use of Medicaid funding to cover health benefits of
child care providers and through development of a national professional standards
board, to promote career development and better pay).
The leverage fund would be administered by a state, county or city-wide non-profit
organization, with designated membership representing key sectors. The national
campaign would work with a business and industry council to raise $50 million per
year to help capitalize the fund, using the North Carolina Smart Start effort as a
model.
Laura Emmett
06/27/97 03:17:04 PM
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The 5th Focus Group Mtg. will take place today in room 472 at 4:00. This group will be corporate
child care contacts.
Attendees
Margaret Browning, Mentor Graphics
Ted Childs, IBM
Madeline Fried, Fried & Scher
Dana Friedman, Corporate Family Solutions
Rosemary Jordano, Children First, Inc.
Chris Kjeldsen, Johnson & Johnson
Donna Klein, Marriott International
Charles Romeo, ConAgra Refrigerated Foods
Mary Kay Leonard, Work Family Directions
Barbara Reisman, Schuman Fund of New Jersey
Michael Day
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Jennifer L. Klein/OPD/EOP
Robin Leeds/WHO/EOP
Cheryl M. Carter/WHO/EOP
Katharine Button/WHO/EOP
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Focus Group # 4 will meet today in room 476 at 4:00. This meeting is with the Child Care
Foundation Contacts. The following will attend:
Michael Levine, Carnegie Corporation of New York
Ruby Takanashi, Foundation for Child Development
Dee Topel, Traveler's Foundation
Luba Lynch, A.L. Mailman Family Foundation
Margaret Petruska, The Howard Heinz Endowment
Mary Larner, David & Lucille Packard Foundation
Kathleen Christensen, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Randi Botnik,
Deanna Gomby, David & Lucille Packard Foundation
Pam Stevens, DeWitt Wallace- Readers Digest Fund
Linda Rich, Pew Charitable Trusts
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Jennifer L. Klein/OPD/EOP
Nicole R. Rabner/WHO/EOP
Katharine Button/WHO/EOP
Cheryl M. Carter/WHO/EOP
Robin Leeds/WHO/EOP
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The following people will be at the 3:00 FOCUS group #3 in room 472
Attendees:
Evelyn Moore, National Black Child Development Institute
Bruce Hershfield, Child Welfare League of America
Billie Osbourne-Fears, Starting Point for Child care & Early Education
Carol Brunson-Phillips, Council for Early Childhood Professional Recognition
Deborah Eaton, National Association for Family Child Care
Heather Weiss, Harvard Family Research Project
Susan Russell, Day Care Services Association
Julie Quaid, Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation
Charlene Muhammad, Metropolitan Consortium for Early Headstart
Joyce Butler, USA Childcare
Abby Griffin
Michelle Seligson
Janice Guerney
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Laura Emmett
06/23/97 02:42:57 PM
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Subject: FOCUS Group # 3
The following people will be at the 3:00 FOCUS group #3 in room 472
Attendees:
Evelyn Moore, National Black Child Development Institute
Bruce Hershfield, Child Welfare League of America
Billie Osbourne-Fears, Starting Point for Child care & Early Education
Carol Brunson-Phillips, Council for Early Childhood Professional Recognition
Deborah Eaton, National Association for Family Child Care
Heather Weiss, Harvard Family Research Project
Susan Russell, Day Care Services Association
Julie Quaid, Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation
Charlene Muhammad, Metropolitan Consortium for Early Headstart
Joyce Butler, USA Childcare
Abby Griffin
Michelle Seligson
Janice Guerney
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Child Care Focus Group Questions
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What is the most important outcome we should seek from the conference?
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What is the biggest barrier to affordable, quality child care for all Americans?
3)
What are the most innovative child care practices currently underway?
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What is the one thing that the President could do to help promote affordable, quality
child care?
Laura Emmett
06/19/97 05:56:50 PM
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Subject: FOCUS Group # 2
Tomorrow's Focus Group will be at 4:00 in room 472 OEOB.
Attendees
Barbara Willer, National Association for the Education of Young Children
Melinda Green, The Child Care Connection
Tutti Sherlock, Minnesota R & R Network
Nancy Sconyers, National Association of Child Advocates
Ellen Galinsky, Famalies and Work Institute
Roberta Malavenda, Save the Children Child Care Support Program
Carol Quarterman, The Family Place
Barbara Ferguson Kamara, DC Dept. of Human Services, Office of Early Childhood
Development
Gail Solit, Gallaudet University Child Development Center
Alice Walker-Duff, Crystal Stairs
Gordon Ambach, National Center for Children in Poverty, Columbia University School of Public
Health
Call me if you have any other questions.
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Laura Emmett
06/17/97 05:32:52 PM
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Subject: Focus Group #1
Wednesday, June 18 4:00 pm rm 476 OEOB
Gordon Ambach, Council of Chief State School Officers
Helen Blank, Children's Defense Fund
Claudia Wayne, National Center for the Early Childhood Workforce
Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, National Center for Children in Poverty, Columbia University
Janet Wise, National Indian Child Care Association
Sharon Lynn Kagan, Bush Center for Child Development in Social Policy, Yale University
Ellen Clippinger, National School Age Care Alliance
Townley Hritz, National Headstart Association
Joan Lombardi- HHS
Moniquin Huggins- HHS
Shannon Rudisill- HHS