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Children and Families Pillar Priorities
The children and families agenda is cross-cutting. Priority issues range from
education to health to environment to welfare reform to crime prevention, which
are reflected in the overall grid. To ensure the President's rightful legacy as the
children's President, we have three important challenges:
1)
consolidate and strengthen the President's strong record of achievements --
expansion of health care for children, Head Start, immunizations, education, WIC,
and EITC, protecting the environment, promoting early childhood development,
making the streets and world safer for children;
2)
ensure that we are as diligent in implementing these programs as we were
creating them, particularly with respect to investments in children's health and
education, welfare reform and crime prevention; and
3)
pursue bold, new programs, of which child care should be a priority.
The Children and Families Pillar outlines priority issues not otherwise discussed in
other pillars. The building blocks of the children and family pillars include three
clear priorities:
Strengthen Child Care. Address the significant quality and affordability crisis
in child care for working families by launching at the October White House
Conference an administrative and legislative initiative that targets: health and
safety of children in care; quality of care; affordability of care; availability of
both infant and toddler care and school age care; and public education.
Broad parameters of initiative could be discussed at White House Conference
and full initiative unveiled in the State of the Union.
Emphasis on 0-5 Early Learning. Through strengthened child care, Parents as
First Teachers, and expanded Head Start, we could ensure that any focus on
child care has a strong education component. This is critical and appropriate
given the attention that the First Lady's early learning conference brought to
this issue.
Improve Adoption and Child Welfare System. Advance the President's
Adoption 2002 initiative, which sets goals of doubling, by the year 2002,
the number of children adopted or permanently placed each year, and of
moving children out of foster care more quickly by: pushing Congress to act
on pending legislation and appropriation requests.
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enrichment programs
for early childhood
development and
school-readiness.
Experts report a
quality crisis in child
care, with low state
licensing standards
and low wages/
high turnover in the
profession.
Studies tells us that
crime increases
after 3pm, that
latchkey children
are more likely to
engage in risky
behavior, and that
quality after-school
programs can have
a positive effect on
children's
development and
learning.
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Promote Adoption
Double the number
9/97:
Approx. 500,000
The President
and Improve Child
of children adopted
Senate
children are in foster
Adoption 200
Welfare
each year by 2002
expected to
care, with approx.
is nearly cost
and move children
consider
100,000 legally free
with targeted
more quickly from
adoption
and waiting for
from foster ca
foster care to
bills
adoption. Seven
permanent homes --
out of 10 are
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President's Adoption
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minority children,
cost neutral;
2002 initiative.
leadership
older, or have
has not been
to ensure
special needs.
costed, but is
Promote Adoption
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at several billi
2002 by pushing
al action
Congress to act on
pending legislation
and appropriations
requests.
Help Parents
Expand FMLA to
Push
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Cost Neutral.
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ensure that
Congress
parents balance
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employees can take
to
work and family by
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introduce
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school and early
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childhood education
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activities, routine
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family medical or
dental appointments
or elderly health and
care needs. Propose
other family-friendly
initiatives, to
encourage
telecommuting,
self-employment,
etc. Issue report on
new tensions that
work places on the
family.
Protect Children
Continue leadership
Ongoing
Tools such as TV
Cost Neutral.
from Negative
in development of
Ratings and the
Influences of Media
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and Promote Quality
and quality TV
parents to make
Children's Television
programming for
informed decisions
children.
about their
children's TV
watching.
Do talking points
Estela Mendoza
from resease press
08/25/97 10:10:15 AM
Record Type:
Record
To:
Jennifer L. Klein/OPD/EOP, Nicole R. Rabner/WHO/EOP
CC:
Subject: Child Care Conference
I'm told you are the contacts for the Child Care Conference. Can you forward some basic
information to me about it? When it is, where it will take place and what goals is the conference
expect to accomplish. I've received a call from a magazine and would like to know how much I can
tell them. Should 1 refer them to your press office or is there something basic 1 could relate?
Thanks!
(...I'm the newest addition to the Press Office.)