Category Archives: policy

All Our Kin Attends Care4Kids Rally on the Heels of a Victory for CT’s Working Families

Good news! Child care providers, parents, advocates, and community partners joined our advocacy efforts to save Care4Kids, and it paid off: working families who are currently receiving Care4Kids, and who remain eligible at redetermination, will stay on the program! Over … Continue reading

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Meet Natalie: All Our Kin’s New Policy Fellow

Hello! My name is Natalie, and I just started working at All Our Kin as the new Policy Fellow. I am so excited to engage with the All Our Kin community, especially the incredible family child care professionals who dedicate … Continue reading

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Making Quality Possible: Jessica Sager Featured in a Q&A at New America Ed Central

Last week, All Our Kin Executive Director Jessica Sager spoke with New America’s Aaron Loewenberg about All Our Kin’s history, our new study (which Aaron had written about previously in a different article), and the importance of investing in family … Continue reading

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New All Our Kin Report Makes the Case for Investing in Family Child Care

Exciting news: All Our Kin just released a new report, Examining Quality in Family Child Care: An Evaluation of All Our Kin. For the past year and a half, we have been working closely with external evaluator Toni Porter to … Continue reading

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“Kids Count 2015” Event Highlights Need for Two-Generational Change in Connecticut

Summer is a good time to take stock of how each state’s children are doing: The Annie E. Casey Foundation released the National Kids Count Data Book in late July, and Zero to Three recently published State Baby Factsheets for all 50 states. In … Continue reading

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NPR Highlights Need for Investing in Rural Family Child Care Providers

This week on NPR News, reporter Solvejg Wastvedt shines a spotlight on family child care providers in Tioga County, a rural area in the state of New York. In areas like Tioga County that have very low population density, commercial … Continue reading

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Early Childhood Advocates Ask CT Legislators to Invest in Critical Programs

“Spending on early childhood is our best investment in the future.” Study after study has borne out this message, and few people would disagree that supporting children during their earliest years has a deep, far-reaching impact. However, this year in … Continue reading

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Affordable, High-Quality Child Care at the Forefront of Obama’s State of the Union Address, Budget Proposal

President Barack Obama’s January 20th State of the Union address was met with cheers from advocates for children and parents across the country. Why? Because his plan emphasizes the importance of policies that support American families, particularly those that would … Continue reading

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President Obama Announces New Investments in Early Childhood at the White House Summit on Early Education

Last Wednesday, December 10, policymakers, nonprofit leaders, corporate interests and early childhood experts assembled in Washington, D.C., for the White House Summit on Early Education. President Obama convened the Summit just three weeks after signing the new Child Care and … Continue reading

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Momentum Builds Around Two-Generation Approaches to Battling Poverty

Although Connecticut is one of the wealthiest states in the country, it contains pockets of tremendous poverty. Parents struggle to access the resources they need to give their children quality experiences, and children experience toxic stress that can negatively alter … Continue reading

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