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Dear Friend,
“I’m terrified, I’ve been trying to hope that there would be a dramatic
change,”
- Ashleigh, Washington State mom of three, including two Head Start
graduates and a third child enrolled in Head Start
While moms like Ashleigh face losing access to Head Start childcare – and
the occupational, speech, and physical therapy their children rely on but
would never be able to afford without this critical program – so they can
go to work, President Trump put in gold bathroom fixtures and poured
champagne at his Great Gatsby themed party alongside his billionaire
buddies. All of this as the government shutdown continues to drag on,
threatening access to food, health care and child care for millions of
families and children across the nation.
[ [link removed] ]*Say NO to Billionaires over Head Start: CLICK NOW to urge Republican
leaders in Congress to IMMEDIATELY end the shutdown, fix the health care
and SNAP crisis, and restore Head Start funding!
This administration and Republicans in Congress continue demonstrating
their utter disregard for our children and families as they continue to
hold our government hostage, creating utter chaos and catastrophe for
children and families. Just this week more than 8,000 children in 15
states and Puerto Rico lost access to Head Start, [1] and 143 Head Start
programs serving 58,627 children across 41 states are facing looming
closures. [ [link removed] ]
[2]*Every day of this shutdown is further hurting our families and our
economy: Urge Republican leaders in Congress to head back to the
negotiating table and end this shutdown NOW!
Dozens of Head Start centers are now missing out on federal grant payments
that were due to arrive November 1st and centers around the country are
beginning to cease operations, [ [link removed] ] with some closed indefinitely, while
others are staying afloat with emergency funding from local governments
and school districts. [ [link removed] ] The closures mean Head Start students — who come
from low-income households, are homeless or are in foster care — are
missing out on preschool, where they are fed two meals a day and receive
therapy vital to their development. [ [link removed] ] On Monday four Massachusetts Head
Start centers serving 550 children closed and 150 staff members were
furloughed. [ [link removed] ] Every Head Start center in Little Rock, Arkansas has
closed, as well as several rural programs in Ohio, Iowa and Florida. [ [link removed] ]
More than 1,100 children in Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, Alabama and
Oklahoma have been shut out of centers that also saw the furlough of 900
staff members. [ [link removed] ]
Parents are having to miss working at much-needed jobs because they don’t
have childcare – and kids are losing out on learning.
One of the most heartbreaking aspects of these closures is the jarring
disruption to care that the littlest learners are having to experience.
Continuity of care is a crucial part of healthy child development and
these needless disruptions harm not only consistent access to child care,
they hurt family stability and economic security, and cut off access to
nutritious meals, physical and mental health checkups, and other vital
support that Head Start provides. In many rural and frontier communities,
Head Start is also the only reliable early learning and child care program
available to families. [9]
[3]*CLICK NOW to call on Congress to IMMEDIATELY end the shutdown, fix the
health care crisis and restore Head Start funding!
Head Start has experienced decades of a bipartisan commitment to our
nation's children with this year marking the 60th anniversary of a program
that is the most important social and educational investment in children,
families, and communities the United States has ever undertaken. Yet
today, parents are left scrambling to figure out how to go to work as
their child care is taken away – and children are facing learning loss due
to the prioritization of politics and billionaires over families. Holding
hostage critical programs families rely on for food, health care and child
care while billionaires live it up is beyond unconscionable. Families need
Head Start and families need health care! What they don’t need is an
ongoing shutdown that locks families and kids out of the most fundamental
necessities.
Together we are raising our voices and together we are being heard. We
will continue to speak up and fight for what is right for children and
families!
Thank you for everything you do for our movement!
- Nadia, Lauren, Nina, Hanna, Donna, Kristin, and the whole MomsRising.org
& MamásConPoder Team
P.S. Has your access to Head Start been impacted by the shut down? Are you
a provider whose program has been effected by the shut down? [4]Share your
Head Start Shutdown story now.
[1] [2] [4][5][7] [8] [5]Some Head Start preschools shutter as government
shutdown continues
[3] [6]Confirmed Closures of Head Start Programs Due to The Government
Shutdown
[6] [7]Massachusetts Head Start centers close amid funding freeze
[9] [8]Rural Americans who rely on Head Start worry about its future:
‘Without free childcare I couldn’t work’
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