| This week: Racial Equity in Child Care, Family Separation, CTC |
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RECENTLY FROM CLASP
January 27, 2022
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How Build Back Better Advances Racial Equity in Child Care and Early Education
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One of the Build Back Better Act’s most significant effects would be in reshaping the child care and early education field through long-overdue changes that will begin to address racial inequities—both for families and providers—through alleviating many of the socioeconomic barriers that uphold those inequities.
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Exhausted Parents Need the CTC’s Relief
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"I’m tired. I’m tired because as a person with direct experience of poverty working in the policy realm, it’s hard doing this work when you’re still living this work." Read this blog by a member of our Community Partnership Group.
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CLASP Makes Recommendations on Reunifying Families
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CLASP, along with First Focus on Children, Children’s Defense Fund, The Children’s Partnership, and Save the Children, submitted a comment on January 24, 2022, in response to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s request for public input in supporting the work of the Interagency Task Force on the Reunification of Families. The comment letter calls for an end to all ongoing enforcement actions at the border and the interior that continue to harm children and families.
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On January 19, Nia West-Bey presented on a panel organized by MTV's mental health advisory network on the state of youth and young adult mental health.
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On January 14, Tiffany Ferrette and Alycia Hardy spoke on a panel entitled “Strategies for a More Equitable Child Care Agenda” at the National Women’s Law Center Annual Meeting. They discussed strategies for advancing equity for families, providers, and communities with COVID recovery and relief funding.
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On January 11, Tiffany Ferrette participated on the opening panel for the 2022 Policy Connect Annual Retreat entitled “Building & Sustaining Transformative Policies: Where We Are, Where We’re Going & How We Get There.”
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