2025 Lifting Up Families Hybrid Advocacy DayCLICK HERE FOR THE LEGISLATIVE PACKETS On January 22, 2025, statewide and community partners, family child care providers and parents advocated in Sacramento for raising child care rates, strengthening critical safety net programs and lifting up the needs of whole families. Attendees heard from legislative champions committed to strengthening our safety net programs, protecting the progress and honoring the promises of the last legislative sessions, and building up supportive services in 2025-26. California’s lowest income working parents continue in a downward spiral unable to meet the most basic of needs for their children. In order to help families be more successful and break the cycle of poverty, programs that help them secure basic services such as child care, food, housing, and mental health must be resourced. Here is a recording of the morning portion of our program: (Click the Additionally, you can watch a conversation with Assemblymember Sade Elhawary below regarding the impact of supportive services, including child care, on victims of the Los Angeles fires. We Would Like to Give a BIG Thank You to Our Event Sponsors! Grassroots Training Thank you to Andrew Avila, Early Edge CA and Dubrea Sanders, Catalyst California and McKenzie Richardson, Thriving Families CA, for facilitating the Grassroots Training! This is an hour-long Advocate Training and "prep-talk" on what to expect in the meetings, what you are sharing, and how every person and viewpoint in the meeting is important. Please watch that below (click on the Vimeo logo at the bottom right to expand, or use this link to watch): https://vimeo.com/1047940178/414c015de6?share=copy
Handouts:
Each legislative office will receive a special packet full of district specific data on strengthening and supporting whole families in their district. Further in the packet is information regarding Poverty, Early Learning Needs of Families and Children, Child Care and other Family Supports, and the Impactful Investments Needed in 2025. Individual member packets from the 2025 Advocacy Day may be found below for download: |