What You Can Do

What You Can Do

• SHARE the information on this website with parents and others in your community.
  
  
• FIND OUT if your child's teacher / care-giver receives paid sick and vacation leave, health insurance, paid planning or professional development time, lunch breaks, and other benefits
  
  
• SUPPORT efforts to improve working conditions and benefits received by early childhood programs staff.
  
  
• INSIST on quality for the children and for the teachers - what are the group size and ratios of adults to children in your child's program? Is your program working on quality - are they nationally accredited - are they working on a quality improvement plan using the environmental rating scales?
  
  
• FIND out if your employer, or your business can lend their expertise in human resource management, technical trainings, or other business skills that would benefit early childhood programs.
  
  
• WRITE to your elected officials - local, state and federal - and tell them how you depend on high quality programs and how their costs affect you.
  
  
• ASK your employer to join the growing number of businesses that provides childcare benefits to their employees.
  
  
• JOIN with child and family advocates working to improve program quality at all levels.
  
  
• CALL Kids First to find out how to start