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Committee on Child Care
The Committee on Child Care (CCC) is committed to learning about and improving the availability of quality child care to women with fewer means. Jonathan Cohn in the New Republic identifies the lack of quality, affordable day care as “the most significant barrier to full equality for women in the workplace.”* The barrier to full equality falls most heavily on women in under-served communities. In addition to the lack of quality, affordable child care, CCC is also concerned that as a society we do not accord child care practitioners sufficient pay or respect for the work they do. The Committee on Child Care addressed these issues with four projects.
To learn more, click on the links below:
- Interviews of parents of children in child care and of the caregivers who care for the children»
- Handle With Care: Part 1 and Part 2, two brief plays that highlight realities of child care today»
- Taking a Closer Look at Child Care, a short documentary of the voices of practitioners and parents»
- Information CCC collected on child care»
Contact jackiewwhp@gmail.com for more information on any of these projects.
"Children are one third of our population
and all of our future."
~ Select Panel for the Promotion of
Child Health, 1981
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