“Please support SB 548? — Parent script

Posted by SEIU Local 99 on July 30, 2015

Thank you for being a part of this movement to end California’s child care crisis!

Here is a suggested script to guide your conversation with Assembly Members’ district office staff.

Whom to call…

Adrin Nazarian, Assembly District 46
(818) 376-4246

Jimmy Gomez, Assembly District 51
(213) 483-5151

Mike Gatto, Assembly District 43
(818) 558-3043

Autumn Burke, Assembly District 62
(310) 412-6400

Ian Calderon, Assembly District 57
(562) 692-5858

Mike Gipson, Assembly District 64
(310) 223-1201

Suggested script…

My name is _______________ and my child attends ____[name of day care]____ in ___[city]___.

I am strongly in favor of SB 548, the Raising Child Care Quality and Accessibility Act.

I ask the Assembly Member to add his/her voice in support of the efforts to strengthen California’s crumbling child care system.

Children need a place where they can learn and get ready for kindergarten; a place where they get exercise and nutritious meals. Many parents like me have difficulty finding a safe, affordable place we can trust to leave our kids while we are at work.

For example [quick sentence of your own problems with California’s child care system – I have lost access to my subsidy before, sometimes the agency has given very unclear guidelines, my child care provider had to shut her business, etc etc]

I know that nearly 30% of California’s child care providers—most of them women—have closed their doors since 2006. And I know that California can do better to stabilize things for them and families like mine.

If ___[name of your child care provider]___ was forced to close her doors, I don’t know what I would do. [quick sentence about what that would mean for you – what your options with me

SB 548 will:

  • Extend collective bargaining rights to family child care providers to advocate for improvements to child care quality and access.
  • Expand training opportunities for providers and identify opportunities to make best use of federal, state and private funding available for training.
  • Authorize a study of best practices for supporting working parents like me who want to be more involved in our child’s early development.

That’s why nearly 100 organizations like…

  • Mi Familia Vota
  • Brotherhood Crusade
  • United Way of Greater Los Angeles
  • California State Conference of the NAACP and the NAACP, Los Angeles
  • Children’s Defense Fund, California
  • Community Coalition
  • National Organization for Women
  • Planned Parenthood of California
  • Western Center on Law & Poverty

…support SB 548.

Can we also count on Assembly Member __[name]__ to support SB548?

Did you make these calls?

Let us know how they went!

 

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