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 I’m a family child care provider in __________________.
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 our efforts to strengthen California’s crumbling child care system.
Nearly 30% of California’s child care providers—most of them women like me—have closed their doors since 2006.
This is in large part because of inefficiencies in California’s child care system that could easily be fixed through collective bargaining. Things like:
- Months-long payment delays that cause cash-flow chaos for small businesses like mine.
- Poor notification of parent eligibility that harms both parents and providers.
- Lack of accountability and oversight of agencies
- Lack of clear authority or process for handling problems
- Unnecessary difficulties and delays with state licensing
Issues like these have affected me profoundly. For example [quick sentence of your own experience – I lost my home or car, I lost my savings, I had to let my assistant go, etc etc]
If I’m forced to close my doors, that puts the working parents who count on me in jeopardy. They could lose their jobs. Or they could be forced to make the terrible decision to leave their children without care.
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 parent engagement to best understand how to support working parents.
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?
