Save Our Child Care

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The cost of child care is a huge expense for Virginia families, up to $12,000 per year for one child! Child care subsidies help low-income working families succeed and improve their well-being and ability to be self-sufficient. Across Virginia, 36,000 children currently receive these subsidies, with another 13,000 on waiting lists and even more who are in need of this help to achieve lasting stability. Funding for these critical child care subsidies is at risk in Virginia!

Insufficient funding for this program will plunge thousands of working families into crisis. Parents will be forced to choose between quitting their jobs to look after their children full-time, threatening their financial stability; or making alternative child care arrangements, sacrificing their children’s education and safety, to continue working to provide for their families. Ripple effects will be felt throughout Virginia, including: an increase in welfare enrollment; the loss of valuable employees by businesses; an increase in homelessness; and suffering by disadvantaged youth at increased risk of academic failure, victimization, and negative influences.

Low-income working families in Virginia desperately need your help today! To support funding for child care subsidies:

Write a letter to Governor Kaine to ask him to include significant funding for child care subsidies (specifically, the child care fee system) in his biennial budget. Click here to view sample letters (Word document).

Attend our next planning meeting. Contact Julie Brunson at 571-323-1403 for more details.

Sign a Pledge Kid, our petition in support of funding for child care subsidies. (Print, complete, and return the Pledge Kid to Reston Interfaith by mail or fax to 571-323-9554.)
Encourage your friends, family, co-workers, and employers to support this important issue.
Call/write your legislators to tell them to support funding for child care subsidies. (You can also let us know about your progress in making these important contacts.)
Contact legislators on key committees to ask them to commit to protecting the well-being of children and families by supporting funding for child care subsidies. (You can also let us know about your progress in making these important contacts.)
Volunteer to organize events and mobilize supporters in your community.
Contact the media to let them know about efforts in your community to support funding for child care subsidies. (You can also let us know about your progress in making these important contacts.)

For more information,
contact Julie Brunson at 571-323-1414 or julie.brunson@restoninterfaith.org.

Press/media, please contact Mary Supley Foxworth at
571-323-9567 or mary.supleyfoxworth@restoninterfaith.org.

Keep Parents Working, Keep Families Strong!