Protected: Child care is at the center of everything that matters.
The Child Care for Every Family Network is the largest united group of state and national organizations, child care providers, impacted families, and organizers working together to transform child care. Our network currently includes 1,500+ groups and individuals and is expanding every day as we work to build the power necessary to win.
Networks include campaigns, coalitions, alliances, and individual organizations—all working together. Many hands make light work, and our strength lies in incredible diversity. During extremely trying political times, networks are essential because they allow for rest and prevent burnout. Different members of the network can tap in and out as capacity allows so that the work always continues.
Too often, policy solutions come top-down and don’t involve the folks on the ground who are experiencing our broken systems first-hand. We believe that folks most impacted by our broken child care system should be the ones centered as we rebuild it. That looks like Black and brown folks, immigrants, people living with a disability or who have a disabled child, and people who make low- to no wages helping design policy solutions.
Align and build trust among those working with different constituencies (i.e. parents and early childhood educators/providers), in different communities (across the country, urban/rural and racial/ethnic identities), geographies (local, state and national) and building different types of expertise (early childhood development, racial and gender justice, worker justice, etc)
Leverage existing strengths and capacities (in organizing, state policy, federal policy, research, training/assistance, service provision, communications, etc) and reduce unnecessary duplication of efforts
Build power by supporting organizing within and across constituencies and movements and build momentum across local and state action that builds toward federal action
Support peer-to-peer learning and uplift and scale break-through change strategies that move us towards our shared goals and greater equity
Win critical joint campaigns
Experiment with new approaches
Fill missing gaps where we lack capacity and/or coordination to advance our shared goals
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