Action Step Leadership Team: The organizations or individuals listed under the priority have agreed to be part of a team to lead the strategy together.
In blue Action Step Leader/Co-Leaders: The member(s) of the Action Step Leadership Team who stepped up to convene the meetings and be responsible for reporting updates at the Zoom Calls with the Child Care Community.
Legislation is listed in alphabetical order within the categories of SUPPORT, MONITOR and OPPOSE
Other priorities for action are listed below, in no particular order.
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Good news! The child care community gave compelling and effective testimony at the House Finance Committee budget hearing on March 12. Then, on March 25, there was a UNANIMOUS, 9 to 0, bipartisan vote by the House Finance Committee, Division III, to fully fund the $15M in child care workforce retention and recruitment grants in the next biennium budget (July 2025 through June 2027), FY 2026-2027, should the federal funding be allowable.
We will work hard together to keep it funded with the allowable federal funding when the Senate starts working on the budget in mid April!
Early Learning NH, NH Child Care Advisory Council (NH CCAC), Campaign for a Family Friendly Economy, Save the Children Action Network (SCAN)
For more information, contact:
Jackie Cowell, jcowell@earlylearningnh.org
or
Marianne Barter, mariannebarter@gmail.com
Early Learning NH, NH CCAC
For more information, contact:
Jackie Cowell, jcowell@earlylearningnh.org
Early Learning NH, NH CCAC
For more information, contact:
Jackie Cowell, jcowell@earlylearningnh.org
New Futures
For more information, contact:
Rebecca Woitkowski, rwoitkowski@new-futures.org
Early Learning NH, NH CCAC, Waypoint
For more information, contact:
Jackie Cowell, jcowell@earlylearningnh.org
Early Learning NH, NH CCAC
For more information, contact:
Jackie Cowell, jcowell@earlylearningnh.org
Early Learning NH has testified in opposition to this bill and suggested a more efficient and effective practice than the one outlined in the bill. We support adding blood lead level testing results on the health form to enter child care and have suggested that it is better to be the duty of the health care provider (HCP) filling out the form, not the child care provider receiving the form, to ensure that the form is complete and that it is most effective to require the HCP to be the one communicating with the parent about blood lead level testing.
Early Learning NH, NH CCAC
For more information, contact:
Jackie Cowell, jcowell@earlylearningnh.org
Early Learning NH, NH CCAC, Campaign for a Family Friendly Economy, SCAN, Staffing Crisis Taskforce
For more information, contact:
Jackie Cowell, jcowell@earlylearningnh.org
MomsRising, NH CCAC, White Birch Center, SCAN
For more information, contact:
MacKenzie Nicholson, mackenzie@momsrising.org
MomsRising, Early Care and Education Association (ECEA), Coös County Directors Network (Coös), NH CCAC
For more information, contact:
MacKenzie Nicholson, mackenzie@momsrising.org
A Place to Grow, Coös, NH CCAC, ECEA, Early Childhood Resource Network (ECRN)
For more information, contact:
Jen Jegere, jlegere@aplace2grow.com
MomsRising, ECEA, ECRN, Coös, SCAN, Waypoint
For more information, contact:
MacKenzie Nicholson, mackenzie@momsrising.org
Coös with New Futures, YMCA network, ECEA, White Birch Center, MomsRising
For more information, contact:
Airole Warden, airolesage@gmail.com
Early Learning NH, Coös, NH CCAC, NHAEYC, Waypoint
For more information, contact:
Jackie Cowell, jcowell@earlylearningnh.org
Early Learning NH, The Growing Years
For more information, contact:
Jackie Cowell, jcowell@earlylearningnh.org
Early Learning NH, NH CCAC, MomsRising, Coös, YMCA network, SCAN, Waypoint
For more information, contact:
Jackie Cowell, jcowell@earlylearningnh.org
