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Mayor Adams Announces Child Care Program, Supporting Working Families

LittleAfrica Staff Writer by LittleAfrica Staff Writer
July 6, 2022
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Mayor Eric Adams releases “Accessible, Equitable, High-quality, Affordable: A Blueprint for Child Care & Early Childhood Education in New York City,” outlining essential steps to provide high-quality, equitable, and accessible child care for thousands of New York City families. Union Settlement Union Carver Center, Manhattan. Tuesday, June 28, 2022. Credit: Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office.

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Mayor Adams Announces Child Care Program…

On Tuesday, June 28th, New York City Mayor Eric Adams released “Accessible, Equitable, High-quality, Affordable: A Blueprint for Child Care & Early Childhood Education in New York City.”

This blueprint is seen as a crucial step to providing high-quality, equitable, and accessible child care for thousands of New York City families. This interagency will allow for investments in comprehensive and idealist programming to support New York City’s youngest.

This includes increasing outreach to families living in temporary housing, increasing opportunities for early childhood professionals, and reducing red tape for background checks.

The blueprint aims to support working families and enable parents to return to the workforce, which will simultaneously add to the city’s economic pulse. It does this by enhancing access to care for the city’s 500,000 children under the age of five, supporting parents, and reversing the economic impact on parents of color.

In regards to the program, Mayor Adams said, “America runs on child care, and it doesn’t matter if it’s mothers or grandmothers who are providing some type of child care for their grandchildren or children, the neighbor next door or a child care center.

This country and this city wouldn’t function without child care, and we’re clear on that. The more qualitative the product is, the more opportunities we are going to give children.”

He added, “375,000 parents had to quit or get downshifted from their jobs because they had no other way to take care of their children. And when you do an analysis of that, you’ll see that this is a historical problem.” 

“Our children need the building blocks of education, healthy food, and active play.” He recounted that as a growing child, “mom had to work three jobs to take care of her six children, and that problem has continued throughout the generations, so it’s just time to do better.”

Still on NY Child Care Program…

“It makes sure that children have a safe place to grow, learn, and socialize. Socialization is crucial for our children as they develop the skills to interact with different cultures, families, and lifestyles.

Hence, there won’t be a need for parents to choose between TV as a babysitter and earning a living. This has been a choice that they have had to make year, after year, after year, and we are saying no to that,” Mayor Adams said

The Adams administration has planned to invest an extra $800 million in child care over the next four years, in addition to the existing spending on child care, for a total of almost $2 billion in child care spending.

According to the blueprint, the administration will develop a new application portal exclusively for child care, enabling families to traverse this procedure more easily and reducing red tape and hassles associated with the application process for families. 

The Blueprint for Child Care & Early Childhood Education in New York City builds on private-public partnerships and represents an exceptional chance to work together to spark changes in child care that will have long-lasting effects for generations.

A $100 million fund will be allocated by the Child Care Quality and Innovation Initiative in collaboration with the Robinhood Foundation to increase access to child care while enhancing the standard of care given to New York City children.

Child Care Program Cont’d…

Chancellor David C. Banks calls the blueprint a “critical step in ensuring this remains a reality for every single one of our families. It has been proven time and time again that learning begins at birth.

That’s why we are committed to our mission of fostering a birth to five, thus guaranteeing that every child gets all the opportunities they deserve and every family has the support they need.” 

The existing lack of child care options poses a threat to household financial stability, particularly for low-income families headed by women in New York City.

According to research, investing in early childhood is the most effective way for the country to combat poverty because the benefits to society greatly outweigh the expenditures. 

However, in New York City, 52 percent of families with children under the age of four are currently unable to afford child care, and one in every four parents has had to turn down a job offer, change jobs, or take time off due to child care requirements since the pandemic began. There is currently just one open child care spot for every five newborns. 

The child care system has to be improved in order to lower poverty, strengthen family economic stability, and promote healthy child development.

This blueprint gives parents more opportunities for caregivers, particularly women, to work and earn more money.

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