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ABCD Campaign to Sustain Child Care
To best support its state-wide efforts to finance and support child care facility construction, the Low Income Investment Fund coordinates the ABCD Campaign to Sustain Child Care. This strategy of the ABCD Initiative forges coalitions of advocates to support increased funding for facility development, to inform land use and other policies that streamline the development process, and, importantly, to ensure adequate funding of program operations.
The Issues
The population of Californians aged zero to four is expected to increase by more than 325,000 over the next ten years. However, even now, there are only enough licensed child care spaces for 25% of children with working parents. The need for local governments to adopt proactive policies that encourage child care and sustained financing of child care facility development is clear.
Reliable and robust streams of operating revenue are essential to making child care programs viable.
And while facilities are critically important, they alone are not sufficient to make quality child care available to all the children who need it, particularly those from low-income families. Reliable and robust streams of operating revenue are essential to making child care programs viable. This includes paying staff adequately and supporting occupancy costs for appropriate facilities. A lack of adequate investment in program operations means that thousands of children miss out on critical opportunities to boost their chances of success in school and in life.
Partnerships to Create Change
The ABCD Campaign to Sustain Child Care recognizes the importance of active participation in advocacy for increased child care facilities development and operating subsidies from all levels of government. We also believe that advocacy is most potent when partners from a variety of sectors that serve low-income families join forces.
With its long-standing excellence in support of affordable housing and community development financing, LIIF and the ABCD Campaign to Sustain Child Care have access to representatives of a wide array of sectors that have not been traditionally involved in advocating for public investments in child care, but who are known to appreciate its importance. These include professionals in finance, community and economic development, local planning, and affordable housing.
In partnership with these representatives, the ABCD Campaign to Sustain Child Care strives to:
- Ensure that child care facilities and operations issues are included in current child care and community development advocacy efforts
- Increase the levels and security of funding for child care facility development and operations
- Help create public policies that streamline facility development such as changes in land use policies and regulations
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