Action Alert! Children, parents, and early childhood providers throughout the United States should thank you for your help in convincing Congress, on March 23, to pass an Appropriations Act, that includes a $2.4 Billion increase in appropriations for the Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG) (almost doubling it!) as […]
March 2018 P.E.A.C.E. News
Action Alert! Children, parents, and early childhood providers throughout the United States need your help right away. On February 8, Congress passed and the President approved legislation that authorized a doubling of the funding for the Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG) and a big increase in Head Start […]
February 2018 P.E.A.C.E. News
Action Alerts! Although the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) Reauthorization Bill was passed in January, we need to keep pressure up on Congress to reauthorize The Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) program, H.R. 2824, which the House passed in September and is being considered by the Senate. With […]
January 2018 P.E.A.C.E. News
Action Alerts! 1. Child Care: Congress is back in session and Democrats and Republicans are beginning to negotiate the final year –end federal spending bill. Democratic Senators have proposed an increase of $2.9 billion which would double the discretionary funding for CCDBG (Child Care Development Block Grant) . […]
P.E.A.C.E. News for December 2017
Action Alerts! We need to get in touch with our Senators to get them to pass the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) Reauthorization Bill, S.1827, as soon as possible. The CHIP program expired at the end of September, and many States are running out of money to help young children […]
November – P.E.A.C.E. News
Action Alert Two important laws supporting young children expired on September 30, but their extension is being actively considered by Congress. CHIP, the Children’s Health Insurance Program, has been marked up by the relevant House and Senate Committees, but the larger bodies have not yet acted on the Committees’ recommendations. […]
September – P.E.A.C.E. News
Action Alerts Congress! Now that Congress is back at work, please do call or email (preferably through the Senator’s or Representative’s website) about these action messages for legislators: Please work to keep the Government open at least for the rest of 2017. In your Budget decisions, please increase domestic discretionary […]
Annual Peace Award Recipients
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