Legislative Action Center

You can make a difference in just 5 minutes. That's all it takes to learn about the issue and send a letter to your elected officials. The actions of our government have an enormous impact on the future of our children. History teaches us that every vote can matter. Use PACCA's Legislative Action Center to easily communicate with your elected officials and find out where they stand on the issues.

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Current Action Alerts

ALERT DATE OPENED	ALERT DATE CLOSED	ALERT DESCRIPTIONS & LINKS
2/6/2020	CLOSED	Tell your State Senator and Representative to increase funding for child care Governor Wolf’s 20-21 budget address highlighted child care as a critical workforce support and one of the priorities of this year’s budget but included no new state funds to increase access or quality. Our senators and representatives need to hear from us throughout budget negotiations to make child care a priority in this budget!
1/14/2020	CLOSED	Remind Your Legislator to Sign Their 2020 Resolution! In December, Start Strong PA delivered a New Year’s resolution photo frame to every member of the General Assembly. Inside the frame is the following resolution and a place for their signature. Throughout January, we are asking child care providers to send photos of infants and toddlers to their policymakers for them to place inside their frame.
11/21/2019	CLOSED	Contact your legislator about high-quality child care funding This year's budget contained some good news for child care ... Using new federal dollars Pennsylvania was able to increase child care spending; however, state appropriators reduced the state child care budget by $36 million, replacing those dollars with federal funds. This reduction of state funds means we will have to fight harder in the coming years to restore and grow Pennsylvania’s investments in child care access, quality, and workforce supports. Join us in letting legislators know that while we appreciate the consideration placed on high-quality infant and toddler child care during this budget season, remind them we need their support for our youngest children to receive a quality educational foundation through high-quality child care through investing state resources.
10/21/2019	CLOSED	Let Gov. Wolf Know You Support Investments in ECE The Pennsylvania Child Care Association is joining our partners on the Start Strong PA, as well as the Pre-K for PA and Childhood Begins At Home Campaigns to urge Governor Wolf to increase investments in PA's early learning programs. The Governor presents his proposed budget for FY 2020-2021 to the General Assembly in February, but now is the time he and his staff are crafting their budget priorities.
7/19/2019	CLOSED	Sign on your Organization to Urge Congress to Raise the Caps on Non-Defense Discretionary Funding We need to show our support for Congress’ efforts to raise the caps on non-defense discretionary funding – the budget category that funds key programs for children and families, like CCDBG, Head Start, and others. Please add your ORGANIZATION on to the list of national, state and local organizations urging Congress to the raise the caps on non-defense discretionary funding by COB SUNDAY, JULY 21st so we can share with the Hill on Monday.
4/04/2019	CLOSED	Ask Your Legislators to Increase State Child Care Funds PACCA and the Start Strong PA Campaign need you to urge your state legislators to support the Governor's proposal to allocate federal funds and to work together and craft a budget that increases state funds for child care by $50 million. With an additional investment of $50 million in state funding, Pennsylvania will help to ensure the healthy development of 10,000 infants and toddlers.
2/4/2019	CLOSED	Make Your Voice Heard and Sign-On To Ask Congress to Increase Federal Child Care Funding We are advocating for greater investments in federal child care funding and we need your organization to join us in signing a letter to encourage the Pennsylvania delegation to support the increase. To allow for an increase in child care funding, it is essential that our delegation support an overall increase in the budgetary caps on domestic spending and a proportionate increase in funding to the Labor-Health and Human Services-Education appropriations bill. We are taking organizational sign-ons. If you are authorized to sign-on for your organization, please click through to the letter.
6/19/2018	CLOSED	Child Care Action Day Today is Child Care Action Day 2018 - Build Bright Futures! We may not be having a big rally in Harrisburg this year, but we can still carry a message that will resonate in the halls of the capitol Budget negotiations between the House and Senate Leaders and the Governor’s Office are not over. Reach out to your state representatives and urge them to support the Governor Wolf’s proposed 27 million dollar increase to child care funding.
5/15/2018	CLOSED	Ask the PA House and Senate to Increase State Child Care Funding What is happening? Gov. Wolf proposed a $27 million funding increase for child care. Now we need the General Assembly to support it as the state budget for fiscal year 2018-19 is finalized. Why does it matter? The governor’s investment would allow more families to access child care subsidies they need to work and support quality child care for children through tiered reimbursement rate increases. As a provider, you know firsthand the difference high-quality care makes in the life of a child and their family. But, you also know the child care system is significantly underfunded and we need increased investments to improve it. We are asking child care providers across the state to sign-on to a letter to the Pennsylvania senators and representatives asking them to support the $27 million increase in state funds. Please sign your organization on to the letter by close of business on Wednesday, May 30! Your voice matters!
2/9/2018	CLOSED	In a perfect world Congress ... would pass a bill that would … Lower child care costs for low-income and middle-income families to a maximum of seven percent of household income through a sliding scale, regardless of how many children they have. Support universal access to high-quality preschool programs for all low- and middle-income three- and four-year-olds Significantly improve compensation and training for the child care workforce to ensure that our nation’s teachers and caregivers have the support they need. Improve the quality of child care by ensuring that funding is available to enable providers to maintain high standards. The good news is a bill like this exists – it’s called the Child Care for Working Families Act. It was introduced in September, with our own Senator Bob Casey helping to lead the charge.
1/18/2018	CLOSED	Increase CCDBG in FY 2018 Appropriation Bill We have an opportunity ... There is a proposal in Congress that would double discretionary funding for the Child Care and Development Block Grant for FY 2018. We are collecting signatures urging Pennsylvania's congressional delegation to support this request. This is an important opportunity to secure additional funding for child care assistance, and we as a community must be vocal about our support with our delegation.

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National and State Policymakers

Governor Tom Wolf (D) Send a message to Governor Wolf by clicking HERE. Office of the Governor 508 Main Capitol Building Harrisburg, PA 17120 Phone: (717) 787-2500 Fax: (717) 772-8284	Senator Robert P. Casey (D) Send a message to Senator Casey by clicking .HERE? 393 Russell Senate Office Building Washington, D.C. 20510 Phone: (202) 224-6324 Toll Free: (866) 802-2833 Fax: (202) 228-0604	Senator Patrick Toomey (R) Send a message to Senator Toomey by clicking HERE. 248 Russell Senate Office Building Washington, D.C. 20510 Phone: (202) 224-4254 Fax: (202) 228-0284
President Donald J. Trump (R) Send a message to President Trump by clicking HERE. The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20500 PHONE NUMBERS Comments: (202) 456-1111 Switchboard: (202) 456-1414