This brief from ZERO TO THREE outlines why states should strongly consider removing any child support enforcement requirements from state child care assistance policies. States funded under the Child Care Development Fund (CCDF) are currently able to require child care subsidy recipients to cooperate with the child support program as a condition of eligibility. However, […]
DHS Removes Child Support Requirement for CCPP, MLICCI Celebrates Near 20-Year Victory Beginning May 15th, single parents in Mississippi no longer need to cooperate with child support enforcement in order to be eligible for child care assistance, thanks to nearly twenty years of advocacy by the Mississippi Low Income Child Care Initiative (MLICCI) that led […]
As Black History Month comes to a close, I want to shine a light on the long history of Black women feminists’ work on child care. Shirley Chisolm worked in child care centers in New York as a teacher and director and served as an education consultant for New York City’s daycare division before becoming […]
In a letter dated July 13, 2022, the Mississippi State Board of Health confirmed that MLICCI Child Care Leadership Team Director Roberta Avila had been appointed as a representative to the Mississippi State Department of Health Child Care Advisory Council. Roberta’s term on the Council runs through June 30, 2025. Roberta stated that in her […]
April 10, 2020 – MLICCI wrote the memo below to Mississippi’s Department of Human Sevices to urge them to enact policies to shore up the CCPP child care sector, not only to protect and stabilize it now during the COVID-19 pandemic but also to secure its future. We signed on with other organizations across the nation […]
MLICCI is hosting a Child Care Leadership Team Meeting on Saturday, August 18, 2018, from 12:30 – 3 p.m. The meeting, being held at the MS Civil Rights Museum in the Craig H. Neilsen Auditorium, is to strengthen and promote improvement to our state’s child care system serving low-income working families. The free event will […]
