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 […]
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 […]
The Mississippi Low-Income Child Care Initiative (MLICCI) is submitting written comments regarding Mississippi’s Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) FFY 2019-2021 State Plan. Below we provide section-specific feedback. Mississippi’s 2019-2021 CCDF State Plan acknowledges the significant changes in Mississippi’s CCDF program that occurred over 2017-2018. While the MDHS characterizes policy changes in 2017 and 2018 as […]
