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 […]
The Mississippi Low Income Child Care Initiative recently held its inaugural Child Care Leadership Team meeting in Jackson, Mississippi. The statewide group was created to strengthen and promote improvement to our state’s child care system serving low income working families. Members of the team gathered for its first meeting at the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum in the […]
CHILD CARE CENTER NAME: Hoskins Learning Center OWNER: Lillie Hoskins ESTABLISHED: 1980 PHYSICAL ADDRESS: 300 Highway 51 S, Batesville, Mississippi WEBSITE: https://www.facebook.com/hoskinslearningcenter/ When Lillie Hoskins received news that her child care center had won a recent Mississippi Low-Income Child Care Initiative contest for completing a survey, she was elated. “It was so great,” Hoskins […]
