Expanding the Child Care Initiative Project (2018)

The decline in licensed family child care homes in California (and subsequent lack of infant/toddler care) cannot be ignored when they play such a pivotal role for working families. Given that CCIP is the foundation of caregiver support in California, expanding it is the clearest way to help remedy this problem. For the benefit of working families, the healthy development of children, California’s economy, and the support of these providers - who are doing a labor of love for very little compensation - expansion of CCIP is both fiscally and ethically necessary.