Take Action

Trying Together and our partners are advocating for greater investments in federal child care funding, and we need your organization to join us. Please sign this letter to encourage the Pennsylvania delegation to support increased child care funds.

Your voices helped achieve historic increases in funding for the Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG) funds in federal fiscal years 2018 and 2019. We need to build off that success and advocate for increased discretionary CCDBG funding in federal fiscal year 2020 so that we can continue to address unmet needs. Advocates across the country are asking Congress to increase CCDBG funding by $5 billion.

To accomplish this goal, the Budget Control Act caps on non-defense discretionary spending would need to be lifted to provide for such an increase in the Labor/Health and Human Services/Education appropriations bill.

The additional funding would help Pennsylvania children and families access and afford high-quality child care and further support child care programs and teachers. Trying Together along with our partner early care and education advocacy organizations in Pennsylvania is gathering signatures for a letter to our congressional delegation. Please sign your organization on to the letter by Wednesday, February 20th!