2013 U.S Poverty Early Childhood Campaign
(secondary campaign)
Protecting and Expanding Investments in
Head Start and Child Care
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Early Childhood Development Campaign
Investing in America’s Children
• Investing in America’s children is an investment in
America’s future.
• Supplying early childhood development programs
can help break the cycle of poverty.
• Parents need access to reliable child care in order to
work.
• We focus our efforts on
quality early education
and child care.
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Early Childhood Development Campaign
Investing in America’s Children
Research shows that pre-school and
early education programs:
• Offer the most promising way to
ensure school readiness
• Contribute to decreasing student
achievement gaps
• Can have long-term positive
effects such as consistent
employment, college education, less use of public assistance
• James Heckman, a Nobel-prize winning economist, found that
every dollar invested in early childhood programs for at-risk
children yields between $7 and $9 in societal benefits
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Early Childhood Development Campaign
Head Start and Early Head Start
Head Start provides comprehensive child development services to disadvantaged
preschool children (ages 3-6) and their families.
 School readiness and cognitive development services
 Frequent medical screening, immunizations, and dental services
 Healthy nutritional assistance
 Referral services for a range of individual child and family needs
 An opportunity for parents to participate in school decision-making
Early Head Start promote healthy prenatal outcomes for pregnant women, enhance
the development of children ages 3 and under, and promotes healthy family
functioning.
 Quality early education both in and out of the home
 Parenting education
 Comprehensive health and mental health services, including services to women
before, during, and after pregnancy
 Nutrition education
 Family support services
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Early Childhood Development Campaign
Head Start and Early Head Start
• Head Start was appropriated
$7.9 billion in FY 2012
• Head Start served 1.1 million
children and pregnant women
in 2012
• Early Head Start served 148,812
children under age 3 and 16,710 pregnant women throughout
the country.
• Between 2010-2011, Head Start served less than half of all
eligible children and Early Head Start served only about 4
percent of eligible children.
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Early Childhood Development Campaign
Child Care
• Affordable and quality child care is crucial to parent’s
productivity at work and children’s intellectual development.
• Vital for working families, especially low-income families who
want to move out of poverty, but the cost of child care is
often too expensive for low income and moderate-income
working families.
o Center based child care fees for two children (an infant and a 4year-old) exceeded annual median rent payments in all 50 states
and the District of Columbia
• Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG) is the
primary source of federal funding for child care subsidies for
low-income working families and funds to improve child care
quality.
• CCDBG currently serves one in six children eligible.
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Early Childhood Development Campaign
Sequestration
 Head Start
 Estimates are that 65,000 70,000 children will lose
access to services in 2013
alone
 11,500 staff will lose jobs
 Child Care
 30,000 children and their
families will lose child care
assistance
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Early Childhood Development Campaign
House and Senate FY 2014 Funding
Proposals
 House assumes sequestration stays in effect (except for
defense) and cuts Labor-HHS programs by another 18 percent
 No Labor-HHS mark up yet
 Senate – HUGE new investments in Early Learning
 $9.6 billion for Head Start
$1.6 billion increase, including $1.4 billion for Early Head
Start
 $2.5 billion for CCDBG
$176 million increase
 $750 million for state pre-school
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Early Childhood Development Campaign
Senate Funding Breakdown
Head Start
Early Head Start
$9.621 billion
$146 million for
cost-of-living
$25 million for the
costs of recompetition (or
DRS)
CCDBG
$2.5 billion
$1.43 billion
increase, including
Early Head StartChild Care
partnerships
Includes $66 million
increase or access
Includes a $110 million
increase for new quality
improvement grants
available to each state
Preschool
$750 million
for Preschool
Development
Grants
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Early Childhood Development Campaign
2013 Early Childhood Request
Urge House and Senate members to support the
Senate funding levels for Head Start and child care
• $9.6 billion for Head Start, a $1.6 billion increase
• $2.5 billion for CCDBG, a $176 million increase
• $750 million for pre-school development grants
Senate Key Players:
• Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education (Labor-HHS)
Appropriations Subcommittee Chairman Tom Harkin (D-IA)
• Ranking Member Richard Shelby (R-AL)
House Key Players:
• Labor HHS Appropriations Subcommittee Chairman Jack Kingston
(R-GA-1)
• Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-3)
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Early Childhood Development Campaign
Early Childhood Laser Talk
Engage: Recently, military leaders said that early
childhood education is a national security imperative
and business leaders have called on Congress to make
new investments in early learning a priority.
Problem: Unfortunately, we’re regressing in our
efforts to educate our children. Sequestration cuts
are forcing Head Start and child care programs to
close classrooms, lay off staff, and scale back services.
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Early Childhood Development Campaign
Early Childhood Laser Talk
Inform: Head Start, Early Head Start, and child care
give at-risk children the cognitive and social
foundation they need to succeed. Children who
have access to quality preschool grow up healthier,
smarter, and become more productive as adults.
Sadly, sequestration cuts will force 65,000 children
out of Head Start and 30,000 will lose child care this
year. The Senate is doing its best to reverse course
and make a renewed commitment in early
childhood development.
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Early Childhood Development Campaign
Early Childhood Laser Talk
Senate Call to Action: Will you talk to Senate leadership and express your
support for the Senate Labor-HHS funding levels, which allocate $9.621
billion in Head Start in FY 2014 ($1.6 billion increase), $2.5 billion in the
Child Care Development Block Grant ($176 million increase), and $750
million for preschool development grants to help expand preschool to all
low- and moderate-income children?
House Call to Action: Will you speak with House Labor-HHS
Subcommittee Chairman Jack Kingston and Ranking Member Rosa
DeLauro urging them to allocate $9.621 billion in Head Start in FY 2014
($1.6 billion increase), $2.5 billion in the Child Care Development Block
Grant ($176 million increase), and $750 million for preschool
development grants to help expand preschool to all low- and moderateincome children?
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Early Childhood Development Campaign
Early Childhood Education Resources
• RESULTS: www.results.org
• First Focus: http://www.firstfocus.net/
• Zero to Three: http://www.zerotothree.org/
• National Head Start Association: http://www.nhsa.org/
• First Five years Fund: http://www.ffyf.org/
• Early Care and Education Consortium:
http://www.ececonsortium.org/
• Half In Ten: Campaign to Cut Poverty in Half: www.halfinten.org
RESULTS/RESULTS Educational Fund
1730 Rhode Island Ave NW, Ste 400
Washington DC 20036
RESULTS Economic Opportunity Campaign Contacts:
Meredith Dodson, dodson@results.org, (202) 782-7100, x116
Jos Linn, jlinn@results.org, (515) 288-3622
www.results.org