CCFA + AWBi meet with over 50 legislators!

Over the past two years, the Children's Campaign Fund Action and the Association of Washington Business Institute met with 54 legislators! These joint meetings focused on educating lawmakers on the importance of early learning.

In 2023, CCFA and AWBi developed a primer on child care (please click here to read our primer!). The primer includes information about the science behind early learning and brain development and current government funding and regulatory systems for child care. In 2024, CCFA and AWBi representatives also shared our Bus Tour Report.

We are looking forward to continuing our bipartisan education efforts with AWBi!

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For our bus tour report, please click here!

Report

Check out our Bus Tour Report!

It's here! Our LEAP (Legislator Education & Action Project) Bus Tour Report details what we learned from traveling around the state from child care providers, advocates, and lawmakers.

Click here for our report!

Through the Legislator Education and Action Program (LEAP) developed by The Association of Washington Institute (AWBi) and the Children’s Campaign Fund Action (CCFA), the two organizations embarked on a statewide tour to promote education of and provide information about early learning and child care. The goal was to provide elected officials, business leaders, policy makers and stakeholders with information about early learning and child care and hear from communities about the issues, problems, and successes in their areas. We held regional meetings at different stops to gather information about the state of child care in our state.

During the roundtables, we conducted surveys about what challenges communities are facing regarding child care, why people think early learning is important, and how employers are responding to the child care crisis.

To view our resources compiled for the tour, please click here!