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Day Without Child Care is a moment where we show our power,

where we come together and know we are in solidarity together. On Monday, May 12th, we broke the mold together in the largest one-day work stoppage in childcare history. Some of our highlights.

  • 1,395 childcare providers closed their doors or called out with the support of the families they serve
  • Powerful childcare leaders organized 100s of events across 27 states & D.C.
  • We swarmed state Capitol buildings across the country including in Columbus, OH, Baton Rouge, LA, and St. Paul, MN, to name a few….
  • Our work gained national attention, with features on NPR and over 330 local news outlets across the country, reaching more than 186.4 million people
  • Your social media posts reached approximately 20.6 million impressions and our best count so far has 131 local, state and federal elected officials participating in or supporting events 
Press Release

We are powerful together.

Our job is to see that, to bring our community together, and bring our power. We showed up this week for the 4th National Day Without Child Care, and we’ll keep showing up until we see the results of the transformative childcare system our families deserve.

People are fed up with the interests of billionaires coming before our babies, our budgets, and our benefits. But we know that together, our voices can rise and we can win the childcare system – and the care economy – we all deserve.

Our demands include:

  1. An equitable childcare system built on racial and gender justice
  2. Thriving wages for childcare providers
  3. Affordable and accessible child care for all families.
  4. No cuts to Head Start
  5. No cuts to Medicaid/SNAP

It Takes A Village

Here are some of the partners who make this day possible.

Georgia Family Child Care Essentials Network

First UP

WEPOWER

Bright Little Scholars

Family Values @ Work

Destination Imagination Child Care & Play-school

National Women's Law Center

L.O.V.E. Your Child's Care

Family Circle Academy

Virginia Organizing

Latin American Child Care Provider Association - LACCPA

Colorado Association of Family Child Care (CAFCC)

SPACEs in Action

United Parent Leaders Action Network (UPLAN)

Colorado Association of Family Child Care (CAFCC)

Loree’s land of love and learning

Tenderloving Preschool

Destination Imagination Child Care & Play-school

For Providers By Providers

Families First in Cabarrus County

Main Street Alliance

Home Grown

Child Care for Every Family Network

All Our Kin

Center for the Study of Child Care Employment

SEIU

Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP)

National Domestic Workers Alliance

Economic Security Project Action

Indivisible

Coalition on Human Needs

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