WE NEED YOUR HELP!
The New York State Legislature is back in session in January and we need them to focus on the sustainability of the childcare industry. Senator Ortt's office recommends our network of supporters contacts their local representatives and let them know about these issues and the action we need to see! Please follow these steps and forward any politician's response to nyschildcareowners@gmail.com. Happy New Year! Let's claim a victory in 2024!
2.) Click the blue button "Message Senator"
3.) Copy his/her e-mail address and copy, paste, and send the below e-mail
Follow these steps to contact your assemblymember too!
1) Find your assemblymember HERE
2) Click the blue button "Visit Assemblymember's Page"
3) Click the "Contact" tab with the envelope icon
4) Copy his/her e-mail address and copy, paste, and send the below e-mail
COPY AND PASTE THIS E-MAIL TEMPLATE:
Dear representative,
I am asking for your attention and focus on the regulatory system that is destroying the NYS childcare industry and support Andrew Hevesi's legislative bill A7945. NYS childcare providers are exiting the industry in droves, creating childcare deserts across the state. The primary reasons for growing childcare deserts, burnout, decreasing number of available slots, and increasing disinterest in the field are the oppressive regulatory enforcement system, increasing barriers to entry with lack of support, criminalization of compliance reporting, and vilifying providers by the governing state agencies. This has generated an increasingly tense, accusatory environment of distrust, entitlement, and disrespect amongst the families and children we serve, is affecting childcare program's insurability unfairly, and is extinguishing the passion providers once possessed.
Please review the associated petition (https://www.change.org/NYSChildcarePolicyReform and find 10 examples in the petition updates from childcare providers of every modality statewide demonstrating the oppression and reform needed and support Andrew Hevesi's legislative bill A7945.
Thank you for representing my district and supporting what matters most.