Presentations & Audio Conferences

• Mar 19, 2013  |  Jodie Levin-Epstein Workplace Safety and Earned Sick Days: Intersections and Opportunities for Advocacy This national audio conference discusses the intersections between worker safety issues and earned sick days policies. Read Online   |   Download Audio   |   Additional PDF
• Feb 26, 2013  |  CLASP Boosting Your Bottom Line - Business Outreach Presentation for Earned Sick Days Earned sick days advocates across the country are increasingly aware of the importance of cultivating business support for sick days legislation. This presentation is a tool for advocates in the early stages of business outreach for earned sick days campaigns. It presents the business case for earned sick days laws and can be adapted to fit the needs of particular campaigns. Download File
• Feb 19, 2013  |  Christine Johnson-Staub and Stephanie Schmit Putting it Together: Financing Comprehensive Services in Child Care and Early Education This presentation, given at the 2013 AMCHP conference, drew upon CLASP's recently published Putting it Together guide to financing comprehensive services, to discuss ways that states have used a variety of federal funding streams, including the Maternal and Child Health Block Grant, Early Childhood Comprehensive Systems funds and Medicaid funds, to finance services including child care health consultants, developmental screening, and preventive health outreach in child care settings. Download File
• Feb 07, 2013  |  Jodie Levin-Epstein Employer and Employee Experiences of FMLA: Implications of the New Federal Surveys The Department of Labor (DOL) recently released the results of two new surveys on the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA). These are the first surveys conducted by the DOL on the FMLA in over a decade. Released just in time for the 20th anniversary of the passage of the FMLA, the results give us significant insight into both employer and employee experiences with this pivotal legislation. Read Online
• Jan 28, 2013  |  CLASP, Families USA and the University of California Berkeley Center for Labor Research and Education Health Reform: Implications for Part-Time Work By 2014 millions of Americans will be able to access affordable health care for the first time. ObamaCare is historic legislation that will help workers who could not get affordable care through their employers or were unable to bear the costs of self-insurance. While there is a lot to celebrate, advocates, low wage workers and others are concerned that the law's focus on coverage for full-time employees might lead some employers to cut workers' hours. Press reports have fueled this worry. Read Online Additional PDF
• Jan 23, 2013 After the Fiscal Cliff, What's Next for Early Childhood? CLASP's Hannah Matthews, NWLC's Helen Blank, and NAEYC's Adele Robinson discuss the many uncertainties that early childhood programs face as we move toward the next round of fiscal negotiations. Read Online   |   Download PDF
• Nov 16, 2012  |  Hannah Matthews, Christine Johnson-Staub, and Leanne Barrett Reaching Children Through Comprehensive Services: Exploring Local Partnerships and Federal Funding This presentation, given at the 2012 National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) annual conference in Atlanta, Georgia, looks at opportunities and strategies for using federal funding streams to support the availability of comprehensive services for young children in child care and early education settings. Download PDF
• Nov 15, 2012  |  Spotlight on Poverty and the National League of Cities Building Opportunity This audio conference explores how STEP UP is promoting opportunity and ways businesses can make a real difference in local anti-poverty efforts. The Employers in Savannah are increasingly at the forefront of new steps to provide opportunity and remove barriers to success. It's the third of a three-part "Cities Promote Opportunity" audio conference series. Read Online
• Oct 18, 2012  |  Spotlight on Poverty and The National League of Cities New City Strategies to Alleviate Poverty This audio conference highlighted how Providence, R.I. is carrying forward the work of its Poverty, Work and Opportunity Task Force and its recommendations for how the city could build opportunity for its residents. The event was sponsored by Spotlight on Poverty, which CLASP manages, and National League of Cities, Institute for Youth, Education & Families. It's the second in the three-part "Cities Promote Opportunity" audio conference series. Read Online
• Sep 25, 2012 Audio Conference: Federal Budget Roadmap - Where We're Going and What We Need to Do CLASP's Hannah Matthews alongside representatives from National Women's Law Center (NWLC) and National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) discuss the latest on federal developments that will impact child care and early education programs and funding. Read Online   |   Download PDF   |   Additional PDF
• Sep 20, 2012  |  Spotlight on Poverty and the National League of Cities "Cities Promote Opportunity" Audio Conference Series: New City Task Forces Battered by the recession like so many other cities, both Hartford, Conn. and Richmond, Va. recently established task forces to develop recommendations aimed at providing greater opportunity to area residents. This audio conference explored questions like: What are the priority recommendations in each city? What is the expectation around implementation? How will progress be assessed? And what are the key components of making job creation ideas work and stick over long the haul? Read Online
• Sep 14, 2012  |  Stephanie Schmit and Jamie Colvard Webinar: State Initiatives to Expand Early Head Start This webinar discusses the content of the new CLASP and ZERO TO THREE report, "Expanding Access to Early Head Start: State Initiatives for Infants and Toddlers at Risk." The webinar highlights how states are using innovative funding, policies, and partnerships, to expand the EHS program and better meet the needs of more low-income children and pregnant women living in their state. Read Online   |   Download PDF
• Sep 13, 2012  |  Christine Johnson-Staub and Sessy Nyman Casting a Wide Net to Support Caregivers: A Strategy to Reach the Highest Need Infants and Toddlers This presentation was given at the NARA Licensing Seminar in San Franciso, CA on September 10, 2012. "Casting a Wide Net to Support Caregivers: A Strategy to Reach the Highest Need Infants and Toddlers" discusses the relationship betwee family, friend, and neighbor (FFN) care and existing child care quality initiatives, as well as how home visiting can be used as an FFN quality strategy. Download PDF
• Sep 06, 2012  |  Christine Johnson-Staub and Hannah Matthews Webinar: Putting it Together: Financing Comprehensive Services in Child Care and Early Education This webinar focuses on CLASP's new publication, which details how states can look beyond the major sources of child care and early education funding and consider alternative federal financing sources to bring comprehensive services into early childhood settings. Learn about the different federal funding streams, hear examples of what other states and communities have done to finance comprehensive services, and begin exploring how to use the funding streams in your own state. Read Online   |   Download PDF
• Jul 25, 2012 How State and Local Advocates Stopped Cutbacks and Achieved Successes CLASP's Hannah Matthews and NWLC's Helen Blank talk with state advocates from California, Illinois, Iowa, New Jersey, and New York about how they stopped child care cuts in their states and achieved successes in this challenging fiscal climate. Read Online   |   Download Audio
• May 31, 2012 Financing College Success: Innovations to Promote Readiness, Access, and Completion Evelyn Ganzglass, director of Workforce Development at CLASP, presented on the panel Financing College Success: Innovations to Promote Readiness, Access, and Completion on May 31 at the New America Foundation. Ms. Ganzglass discussed specific issues related to community college affordability and focus on a range of interventions that aim to improve community college success, including building assets, accessing public benefits, emergency loans, financial literacy education, and work opportunities more conducive to full-time attendance at school. Read Online
• May 24, 2012  |  Rhonda Bryant Webinar on Connecting to Jobs: Local Strategies and Policy Approaches to Employ Black Men Although the national unemployment rate is dropping, unemployment in the black community remains significantly higher than the rate for whites or the general population. In particular, black male youth and young adults are up against a major struggle to launch themselves into self sufficiency, as unemployment in these age brackets is at an all-time high. Federal investment in employment initiatives has been insufficient, and few communities are engaged in targeted approaches to address the employment plight of black men. Read Online
• May 11, 2012  |  Christine Johnson-Staub Being an Effective Policy Advocate for Children and Families The presentation given to the Southeastern Massachusetts Inter-CHNA (Community Health Network Area) Conference in Plymouth, MA (May 2012) offers keys to effective public advocacy for low-income and at-risk families: identifying clear policy goals, targeting and timing advocacy efforts, and using data and personal stories to make your case. It includes strategies for identifying advocacy priorities, and how to use available data and stories to craft an effective message that will move policy priorities to the top of the list for legislators and other policy makers. Finally, the presentation provides tips for communication, relationship building, and strategy to help participants' advocacy goals succeed. Download PDF
• May 02, 2012  |  Hannah Matthews and Stephanie Schmit Finding and Using Data to Advocate Effectively for Children and Families This presentation, given at the 2012 National Smart Start Conference in Greensboro, North Carolina, provides a range of data to use to make the case for investing in young children and their families. Download PDF
• May 02, 2012  |  Christine Johnson-Staub and Stephanie Schmit Leveraging Home Visiting to Reach Children in Child Care Settings This presentation, given at the 2012 National Smart Start Conference in Greensboro, North Carolina, provides background information on home visiting, how it links to family, friend, and neighbor (FFN) care, and recommendations for states implementing home visiting programs. Download PDF