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September 27, 2023 | Report/Brief | India Heckstall

Expand Access to Affordable High-Quality Child Care to Better Serve Black Student Fathers

By India Heckstall and Christian Collins One of the greatest flaws in the American higher education system is that it caters to students matriculating straight from high school and fails to account for the diverse lived experiences and backgrounds of all students. Student parents strive…

September 6, 2023 | Report/Brief | Deanie Anyangwe

Unified, Safe, and Well: Building Life-Affirming Systems for Justice-Impacted Families

In this report, we analyze the landscape for family-based alternative sentencing programs to assess the effectiveness of these programs in meeting their program goals.

September 5, 2023 | Report/Brief | Alejandra Londono Gomez

Child Care Assistance Spending & Participation in 2020

Child care has long been unaffordable and inaccessible for many families. The Child Care Development Fund, the primary federal funding source to help families with low incomes access child care, is a crucial support for many families. However, Congress has never funded child care at…

August 24, 2023 | Report/Brief | Suma Setty

“If the Parents Are Okay, the Children Are Okay”

The Children Thrive Action Network (CTAN), along with seven partners and one independent researcher, held listening sessions across the country to learn about the concerns, desires, and challenges of immigrant parents and youth.

August 24, 2023 | Report/Brief | Teon Hayes

Strategies to Improve the Effectiveness of SNAP’s Employment and Training Program

SNAP’s Employment and Training (E&T) program is designed to assist participants in gaining skills, training, or work experience that helps them obtain regular employment.

August 1, 2023 | Report/Brief | Alejandra Londono Gomez

Maryland’s Presumptive Eligibility Policy—and Other Innovations for Child Care Assistance

This report addresses and assesses many policies—particularly presumptive eligibility—that may be useful to other states' efforts to improve their child care subsidy programs.   

May 8, 2023 | Report/Brief | Akosua Meyers

CLASP 2022 Impact Report

In 2020, the tragic impact of the global pandemic and recession on families’ lives increased demand for our work across the board–new ideas in Congress, technical assistance to federal and state agencies, and partnerships with our advocacy colleagues. We put forth ideas during this period…

April 4, 2023 | Report/Brief | Christian Collins

Unionizing Home-Based Providers to help Address the Child Care Crisis

This brief walks through some of the history and current landscape of the child care workforce, including which states have collective bargaining policies in place for home-based child care providers, who fall outside the traditional employer-employee bargaining model and lack a mechanism for collectively organizing…

February 28, 2023 | Report/Brief | Tiffany Ferrette

Centering Black Families: Equitable Discipline through Improved Data Policies in Child Care

This brief outlines the history of inequitable disciplinary practices in child care and early education—and in the context of American society more generally.

January 12, 2023 | Report/Brief | Isha Weerasinghe

The Bipartisan Safer Communities Act: Mental Health Wins Undermined for Black and Brown Youth

This brief provides an overview of the key mental health provisions in the act, gives a timeline of expected implementation, and offers recommendations for mental health policies that center equity.

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