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Alyssa Fortner, Alycia Hardy, and Stephanie Schmit detail the importance of significant and sustained direct spending for school-age child care. This fact sheet highlights a new CLASP analysis estimating that it would cost between $48.4 billion and $79.6 billion to reach all school-age children eligible through CCDBG.
After nearly 13 years of extraordinary creativity and leadership at CLASP—and as Director of Youth Policy since 2014—Kisha Bird will depart the organization on June 4.
Stephanie Schmit was quoted in this article about the reintroduced Child Care for Working Families Act.
A CLASP fact sheet was mentioned in this article about the need to prioritize young people's mental health by making a targeted $7.5 billion investment.
Nia West-Bey was quoted about area the Biden Administration could prioritize when it comes to youth mental health.
Dr. Nia West-Bey and other New Deal for Youth changemakers were featured on a podcast about the launch of #WhyWeCantWait: A New Deal for Youth.
We urge Congress to prioritze young people's healing and wellbeing by making a targeted $7.5 billion investment -- over and above the $4 billion already proposed -- in the mental health of youth ages 16-25.
We can’t wait for economic justice. We can’t wait for healing and wellbeing. We can’t wait for safe communities. It is time for a New Deal for Youth.
Youth and maternal mental health are critical targets for systems and policy change. Between 2018 and 2020, the Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP) engaged state and local leaders in technical assistance initiatives targeting mental health systems and policy change in several jurisdictions.
CLASP helped lead the development of these child care and early learning recommendations to the Biden-Harris transition team. We were one of 187 organizations that endorsed these recommendations to ensure a strong, equitable child care and early learning system that not only benefits children, families, and early educators but also keeps women in the workforce, increases racial equity, and strengthens our economy for everyone.