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Chanting “No cuts to child care” and “Yes we can,” 500 UFT-represented family child care providers rallied against the mayor’s plans to cut subsidized child care for close to 16,000 low-income children, at Harlem’s historic Alhambra Ballroom on April 24.
UFT President Michael Mulgrew testified before the New York State Assembly Standing Committees on Children and Families; Oversight, Analysis and Investigation; Social Services; and the Assembly Taskforce on Women's Issues.
About 5,000 family child care providers will soon be receiving an assortment of toys, books, puzzles and blocks — all linked to a literacy-based curriculum developed by the UFT Teacher Center — thanks to grant money in their first union contract and an American Federation of Teachers innovation grant.
Tax season is upon us, but don’t despair — help is at hand. The Food Bank For New York City, a longtime friend of the UFT, offers free income tax preparation services for eligible New York City residents at dozens of sites across the city.
It’s important to serve healthy food and snacks for the children in your care. Here’s an example of an easy to prepare recipe you can try in your home.
The UFT on Feb. 2 filed a class action suit against the city’s Administration for Children’s Services and the Hunts Point Multi-Service center — a non-profit social service agency — to recover an estimated $100,000 in funds that the organizations have refused to pay more than 40 home day care providers in the Bronx.
Testifying at a Dec. 12 state hearing, UFT Family Child Care Providers Chapter Chair Tammie Miller made clear her union’s concerns about both funding cuts to early childhood education and a new city initiative, Early Learn NYC, which threatens the livelihood of many of the UFT’s 28,000 providers.
Although there is universal agreement that what happens with children before they reach preschool is key to their chances for successful learning later in life, child care providers all too frequently are excluded when it comes to outstanding professional development and collegial support that could help them make the earliest years a chance to prepare children for school success.
El seguro médico negociado por los proveedores de cuido infantil representados por la UFT en su primer contracto con el estado se hará realidad muy pronto. Los proveedores recibirán cobertura bajo el programa UFT Family Health Plus, un programa de seguro médico auspiciado por el estado de Nueva York y ofrecido exclusivamente a proveedores de la UFT mediante el Plan de Seguro Médico de Nueva York (HIP por sus siglas en ingles) de EmblemHealth.
The health insurance negotiated for UFT-represented family child care providers in their first contract with the state will soon be a reality. Providers will receive coverage through the UFT Family Health Plus program, a New York State-sponsored health insurance program offered exclusively to UFT providers through EmblemHealth’s Health Insurance Plan of Greater New York (HIP).
Linette Ebanks had always read storybooks to the children who attend her child care program, Little People’s Retreat, in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. But then she was shown the “picture walk,” a technique to more actively engage children during story time by showing them pictures from a book before reading it and asking them what they think it will be about.
Tammie Miller, UFT Family Child Care Providers chapter chair, testified before the New York State Senate Standing Committee on Children and Families.
The UFT resolves to initiate and support efforts to ensure that child care providers receive timely compensation with appropriate year-end tax statements, and to oppose blatant non-payment of compensation, unfair administration fees, poor program support services and any type of discrimination directed at network providers.
This year will be a great one for New York City’s 28,000 family child care providers. After years of waiting, the benefits in our contract that have not yet been implemented will go into effect over the next nine months. Chief among these is our health care coverage.
In January 2010, the UFT’s Family Child Care Providers Chapter ratified its first contract with the state, which provides for health insurance benefits for providers. Funding for professional development and grants to improve the quality of the learning environment were among the other important benefits.
A recent amendment to the public health law (PHL) § 613 requires licensed and registered child care programs to post influenza educational material, beginning this fall, in plain view within their programs. This requirement was put in place to raise awareness about the importance of immunizing children against influenza.
I’m glad to report that our chapter continues to grow and to advance the struggle for dignity for New York City’s 28,000 family child care providers. Each year, we fight for adequate child care funding for working parents and their children. Most recently, our activism helped reduce the size of the proposed city cut to child care subsidies from $91 million to $38 million.
In addition to fighting for a contract and a higher market rate for all providers, the UFT’s Family Child Care Providers Chapter also goes to bat on behalf of individual providers and small groups of providers, often taking on the abusive or unfair child care networks to which many providers belong.
After a tumultuous budget process defined by intense member advocacy and scores of protest rallies, the City Council on June 29 adopted a budget for the coming year that includes a partial restoration of funding for child care subsidies for poor and working families.
Christina Winslow has a cause, she has a concern and she says that she just may have a solution: confront community issues by helping young people reach their potential. That’s also the name of the enterprising Queens provider’s seven-year-old nonprofit, A Cause, A Concern, A Solution.
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