"Children Learning, Parents Earning, Communities Growing" | |
January 6, 2025 | Issue #1 | |
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January 2025 Featured Agency Highlight
Valley Oak Children's Services
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Community based public and private Alternative Payment Programs (APPs) support the needs of working moms and dads with access to child care and other supports earmarked to lift families up from poverty. During the pandemic, these programs have distributed emergency essential worker child care vouchers, family child care and center stipends & PPE, diapers, food and clothing. Throughout California, these APPs may also support parental choice to CalWORKs Stages 2 & 3, preschool and center-based programs, general child care, After School Education and Safety (ASES), Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP), Family Child Care Home Education Networks (FCCHENs), transportation, behavioral & mental health services, respite, regional centers, health and safety, 21st Century, resource libraries, and Trustline.
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Valley Oak Children’s Services is a dynamic organization focusing on healthy children, families, and a thriving community. We have a wide variety of services developed based on the needs of our community.
Valley Oak Children’s Services was founded in 1980 as a private, non-profit organization, serving children and families in Butte County.
Establishing Agencies like Valley Oak Children’s Services throughout California was an economic support for the community. Child care businesses were beginning to thrive, parents received assistance with finding reliable and safe child care, and businesses could grow because they had a stable workforce.
Funding is provided to Valley Oak Children’s Services to assist low-income parents in paying for child care costs so they could work, go to school or enter a training program that would assist them in becoming self-sufficient.
We offer child care resources, child care payment assistance, free books for literacy, child care Food Program, Early Head Start, Behavioral Health Services, workshops, trainings and more!
We are a strength-based organization focusing on what’s strong not what’s wrong. Our goal is to have children learning, parents earning, and our community growing!
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Get to know them and the full scope of their work by reading their Impact Report highlighting how they are supporting the needs of family child care providers and families in Butte County. | |
Registration is OPEN for the 6th Annual "Lifting Up Families" Advocacy Day! | |
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On January 22, 2025, Thriving Families California will join statewide and community partners, family child care providers, and parents in Sacramento to advocate for raising child care rates, strengthening critical safety net programs and lifting up the needs of whole families.
Attendees will hear from legislative champions committed to strengthening our safety net programs, protecting the progress and honoring the promises of the last legislative sessions, and building up supportive services in 2025-26. California’s lowest income working parents continue in a downward spiral unable to meet the most basic of needs for their children. In order to help families be more successful and break the cycle of poverty, programs that help them secure basic services such as child care, food, housing, and mental health must be resourced.
Click here to register. This advocacy day will be virtual and in-person. Please indicate on the registration whether you will be virtual or interested in attending in-person. In-person location will be Downtown Sacramento, walking distance to the Capitol.
Please reach out to mckenzie@thrivingfamilies-ca.org if you would like to be involved in the planning process and/or add your logo!
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