EXCERPT FROM: The Bristol Press
By Lisette Velasquez
NEW BRITAIN — The New Britain Early Childhood Collaborative will host an early childhood forum at Central Connecticut State University Monday to discuss early childhood initiatives and achievements.
EXCERPT FROM: The CT Mirror
By Jacqueline Rabe
Last month, childcare centers were bracing themselves for another round of major budget cuts from the state as lawmakers grappled with closing a billion dollar budget hole.
EXCERPT FROM: The CT Mirror
By Jacqueline Rabe
Della Fothergill says she is able to work full time because the state helps pay for her childcare expenses.
EXCERPT FROM: The CT Mirror
By Jacqueline Rabe
The House overwhelmingly passed a bill requiring that parents and childcare providers be given 30-days' notice before enrollment closes or eligibility requirements change for the state's daycare subsidies.
EXCERPT FROM: Hartford Courant
By CT Early Childhood Alliance
Child care can be one of the most expensive items in a parent's budget, but it is also one of the most important. Not only does child care allow parents to go to work, but a high-quality early learning environment can contribute enormously to the healthy development - language, behavioral, academic and social development - of young children.
EXCERPT FROM: The Day
By Matt Collette
Groton - A meeting over the fate of a child care center at Groton's Fairview, an elder care facility run by the Odd Fellows Home of Connecticut, was rife with emotion Thursday evening, with distraught parents questioning the site's top administrator, who told them Monday the center would be closing because it was losing money.
HARTFORD, Conn. — A program that helps thousands of Connecticut welfare recipients find work has been in limbo for two months. Family resource centers, which provide child care, adult education, and other services, have shut their doors.
It's like winning the lottery, but then being told how the money has to be spent.
STAMFORD -- Last Friday, Wyteria Bates, a 32-year-old single mother from Stamford, learned she'd lost her teaching job at Childcare Learning Centers.
For 43 years, the East Allen Family Resource Center has operated under various names and provided various services to people in New Haven and eastern Allen County.