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Advocating for children, families and communities facing barriers to high quality child care. | |
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Advocating for children, families and communities facing barriers to high quality child care. | |
The Child Care Law Center provides:
As a support center for California legal aid programs, the Child Care Law Center offers a wide range of services to keep advocates informed of constantly changing child care laws, regulations, and policies. Our familiarity with front-line legal work allows us to tailor our services to meet the needs of legal aid advocates. In our day-to-day work, we support attorneys and advocates who work in legal aid programs by answering their questions about child care law, conducting trainings on relevant issues, publishing manuals and other materials, informing them about new legal developments, and co-counseling. These relationships also give us a unique window into emerging issues in low-income communities.
The Child Care Law Center, in partnership with legal aid attorneys, undertakes impact litigation to protect the rights of low-income families to child care and the rights of low-income child care providers to their livelihood. A case filed in 2010, Parent Voices Oakland v. O'Connell, helped restore child care funding for the families of more than fifty thousand children across California.
The Child Care Law Center provides legal information and referrals about laws relating to child care through our Legal Information and Referral Service. We address a wide variety of topics, including the rights to child care of parents in welfare-to-work programs, inclusion of children with disabilities and special health care needs in child care, child care subsidies, and rights and responsibilities of child care providers. Click here to access our Legal Information and Referral Service.
The Child Care Law Center conducts trainings and produces written material to expand understanding and awareness of legal issues that concern child care. Topics include child care subsidies, licensing regulations affecting child care providers, care for children with special needs, and providing family child care.
The Child Care Law Center provides legal expertise on discrete cutting-edge policy developments that affect child care.
ACCESS: Preserve and increase access to good early care and education for low-income families
SELF-SUFFICIENCY: Protect the livelihood of low-income child care providers
INCLUSION: Promote effective inclusion of children with disabilities and special health care needs in child care settings
LEADERSHIP: Identify cutting-edge legal issues at the intersection of child care law and other areas and contribute to their development