I strongly support and appreciate the Press Herald editorial board’s recent Sunday editorial “Troubling child welfare report should light a fire under Maine” (Our View, April 30). The Maine Children’s Alliance 2023 Maine Kids Count Data Book that the editorial refers to not only lays out the challenges facing Maine, but also lists many policy […]
Maine’s 15 YMCA serve thousands of children in our early childhood education programs, before/afterschool programs, and summer camp. These programs provide children with safe, nurturing and enriching care, and are a critical component of our state’s infrastructure to support working parents and our economy. Unfortunately, the child care system is under incredible strain. The Ys, […]
“Child care workers are disappearing.” As a family child care educator, I echo this statement from Camelia Babson Haley in her recent letter to the editor (“Without child care, Maine’s economy stalls,” May 16). Maine has lost 43 family child care programs in just the past year. One bill that can help reverse this decline […]