Local Ys support childcare access funding legislation
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The Alliance of Massachusetts YMCAs is backing early education and after-school care reform bills that seek to make high-quality child care more accessible to working families and stabilize providers.
The YMCAs are working with legislative sponsors on HD808 and SD481, An Act to Preserve Early Education Support for Families. The bills would make it feasible for early education and out-of-school time providers to direct more financial aid to families that do not qualify for child care subsidies but still need assistance and Common Start Universal Early Education legislation.
YMCA associations on the North Shore and Metro North regions are banding together to raise awareness about families struggling to afford child care. Together, the YMCA of the North Shore, YMCA of Metro North, Merrimack Valley YMCA and Danvers Community YMCA provide $1.8 million financial assistance to those unable to qualify for state subsi
By Taylor Ann Bradford Staff Writer Dec 28, 2020
When the coronavirus pandemic hit stateside, it affected everyone.
Businesses closed, schools shut down, and services for those in need became harder to maintain with limited staff and new regulations.
For Beverly-based nonprofit Family Promise, which provides shelter, food, and job support for homeless families, the tightening restrictions and risk of contamination caused them to lose their rotational emergency shelter â a network of community partners that house families with children in different locations each week.
Enter the YMCA of the North Shore.
With a three-bedroom apartment available, the YMCA donated the space to Family Promise in order to welcome two new families into its program.