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What's New:
2008 Solano County Child Care
Needs
Assessment
(pdf 5.1 mb)
Spring 2009 Newsletter
(pdf 268 kb)
Video:
Child Care - An Investment Worth Making
Volunteers needed
2008 EITC returns are in.
Significant Issues Report
(December 2008, pdf 63kb)
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Proposed State
Budget Will Decimate Children’s Services: Act Now!!
As parents and
grandparents, teachers and nurses, faith-leaders and students we
must make our voices heard on behalf of our children! We must insist
on a budget that
balances cuts with revenues, because the cuts we would sustain
otherwise will lead to an unprecedented number of homeless and
hungry children in our community.
Solano
County has been especially hard hit by the recession – our
foreclosure rate is one of the highest in the
nation. Requests
for assistance with basic needs have gone up by as much as 300%
at our Family Resource Centers. Our school districts are closing
multiple school sites. There is already disruption and despair
throughout our county. Additional cuts to children’s programs
would be utterly devastating.
The Governor’s
Proposals include:
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Eliminating CalWorks entirely,
which would almost overnight add about 16,000 women and
children to the ranks of homeless and hungry people in
Solano
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Eliminating the Healthy
Families Program – the low cost health insurance program for
kids that covers over 5000 local children
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Additional severe cuts to all
aspects of education, from child development programs to
state universities
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Additional severe cuts to
Child Welfare and Foster Care
We can stop this insanity if we all pull together!!
Please join the
Children’s Network in insisting the budget issues be resolved in
a balanced way – we must include new revenues, not just more
cuts!! Take these two steps to save our kids:
Be informed:
Take Action:
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If you can go to Sacramento
June 16th, there is large faith-based protest rally planned.
An updated flyer is
here
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The Governor has asked the
public to contact him with their budget suggestions via
Twitter. Tell him to raise revenues! Tweet to
#myidea4CA
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Post
your concerns on your facebook or myspace page, use your
email lists, or reach out to your friends and colleagues in
other ways to encourage them to join you in voicing
opposition to these draconian budget proposals
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Send letters to your
legislators and the governor via email, in person at local
offices, or overnight mail.
Sample letter
here.
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Call your legislators today,
tomorrow, throughout the week as these decisions are being
made (contact info below)
Many of you
participated with us in the local campaign to defeat props 1D
and 1E; we were the underdogs, but we won because each of us
took the steps we could, whether by donating or by phone banking
or by simply and most profoundly voting the thoughtful way.
Let’s continue to be united in speaking up for kids.
These budget proposals are not a
done deal. Together we can make a difference!!
Contact info for Legislators:
Senator Patricia Wiggins
State Capitol Building, Room 4081
Sacramento, CA 95814
Phone: (916) 651-4002
Fax: (916) 323-6958
Website:
http://dist02.casen.govoffice.com
email :
http://legplcms01.lc.ca.gov/PublicLCMS/ContactPopup.aspx?district=SD02
District Office:
Vallejo
444 Georgia Street
Vallejo, CA 94590
Phone: (707) 648-5312
Fax: (707) 648-5383
Senator Lois Wolk
State Capitol
Building, Room 4032
Sacramento, CA 95814
Phone: (916) 651-4005
Fax: (916) 323-2304
Website:
http://dist05.casen.govoffice.com
Email:
http://legplcms01.lc.ca.gov/PublicLCMS/ContactPopup.aspx?district=SD05
District Office:
Vacaville:
555 Mason Street, Suite 230
Vacaville, CA 95687
Phone: (707) 454-3808
Fax: (707) 454-3811
Assemblywoman Noreen Evans
State Capitol
3152 State Capitol,
California 94249-0007
Phone: (916) 319-2007
Fax: (916) 319-2107
Website:
http://democrats.assembly.ca.gov/members/a07/default.htm
Email:
Assemblymember.Evans@assembly.ca.gov
District Office:
Vallejo:
1713 Sonoma Blvd
Vallejo, CA 94590
Phone: (707) 649-2307
Fax: (707) 649-2311
Assemblywoman Mariko Yamada
State Capitol
P.O. Box 942849
Sacramento, CA 94249-0008
Phone: (916) 319-2008
Fax: (916) 319-2108
Website:
http://democrats.assembly.ca.gov/members/a08/
Email:
http://legplcms01.lc.ca.gov/PublicLCMS/ContactPopup.aspx?district=AD08&
District Office
555 Mason Street, Suite 275
Vacaville, CA 95688
Phone: (707) 455-8025
Fax: (707) 455-0490
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