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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:
Anyone with a legal question or question about laws relating to child care may call our Information and Referral Line at (415) 394-7144 between 12 and 3 p.m. Pacific Time on Mondays and Thursdays to speak with a staff attorney or a law student working under the supervision of an attorney. Callers can receive information on 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 (including providers' rights vis-à-vis landlords).
CCLC is committed to providing the broadest possible language access. We have Spanish and Mandarin speakers on-site. In addition, CCLC subscribes to the Language Line, which provides specially trained interpreters for 155 languages, including Arabic, Vietnamese, Korean, Japanese, Cantonese, and Tagalog.
Our Information and Referral Line helps over 800 people each year. Examples of calls include: a low- income family child care provider in California threatened with eviction for providing child care services in her rented home; a mother leaving public assistance for work at a minimum wage job who needs subsidized child care; a parent whose child has been turned away from a child care center because he needs assistance with toileting due to a disability. In each instance, the Child Care Law Center was able to inform the caller of his or her legal rights and options to bring about a successful resolution to the problem.
CCLC's ability to provide legal information specific to your situation depends on the type of issue you are facing, the support you need, and other factors.
The Child Care Law Center’s inexpensive publications help parents and providers understand critical legal issues in child care. Topics covered in our publications range from helping parents understand how to write a contract with their child care provider; to educating the public on why child care is critical to successful welfare reform; to helping family child care providers navigate local land use regulations.
Our trainings on implementing the Americans with Disabilities Act in the child care setting have taught thousands of child care providers how to include children with disabilities in their programs. Training is also available on:
CCLC sponsored the first training symposium of local government child care coordinators in California and has delivered hundreds of presentations, conference workshops, and seminars to child care providers, program directors, and resource & referral personnel on a full range of legal issues. If you would like more information about setting up a training please contact us at info@childcarelaw.org.
CCLC plays a key role in developing and advocating for a broad vision of early care and education and positive systemic change. A majority of our work is in California, but we work on selected issue in other states as well. We analyze legislation and state budget actions, help policymakers understand the complex and interconnected child care and development issues they address, comment on and participate in the creation of regulations, and testify before the Legislature.
CCLC represents the interests of California’s lowest income and most vulnerable families in the development of state policy, law and budget priorities that reflect a long-term vision of a comprehensive and fair child care system that meets the needs of families and children who face multiple barriers to affordable, high quality child care.