Introducing Our New Staff Member, Helen Barrios
Our team is expanding! This month, Care That Works and Building Pathways welcomed Helen Barrios, the new Care That Works Program Coordinator. Helen Barrios is a first-generation Guatemalan with a [...]
$5,600,000 in American Rescue Plan Act Funds allocated to support child care centers and essential workers’ access to early childhood programming
Today Mayor Michelle Wu and the Mayor’s Office of Early Childhood announced the recipients of grants totaling $5,600,000 from the Essential Worker and Stimulus and Stability [...]
Office of Early Childhood Education receives boost in child care funding
On Tuesday, July 26, the Care That Works Coalition joined the Office of Early Childhood Education and Mayor Michelle Wu as she signed an executive order to increase the opportunity to raise [...]
Building Back Better: reimagining the Care Economy
Child care is an essential need for parents in the workforce: People can’t work if they don’t have the security that their families are being cared for. Due to generations of underinvestment in [...]
A Massachusetts child tax credit would relieve families
“Families face tough times as child tax credit ends” (Page A1, Jan. 24) exposes the heartbreaking reality of working-class families with young kids. Families depend on multiple forms of [...]
WHEN IT TAKES A VILLAGE . . . AND A DAY CARE . . . AND A TAEKWONDO INSTRUCTOR TO RAISE A CHILD
Anyone who’s counted on a child-care provider in order to keep their own job knows just how essential — how fundamental — that labor is to a functioning, equitable society. Yet somehow, there’s [...]
Op-ed: Expand the Massachusetts Child Tax Credit for immediate child care relief
Families hit hard by the pandemic need child care relief. Trillions of dollars in social infrastructure spending may soon come down the pipeline for our state to start building a universal child [...]
Partnership Alert: Community Labor United Partners with Boston Children’s Collaboration for Community Health
We are excited to announce that Care That Works will be receiving $300,000 over the next three years from Community Labor United’s selection as a Boston Children’s Collaboration for Community [...]
Press Release: Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley Visits Child Care Home Amidst Calls for a Just Recovery
Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley Visits Child Care Home Amidst Calls for a Just Recovery Congresswoman and Care That Works Coalition call for a universal, equitable, and flexible child care [...]
Webinar: Accessing child care vouchers
Communities of color, working families, and low-income families across Massachusetts are facing the brunt of the high cost of child care in conjunction with the effects of the pandemic. Before [...]
