Kaci, Thank you for bringing this website to our attention. With everything we've learned in this class I was really discouraged about the state of child care for working parents. I hated to hear about children that are too young to fend for themselves, having to, because there's no choice. I find it encouraging that programs like this exist, though I agree, if you need these programs you probably can't afford the internet, but hopefully when they go to places like the unemployment office, they are given information about it in the way of pamphlets or wall-postings with phone numbers. Another obstacle that I think we often overlook is pride. I think a lot of families who would benefit from these programs probably don't because they are the ones who would never want to take "a handout." I took the liberty of perusing the website myself and I saw "the Cradle to Prison Pipeline Campaign" and I thought, "what the heck is that?" I was aware that minority children had a greater chance of spending time in prisons than non-minority children, but I had no idea that the numbers were that dismal ( 1 in 3 black children and 1 in 6 Latino children born in 2001 will at some point in their life spend time in prison). That is alarming and paints a picture of the help that our youth need. I was also encouraged to read that there are groups who work to identify these problem and step in and remedy them to try to reverse these numbers. It's amazing to think that, as cited, something as easy as educating them and helping them develop in early childhood as well as giving them access to physical and mental healthcare can impede or erase many of these statistic. I wouldn't have seen the correlation or drawn the parallels without having explored this website.
Thank you for bringing this website to our attention. With everything we've learned in this class I was really discouraged about the state of child care for working parents. I hated to hear about children that are too young to fend for themselves, having to, because there's no choice. I find it encouraging that programs like this exist, though I agree, if you need these programs you probably can't afford the internet, but hopefully when they go to places like the unemployment office, they are given information about it in the way of pamphlets or wall-postings with phone numbers. Another obstacle that I think we often overlook is pride. I think a lot of families who would benefit from these programs probably don't because they are the ones who would never want to take "a handout." I took the liberty of perusing the website myself and I saw "the Cradle to Prison Pipeline Campaign" and I thought, "what the heck is that?" I was aware that minority children had a greater chance of spending time in prisons than non-minority children, but I had no idea that the numbers were that dismal ( 1 in 3 black children and 1 in 6 Latino children born in 2001 will at some point in their life spend time in prison). That is alarming and paints a picture of the help that our youth need. I was also encouraged to read that there are groups who work to identify these problem and step in and remedy them to try to reverse these numbers. It's amazing to think that, as cited, something as easy as educating them and helping them develop in early childhood as well as giving them access to physical and mental healthcare can impede or erase many of these statistic. I wouldn't have seen the correlation or drawn the parallels without having explored this website.