Missouri Governor-elect Mike Kehoe is talking priorities in the days following his election win over Democrat Crystal Quade. He laid out his plans to help solve the state’s childcare access crisis. “We’ve been very involved in childcare,” he told Missourinet. “I tell people it’s a personal issue to me. My mother’s a single mother. I can...
This Columbia-based educator will advocate for early childhood policies as Kids Win fellow. Roughly 15 months ago ago, Gabby Jauch moved to Columbia to start her career here at the University of Missouri Child Development Lab as a preschool teacher. She has worked in that field for longer than that, though. Read more at ColumbiaTribune.com ...
Kids Win Missouri chose Jennifer Books to join its Early Care and Education (ECE) Leader Fellowship, a release states. Read more at fultonsun.com ...
JEFFERSON CITY — Crystal Bass and Danielle Bopp, child advocates from Kirksville, have been selected to participate in the Kids Win Missouri Early Care and Education Leader Fellowship for 2024-2025. The fellowship was launched in 2022 to give childcare providers, parents and caretakers across the state a voice in the policymaking process and a seat...
Upward Momentum, an initiative to bring philanthropic dollars together with community-led organizations to address the often-neglected critical causes of generational poverty, has announced its initial philanthropic investments. Read more at stlamerican.com ...
The majority of babies born today will grow up to be poorer than their parents. That wasn’t always the case. If you were born in 1940, there was a 95% chance you’d grow up to be richer than your parents. These two statistics together tell a sad tale about what is happening to the American...
Leaders cite value of early investments on public safety, military preparedness Jefferson City, MO – Mission: Readiness, a national nonpartisan organization of 800 retired flag and general officers and Fight Crime: Invest in Kids, a bipartisan, national, nonprofit organization of 5,000 law enforcement leaders—including 120 in Missouri—today, joined the Missouri Champion of Children Coalition in supporting...
Jefferson City, MO – This afternoon, Governor Parson delivered his State of the State address and proposed additional investments in child care and early education in his final executive budget. Parson’s proposed investments include: $52 million in additional funding to increase child care subsidy rates currently at the 58th percentile for infants, toddlers, preschoolers, and school-aged...
Jefferson City, MO – The Missouri Champion of Children coalition, which includes child advocates, law enforcement, military, and business and healthcare leaders, cheered today’s hearing of HB 1488. The bill, sponsored by Rep. Brenda Shields (R-St. Joseph), would provide tax incentives for businesses that provide childcare to employees and provides a tax incentive to individuals...
Jefferson City, MO — The Missouri Champion of Children Coalition is applauding legislative efforts to address the ongoing childcare and early education accessibility and affordability crisis impacting Missouri families and businesses. Recent polling shows that Missourians overwhelmingly support investments in childcare and early education. Polling from October showed 86% of Missourians believed early childhood education supports kids’ success in...