FACT SHEET 2004
for student parents, for children, for our nation CCAMPIS is a Proven Success! Child Care Access Means Parents in School Has Been a Success!
- For STUDENT PARENTS: Campus child care helps students enroll and remain in college, graduate more quickly, find jobs and earn more in their lifetime.
- For CHILDREN: Campus child care helps them be successful in school, need fewer costly services and earn more in their lifetime.
- For OUR NATION: The success of parents and their children makes our nation strong, leading to lasting economic and social benefits. Child Care Access Means Parents in School Has Been a Success!
Four hundred and thirty-one colleges and universities have received awards under the CCAMPIS Program& opening new centers, new preschool and infant toddler classrooms, new after-school and family day care services& providing subsidies and sliding fee scales& running new kindergarten, summer child care, and emergency backup and evening programs. Many thousands of low-income students can now enroll, study, graduate and become contributing members of society.
But! CCAMPIS funding has been cut from $25 million to $16 million and President Bush has proposed to leave this cut in place! And the HEA Reauthorization needs new language to make it possible for all institutions of higher education to apply because CCAMPIS still serves only a tiny percentage of the nation's colleges. Because of the CCAMPIS cut 21% of present grantees, 87 colleges and universities, have lost funding. Of the over 4,000 institutions of higher education, NOT ONE MORE will be able to apply. And student parents are dropping out of college, becoming liabilities, rather than resources for our country.
National Coalition for Campus Children's CentersStand Up for CCAMPIS!
Campus child care programs combine two powerful engines to our economy:
Higher Education and Quality Early Care and Education. Public assistance recipients who attend college are more likely to leave welfare permanently. Graduation rates of parents whose children receive quality care are higher. Students remain in school, graduate in fewer years, have higher grade point averages and demonstrate greater persistence when their children are educated in a campus-based children's program.And children generate $3 to $7 for every $1 invested. They repeat a grade less often, need less special education, fewer social services and graduate high school at a higher rate. They have better lifetime earnings, lower rates of unemployment, fewer teen pregnancies, lower crime rates and fewer incarcerations.
What Our Leaders Say About CCAMPIS:
"Access to quality child care should not be an obstacle to job training or college studies. These grants can help parents complete school and make their career goals possible and their futures more promising."
Rod Paige, United States Secretary of Education, announcing 2001 CCAMPIS awards.
"If we want to& ensure that families are able to remain financially self-sufficient, we need to ensure that low-income parents have access to higher education and affordable and convenient child care. This is especially important in today's economy, where people need to continuously train and retrain in order to meet the demands of high-tech jobs."
Senator Olympia Snowe (R-Me), co-sponsor of original legislation.
"Increasingly, nontraditional students - with children and various job and life experiences - are filling the ranks of college classes. These students recognize the importance of college to future success. But they face barriers. Many are parents and must provide for their children while in school. Campus-based child care is a vital necessity for parents attending college."
Senator Christopher Dodd (D-Conn), co-sponsor of original legislation.
Because eligibility for most child care subsidies favors those with jobs, or in work experience programs; and because these funds are disbursed by local districts, student parents can rarely access them. CCAMPIS is the ONLY national program that helps low income student parents attend college, stay in school and get jobs they can keep. But to continue this successful program, the federal government must:
- Appropriate $25 million for Child Care Access Means Parents in School
- Improve the CCAMPIS Language in the Higher Education Act
For further information contact:
Mark Bittner, Public Policy Chair
National Coalition for Campus Children's Centers
307-742-0578
marlee@uwyo.edu
http://www.campuschildren.org/
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