I well understand the importance of a quality early childhood education because I see its benefits every day in my granddaughter.

The Child Care Council of Westchester is dedicated to ensuring every child in Westchester has access to such an education.

Supporting the Council during this years' Giving Tuesday enables us to grant scholarships to families struggling to provide that education to their young children.

Thank you for your generosity...it goes a long way!

Jeff

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Do you believe as we do that all doors should be open to every child, no matter their family’s financial circumstances? Quality child care is the key to all that comes after, but in Westchester, even the hardest working families struggle to afford it. This leaves parents with heartbreaking decisions to make, and many children without the safe, loving care and learning opportunities that the rest of their lives depend on.

This year for #GivingTuesday  - December 3, 2019 – our goal is to raise $20,000 for the Child Care Council’s Key to the Future Fund, which will provide early education scholarships to children most in need.

We want to make sure no parent has to choose between child care and health insurance. We want to make sure no child starts kindergarten at a disadvantage she will never be able to recover from, but on equal footing, and ready to achieve. We want to make sure no working mom loses or job or has to give up on her career dreams, because she can’t afford reliable child care.

What we do want, and work toward every day, is a Westchester where safe, affordable, quality early care and education is available to ALL children from the day they’re born, because the first 5 years of brain development is the key everything: early literacy and math skills, moving grade to grade on time, to high school and college graduation, higher career earnings and lifelong social, emotional and physical health. It reduces the need for special education, and makes a young person less likely to try drugs, get pregnant as a teenager, or enter the juvenile justice system.

Quality child care saves money, and even saves lives.

On #GivingTuesday, please consider a donation to our Key to the Future Fund. Any amount you can give is an important contribution to a child’s success, a parent’s peace of mind, and a better future for our entire community.

We thank you in advance for your support!