The Urban Child Institute

TN Families Need Affordable Childcare! Please consider signing the petition to support the Promising Futures Act (SB750/HB785)
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Tennessee Child Care Crisis: A study by Tennesseans for Quality Early Education (TQEE) revealed that more than 80 percent of working parents reported employment disruptions due to inadequate child care, citing affordability, quality, and access as major challenges. Many reported recently quitting, being fired, or turning down a job offer or promotion as a result of child care problems. And one in five stopped seeking employment altogether.

Tennessee Promising Futures would offer child care scholarships for lower-income and middle-income parents. https://www.promisingfuturestn.org/

Introducing a scholarship for Tennessee's littlest learners - Sign The Petition! Promising Futures - a scholarship program for children through age 5 to attend high-quality early care and learning programs - will help Tennessee children get a head start on their future, while giving working families a chance to thrive. But we need your support to ensure state policymakers pass t...

Check out this terrific volunteer opportunity to help get 30,000 new books into the hands of Shelby County children! Can you spare 3 hours during the week of May 3-7?

Volunteer with LMS - Book Sort

Let’s ensure all caregivers have access to the supports they need in order to engage in positive interactions with young children.

How Toxic Stress Affects Us, and What We Can Do About It For those who've experienced toxic stress, just getting through the day can feel tough, let alone being the best parents or caregivers you can be. In this vi...

Communities can reduce neglect by offloading stress & supporting adults to develop skills to engage in brain building 'serve and return' interactions.

How Toxic Stress Affects Us, and What We Can Do About It For those who've experienced toxic stress, just getting through the day can feel tough, let alone being the best parents or caregivers you can be. In this vi...

The expansion of this program to include Regional One Health along with Methodist South Hospital will provide books and other early literacy-promoting materials to around 4000 Mid-South families with new babies in 2021! #

Bluff City Baby: Local program promotes early literacy for newborns ""

Welcome, Bluff City Baby! Introducing Elyan and his proud parents, Natazia and Deshundrick. Elyan was the first baby born in 2021 at Methodist South Hospital. Now housed at Literacy Mid-South, Bluff City Baby has added Regional One Health for 2021!

https://www.ymcamemphis.org/childcare/virtual-learning-locations/

Virtual Learning Locations The Y makes accessible the support and opportunities that empower people and communities to learn, grow and thrive.

Check out (and please share) this terrific presentation by Memphis' own, Pastor Charlie Caswell.

Pastor Charles Caswell - ACEs Summit - Memphis TN - January 20, 2020 Pastor Charles Caswell, Executive Director of Legacy of Legends, makes a presentation at the ACEs Summit at Martin Luther King High School in Memphis. Advers...

Accurate data are critical to target resources to the communities that need them the most – a priority for philanthropy. Read this letter from 480 philanthropic leaders (including UCI) demanding that the census count not be cut short by a month so everyone has the opportunity to be counted.

Funders' Committee for Civic Participation Bringing Together Grantmakers Committed To Enhancing Democratic Participation In All Aspects Of Civic Life