BCDI NYS 2025 Policy Priorities
You know we are about what's good for Black children, families, and communities. We have set our top policy priorities for 2025 through the lens of improving quality of life, uplifting community connections and wellbeing.
Community-based Black Studies Programs
Let's bring Black studies home to local communities through community-based enrichment programs. Through local organizations like cultural centers and other local groups, we can immerse children and families in the beauty and richness of Black history and culture and take an approach to teaching and learning based on traditions of the African diaspora.
Child & Family Wellbeing Fund
This is simple: Invest in communities. Improve child and family wellbeing and quality of life. Stop unnecessary traumatic interventions. Save money that would have been spent on the child welfare system because most of the reports are due to poverty not abuse or maltreatment. Repeat.
Child Care
Safe, affordable, and reliable child care is a necessity, regardless whether you have children. Without access to affordable child care, our communities don't work. Literally. Our economy is built on a network of child care that allows parents to go to work and leave their children is the safe care of others. Without that network, parents and guardians can't work and earn a living. The result would be that a lot of the goods and services we use every day disappear. And the money from working families no longer flows through the economy, keeping all of us afloat. Child care offers event more benefits in terms of opportunities for parents and guardians to attend school, get health care services, etc. Moreover, children play and learn with other children and can receive services that may not be available at home that help support their healthy development and well-being. We all need child care, whether we realize it or not. Let's fight to ensure child care is accessible and affordable.
