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Budget Constraints- What Can We Do? • Dedicated revenue stream - CCSP only serves 15% of eligible families.- Maryland Child Care is declining –leaving less options for families and lots of lost revenue-Maryland can’t afford not to figure this out. • Convene a state workgroup, commission, or affordability task force to develop strategies, study other states, provide a vision and identify sustainable revenue streams to fund Child Care Scholarship Program. Research states like Vermont, Connecticut, Montana, New Mexico to create recommendations on sustainable funding streams and innovative approaches to child care as our working families and our economy depends on child care! • Support and pass legislation that support smart regulations to help small businesses thrive, support proven successful workforce programs, support alternative pathways to prove competencies, support equitable expansion of mixed delivery of public PreK. • Continue to improve early care and education systems building on successes of the Ways and Means Committee, House and Senate around advocacy/legislation (HB 1441, HB 1475, HB 477, HB 859, HB 389/SB 516 property tax enable, HB 785, and consider revenue initiatives such as HB 1469 (For Our Kids Act) • Advocate! Just because there isn’t available funding today doesn’t mean planning and policy development can’t continue. We are here to engage, learn, and reimagine together through effective strategies, policies, initiatives, and move advocacy into action steps.