OUR MISSION

Here at Lift Each Other Up, LLC, we’re committed to investing our expertise and resources in order to research and promote resilience, and the practices and policies that support enhanced resilience in children, families, early educators and others engaged in family support. 

 

We have recently developed policy briefs, spotlights and infographics which have: 
 

• supported the now successful national quest for $50 billion in federal relief funds for child care ($10 billion enacted in 2020 and $40 billion enacted in March 2021, as part of the American Rescue Plan);
   

• successfully called to prioritize the child care workforce for the COVID vaccines in California, in collaboration with Janis Lambert Connallon of the Children’s Defense Fund California and Senator Josh Becker and his staff;

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• developed policy spotlights that highlight creative vaccine distribution strategies that bring vaccines close to where the ECE workforce lives and works; 
   

• co-developed a $54 million health insurance outreach/navigator initiative, with State Senator Josh Becker and his staff, and with Janis Lambert Connallon of the Children’s Defense Fund of California and Jose Vargas of United Ways California. This initiative will provide outreach about and offer enrollment in MediCal or Covered California subsidies throughout the entire state of California to early educators (including family child care educators), the children and the families they serve;
   

• assisted with the development of AB 1117,  (Wicks (AD-15) the Healthy Start: Toxic Stress and Trauma Resiliency for Children Program, proposed legislation sponsored by the Children’s Defense Fund California and United Ways of California, which will fund community health workers at schools and early care and education sites to connect children, families and educators to health and mental health services;
   

• provided thought partnership and collaboration with other child care leaders regarding California initiatives designed to advance early care and education opportunities throughout the state.

 

Just imagine what we can achieve together!

 

Our latest policy spotlight: Vaccines Into Arms by Farihah Hossain, JD and Peggy Daly Pizzo M.Ed, Ed.M.