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Parent Voices Rallies for Child Care
at the State Capitol
  
   
Parents and families swarmed Sacramento on Stand for Children Day last spring. Their objective: advocate for increased funding for California's child care system. You can be a child care champion too - join  Parent Voices !

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Healthy Apple Video
   
New video highlights the impact of Children's Council's Healthy Apple program through the story of child care provider Zonia Torres.
Child Arts
Play with a purpose!
   
Our popular playgroups offer parents and caregivers a place to convene and for c
hildren  to make new friends. This season we introduce two new sessions: Zumba with Claudia and Sensory Interactive Play. Read More
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Staff Spotlight

Community organizing, political activism and advocacy is not just a job for Parent Voices organizer Maria Luz Torre, it's a lifelong commitment to social justice. Maria says, "I grew up in a political hot volcano, in the Philippines during martial law. I gave my first political speech when I was seven years old, at an election rally that my father was emceeing. A few months later martial law was declared."
   
2015 Annual Report
Meet some of the families and child care providers whose lives have been profoundly affected by Children's Council in our beautiful new Annual Report. 
    
Sesame Street Announces First Character with Autism










  
To combat the stigma experienced by children with autism and their families, Sesame Street recently embarked on a nationwide initiative, "See Amazing in All Children." The initiative is an extension of Sesame Street's work around diversity, acceptance and kindness.
    
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