Oregon’s Early Childhood Coalition

Improve the support for families in ERDC to find a child care provider.

$15 million

Grow the workforce by investion in pay, apprenticeships, and higher education.

To be determined

Ensure children receive nutritious meals, stabilize child care providers, and maintain funding for home based providers.

$4.5 Million

House Bill 3201

Senate Bill 5515

Create by-right zoning for child care and provide best practices & guidance for cities and counties.

Legislative Concept 4078

Secure expanded funding for early literacy, including increasing funding for Reach Out and Read.

$25 million

Restore and improve services for children with disabilities and delays eligible for Early Intervention/Early Childhood Special Education.

$24 million

LC 1415

Make recommendations for diversifying the perinatal workforce.

~$250,000

LC 2869

Expand behavioral health capacity to serve young children, 0-5, and parents.

$5 million per year

Ensure CCOs prioritize the first 1,000 days, when health and development set a foundation for future well-being.

LC 2701

Expand and sustain home visiting services across the state.

$3 million

Nurse Family Partnership empowers first time parents experiencing economic and social barriers by pairing them with a nurse home visitor who works alongside them and their children, from prenatal to age two. 

This investment is to expand and sustain home visiting services across Oregon. 

$3 million

Continue to provide the non-federal Medicaid match funding needed to provide proven NFP services.

$6.32 million

The Federal CHIPS Act provides Oregon CHIP manufacturers millions of dollars in subsidies to build the infrastructure they need to grow this sector. These investments are expected to create 10,000 new jobs and estimated $500 million in state and local tax revenues over a five-year period. This creates new demand for child care to support this workforce, however Oregon’s child care supply is far from meeting current workforce demands. This is why the CHIPS Act requires applicants to provide child care access and supply plans as part of their applications. While some businesses may be able meet part of this requirement, none are poised to meet all the federal demands. Leveraging existing state child care systems will ensure CHIPS applicants will meet application requirements.

$5 million

In 2023, the Oregon Legislature passed HB 3005 and provided $50 million in lottery bond funding for child care facilities. However, licensed home-based and small center child care providers will be better served by a general fund investment in facilities infrastructure.

$5 million

Learn more about early childhood infrastructure

Special Education services for children 0-5 increase school readiness, reduce later costs, and support families to foster life-long success. The program was funded anticipating no growth in caseloads. A $22 million investment would support 5% caseload growth.

$22 million

Healthy Families promotes child well-being and prevents neglect and abuse through in-home support. This investment will advance pay parity for staff to stabilize this workforce, allowing these proven services to reach more children and families.

$2.7 million

Nurse Family Partnership empowers first time parents experiencing economic and social barriers by pairing them with a nurse home visitor who works alongside them and their children, from prenatal to age two. This investment will ensure greater stability for services for families.

$3.16 million

Higher education is out of reach for many in early childhood. Yet access to education can increase outcomes for children and economic opportunity for providers. In 2023, the Oregon Legislature passed HB 3561 to expand this program, but failed to allocate funds to implement.

$2.5 million

From policy development through implementation, we are answerable to young children, families, and communities. As we continue to learn from historic injustice and take corrective action, we will also acknowledge and learn from our own missteps and take action to repair harm. 

Solutions must be built with families and communities to work for them. We commit ourselves to policy building and decision-making led by and for Black, Indigenous, people of color, and other families and community partners historically excluded from policy and budget decisions. 

We perceive our well-being and the well-being of the children, families, and communities we advocate with as essentially connected. We ground our work in the belief that happy, healthy development is a collective social responsibility and a fundamental right of all children.

We pursue justice for Oregon’s youngest children and families through non-transactional, long-term, and evolving relationship and trust-building. We are committed to equipping parents and partners with the support they need to drive change on their own terms.