I am in support of the Office of Violence Prevention being awarded the full amount of ARPA funds they have requested.
The Government Historically has fully funded every war we are involved in. Our city is in its greatest war to date. We need the funds invested to represent the expected outcome. Prevention works and the city needs to follow the Governor’s lead by heavily investing in it.
As CEO for Triple P America I write in support of ARPA proposal #56 (Johnson) which would expand access in Milwaukee to the evidence-based parenting program, Triple P. When scaled in communities Triple P has demonstrated decreased rates of maltreatment for children; lower stress for parents; and improved self-regulation which connects to impulse control and problem-solving—both critical skills in reducing violence. Furthermore, by including the Triple P Online course, this proposal would remove common barriers for parents to have access to evidence-based parenting support including service eligibility, transportation, and childcare, and assure parents in the Milwaukee neighborhoods most impacted by the pandemic have equitable access to effective support.
As a Milwaukee resident, as VP for Organization for the League of Women Voters of MKE County, and as their rep to COLE, I am writing on behalf of the LWV of MC to ask you to support ARP funds that will protect Milwaukee’s children from lead hazards. These are: #10 (and part of #3) - the $26 million request for the MHD to aggressively respond to childhood lead poisoning at the level of 10 mcg/dl with home assessment and abatement; and #22- the $3 million request to create a lead abatement workforce drawn from communities most affected by lead and COVID.
For #10 (and part of #3), $21 million will go to contracted abatement and relocation efforts, including to the SDC and Revitalize Milwaukee who have a record of completing such work. Tyler Weber of the MHD has committed to monthly oversight of work progress by COLE with reports from MHD and the contracting agencies.
#22 will educate 850 workers over 24 months in lead abatement, providing good employment in impoverished areas.
I know you are inundated with requests, but hope you will please consider these for the well-being of MKE’s children. Thank you.
As a City of Milwaukee resident, I support proposals 1, 3, and 40 to invest in the City’s child care sector. Quality child care allows parents of young children to participate in workforce and is the best investment we can make in children’s readiness for school, work, and life. But the child care sector has been hit hard by the pandemic, with 200 programs closing their doors. Child care programs are struggling to recruit and retain staff which means that they can’t provide quality care and education to all families that need it. With American Rescue Plan funds, City of Milwaukee leaders have a historic opportunity to invest directly in the child care workforce, which will allow the parents of young children to participate in the workforce and ensure that Milwaukee’s children and families get the economic, academic, and social benefits of quality child care. Thank you for your leadership on behalf of Milwaukee's youngest children and their families.
Milwaukee Area Labor Council is writing to communicate our strong support to provide retroactive hazard pay for front-facing City workers who were left out of CARES Act Funding. Thank you to Alderpersons Coggs, Johnson, Spiker. The American Rescue Plan Act was specifically designed to correct some of the flaws that precluded certain public workers from being included in hazard pay through CARES Act funding, thereby signaling it is a legitimate use of the funding to treat equally all City workers who kept to their posts during the pandemic. We hope the matter is passed by this committee and that the entire Council will vote in favor of it. Additionally, the Labor Council would like to offer support for the following items that will provide training pathways and career opportunities for City residents.
• Green and Healthy Homes (GHHI) Proposal – a wholistic approach that combines energy efficiency retrofits with lead abatement projects
• Programming to expand the Urban Tree Canopy
• Net Zero Modular Homes factory at Century City
• The Clean Energy workforce development funding for Employ Milwaukee and complementary funding for Direct Connect
As a Milwaukee resident, I support using the City's ARPA allocation for a variety of programs and services, including many of those outlined by the Alders. I highly encourage support of efforts to prevent and address lead poisoning (including proposals like 10, 53, 54 and 57) as well as initiatives to promote safety and reduce violence in our communities (including proposals like 50 and 78).
In addition, I also support many of the concepts outlined to support housing affordability and stability (proposals such as 14-18, 32-34), employment and job training opportunities (22, 23), parent supports (56), initiatives to bolster the child care system (40), addressing broadband access (21) and food security (such as 25, 71), promoting healing spaces (29), piloting UBI (43), efforts to support those in mental health crisis and dealing with mental illness (such as 51, 55) as well as efforts to ensure that this historic investment of federal funds to our city is spent in a meaningful and equitable way by lifting up the voices of all Milwaukee residents (42).
We write in support of proposal 34 (sponsored by Ald. Johnson), the Milwaukee Rental Housing Resource Center (RHRC). We deeply appreciate the inclusion of the RHRC in the City’s ARPA proposal, which will help ensure its sustainability over time with operating support. The 9 co-partners of the RHRC not only connect residents to immediate, eviction intervention services but they also work strategically together to improve the rental housing system. In the last year, the RHRC has built a "Triage Team" of 5 staff, serving 3,500 people since launch in late 2020.
We also work proactively with the courts to review filings and ensure those at imminent risk of eviction are connected to resources. Additionally, we have worked with large landlords to use pre-filing approaches such as mediation and rent assistance. The work of the RHRC will be featured in an upcoming blog post for the National League of Cities. As the convening agency and RHRC administrator, along with our co-partners, we see first-hand the impact of this innovative collaboration to prevent eviction and increase housing stability in Milwaukee.
Sincerely,
Kristi Luzar (UEDA), Andi Elliot & Deb Heffner (Community Advocates)
Carolyn Dame, Manager, 4C Racine office
over 2 years ago
I am writing in support of proposals 1, 3, and 40 that invest in Milwaukee child care. We need high quality child care for parents of young children! It is a vital investment in children’s school readiness and their social and emotional development. Child care providers are still struggling, some more than ever between the delta variant and staffing issues that have burdened the field for for years. So many programs have closed their doors or reduced their capacity. Child care programs are struggling to recruit and retain staff which means that they can’t provide quality child care to all families that need it. American Rescue Plan funds will allow investment directly in the child care workforce, removing one of the barriers to parent's sustaining employment. I urge you to take action to support children and families by voting yes for proposals 1, 3 and 40.
As a Milwaukee resident, I support proposals 1, 3, and 40 to invest in the City’s child care sector. Quality child care allows parents of young children to participate in workforce and is the best investment we can make in children’s readiness for school, work, and life. But the child care sector has been hit hard by the pandemic, with 200 programs closing their doors. Child care programs are struggling to recruit and retain staff which means that they can’t provide quality care and education to all families that need it. With American Rescue Plan funds, City of Milwaukee leaders have a historic opportunity to invest directly in the child care workforce, which will allow the parents of young children to participate in the workforce and ensure that Milwaukee’s children and families get the economic, academic, and social benefits of quality child care.
As a Milwaukee resident, I support proposals 1, 3, and 40 to invest in the City’s child care sector. Quality child care allows parents of young children to participate in the workforce and is the best investment we can make in children’s readiness for school, work, and life. But the child care sector has been hit hard by the pandemic, with 200 programs closing their doors. Child care programs are struggling to recruit and retain staff which means that they can’t provide quality care and education to all families that need it. With American Rescue Plan funds, City of Milwaukee leaders have a historic opportunity to invest directly in the child care workforce, which will allow the parents of young children to participate in the workforce and ensure that Milwaukee’s children and families get the economic, academic, and social benefits of quality child care.
I write in support of several proposals. Funding of these proposals will help our City work toward improved social and environmental health outcomes: #8 ($100K for the Green Lot Pilot Program); #12 ($10mil to expand tree canopy and green infrastructure); #57 ($3mil for lead abatement). I am also in support of the following proposals aimed at traffic control and bike/pedestrian safety: #63 ($1mil for traffic calming special assessments); and #66 ($2.7mil for bicycle infrastructure). Finally, I am in support of the following proposal addressing climate equity: #74 ($5mil for energy efficiency in low-incoming neighborhoods). Thank you.
I support proposal #56, increase access to parenting education and support in the city of Milwaukee. Throughout the pandemic, families have experienced an increase in stress and trauma which has impacted their ability to cope. Triple P - Positive Parenting Program provides early, comprehensive support to parents; reduces childhood behavioral issues; and increases family stability.
Supporting parents and caregivers is essential to improving the well-being and resiliency of communities. Parents are kids’ first and life-long teachers and their influence is far-reaching. Equipping them with the confidence to problem-solve daily stressors drastically improves outcomes for entire families. This helps mitigate the escalation of stressful and challenging behaviors for both parent and child – behaviors that, if left unchecked, have the potential to lead to adverse experiences and more costly interventions. This, in turn, can help reduce city expenditures down the road for violence prevention and public safety.
As a Milwaukee resident, I support proposals 1, 3, and 40 to invest in the City’s child care sector. Quality child care allows parents of young children to participate in workforce and is the best investment we can make in children’s readiness for school, work, and life. But the child care sector has been hit hard by the pandemic, with 200 programs closing their doors. Child care programs are struggling to recruit and retain staff which means that they can’t provide quality care and education to all families that need it. With American Rescue Plan funds, City of Milwaukee leaders have a historic opportunity to invest directly in the child care workforce, which will allow the parents of young children to participate in the workforce and ensure that Milwaukee’s children and families get the economic, academic, and social benefits of quality child care.
As a Milwaukee county resident and an employee in Milwaukee, I support proposals 1, 3, and 40 to invest in the City’s child care sector. Quality child care allows parents of young children to participate in workforce and is the best investment we can make in children’s readiness for school, work, and life. But the child care sector has been hit hard by the pandemic, with 200 programs closing their doors. Child care programs are struggling to recruit and retain staff which means that they can’t provide quality care and education to all families that need it. With American Rescue Plan funds, City of Milwaukee leaders have a historic opportunity to invest directly in the child care workforce, which will allow the parents of young children to participate in the workforce and ensure that Milwaukee’s children and families get the economic, academic, and social benefits of quality child care.
On behalf of Andi Elliott, CEO of Community Advocates, I am writing to encourage you to vote for the ARP request filed by Alderman Perez and co-sponsored by Alderman Kovac seeking $26 million from the first tranche to lower the actionable level for lead poisoned children to 10 μg/dL. These funds will be used to provide essential services for 490 lead poisoned children and abatement of 890 housing units by 43 lead abatement crews recruited and trained from impacted neighborhoods. This lead abatement intervention, envisioned together by the Coalition On Lead Emergency (COLE) and MHD, will be a highly collaborative and cross-sector effort. involving a number of excellent organizations.
I also hope you will vote for the ARP request jointly submitted by Employ Milwaukee, Inc., and COLE seeking $3 million to serve 450 individuals over 24 months through a lead abatement workforce training initiative.
I know that you will be facing hard choices on October 15 so I am especially appreciative of your consideration of these requests from COLE in collaboration with MHD and Employ Milwaukee.
As a Milwaukee resident, I support proposals 1, 3, and 40 to invest in the City’s child care sector. Quality child care allows parents of young children to participate in workforce and is the best investment we can make in children’s readiness for school, work, and life. But the child care sector has been hit hard by the pandemic, with 200 programs closing their doors. Child care programs are struggling to recruit and retain staff which means that they can’t provide quality care and education to all families that need it. With American Rescue Plan funds, City of Milwaukee leaders have a historic opportunity to invest directly in the child care workforce, which will allow the parents of young children to participate in the workforce and ensure that Milwaukee’s children and families get the economic, academic, and social benefits of quality child care.
As a Milwaukee resident, I support proposals 1, 3, and 40 to invest in the City’s child care sector. Quality child care allows parents of young children to participate in workforce and is the best investment we can make in children’s readiness for school, work, and life. But the child care sector has been hit hard by the pandemic, with 200 programs closing their doors. Child care programs are struggling to recruit and retain staff which means that they can’t provide quality care and education to all families that need it. With American Rescue Plan funds, City of Milwaukee leaders have a historic opportunity to invest directly in the child care workforce, which will allow the parents of young children to participate in the workforce and ensure that Milwaukee’s children and families get the economic, academic, and social benefits of quality child care.
I write in support of ARPA proposal #56 (Johnson), which would help continue the evidence-based service to Milwaukee families known as Positive Parenting Program (Triple P). During this COVID-19 Pandemic, it is more important than ever to provide accessible, services to the children and families of our Milwaukee community.
Triple P's curriculum is designed to equip children with all of these skills by providing parents with simple and practical strategies to help build strong, healthy relationships, and confidently manage their children’s behavior. In doing so parents build protective factors that, when made available to an entire community, make it less likely that that community will experience violence.
Triple P offers an virtual option, Triple P Online, that would be accessible 24/7 to parents and caregivers to learn and practice new parenting skills at their own pace. This web-based version of the program reaches families unable to access in-person services due to the pandemic. Triple P Online has comparable outcomes to face-to-face delivery but is designed for parents to progress through the sessions in their own time on their home computer, smartphone, or tablet.
I support Proposal #31 and the construction of the indoor soccer complex. With the addition of the Burnham park futsal courts I have been able to see a huge number of youth and adults recreationally playing throughout the summer. An indoor soccer complex is ideal for the Milwaukee soccer community to have a place accessible during the winter. Working with youth has shown that if they have a safe place to have recreation they will be less likely to be doing criminal activities. Jobs for youth and teens can also be considered since there will an economic growth with the addition of a high quality soccer complex. Lastly, soccer development amongst youth and teens can be an outlet and a promotion for healthy living.
I support Proposal #31 and the construction of the indoor soccer complex. With the addition of the Burnham park futsal courts I have been able to see a huge number of youth and adults recreationally playing throughout the summer. An indoor soccer complex is ideal for the Milwaukee soccer community to have a place accessible during the winter. Working with youth has shown that if they have a safe place to have recreation they will be less likely to be doing criminal activities. Jobs for youth and teens can also be considered since there will an economic growth with the addition of a high quality soccer complex. Lastly, soccer development amongst youth and teens can be an outlet and a promotion for healthy living.
I am in support of the Office of Violence Prevention being awarded the full amount of ARPA funds they have requested.
The Government Historically has fully funded every war we are involved in. Our city is in its greatest war to date. We need the funds invested to represent the expected outcome. Prevention works and the city needs to follow the Governor’s lead by heavily investing in it.
As CEO for Triple P America I write in support of ARPA proposal #56 (Johnson) which would expand access in Milwaukee to the evidence-based parenting program, Triple P. When scaled in communities Triple P has demonstrated decreased rates of maltreatment for children; lower stress for parents; and improved self-regulation which connects to impulse control and problem-solving—both critical skills in reducing violence. Furthermore, by including the Triple P Online course, this proposal would remove common barriers for parents to have access to evidence-based parenting support including service eligibility, transportation, and childcare, and assure parents in the Milwaukee neighborhoods most impacted by the pandemic have equitable access to effective support.
As a Milwaukee resident, as VP for Organization for the League of Women Voters of MKE County, and as their rep to COLE, I am writing on behalf of the LWV of MC to ask you to support ARP funds that will protect Milwaukee’s children from lead hazards. These are: #10 (and part of #3) - the $26 million request for the MHD to aggressively respond to childhood lead poisoning at the level of 10 mcg/dl with home assessment and abatement; and #22- the $3 million request to create a lead abatement workforce drawn from communities most affected by lead and COVID.
For #10 (and part of #3), $21 million will go to contracted abatement and relocation efforts, including to the SDC and Revitalize Milwaukee who have a record of completing such work. Tyler Weber of the MHD has committed to monthly oversight of work progress by COLE with reports from MHD and the contracting agencies.
#22 will educate 850 workers over 24 months in lead abatement, providing good employment in impoverished areas.
I know you are inundated with requests, but hope you will please consider these for the well-being of MKE’s children. Thank you.
As a City of Milwaukee resident, I support proposals 1, 3, and 40 to invest in the City’s child care sector. Quality child care allows parents of young children to participate in workforce and is the best investment we can make in children’s readiness for school, work, and life. But the child care sector has been hit hard by the pandemic, with 200 programs closing their doors. Child care programs are struggling to recruit and retain staff which means that they can’t provide quality care and education to all families that need it. With American Rescue Plan funds, City of Milwaukee leaders have a historic opportunity to invest directly in the child care workforce, which will allow the parents of young children to participate in the workforce and ensure that Milwaukee’s children and families get the economic, academic, and social benefits of quality child care. Thank you for your leadership on behalf of Milwaukee's youngest children and their families.
Milwaukee Area Labor Council is writing to communicate our strong support to provide retroactive hazard pay for front-facing City workers who were left out of CARES Act Funding. Thank you to Alderpersons Coggs, Johnson, Spiker. The American Rescue Plan Act was specifically designed to correct some of the flaws that precluded certain public workers from being included in hazard pay through CARES Act funding, thereby signaling it is a legitimate use of the funding to treat equally all City workers who kept to their posts during the pandemic. We hope the matter is passed by this committee and that the entire Council will vote in favor of it. Additionally, the Labor Council would like to offer support for the following items that will provide training pathways and career opportunities for City residents.
• Green and Healthy Homes (GHHI) Proposal – a wholistic approach that combines energy efficiency retrofits with lead abatement projects
• Programming to expand the Urban Tree Canopy
• Net Zero Modular Homes factory at Century City
• The Clean Energy workforce development funding for Employ Milwaukee and complementary funding for Direct Connect
As a Milwaukee resident, I support using the City's ARPA allocation for a variety of programs and services, including many of those outlined by the Alders. I highly encourage support of efforts to prevent and address lead poisoning (including proposals like 10, 53, 54 and 57) as well as initiatives to promote safety and reduce violence in our communities (including proposals like 50 and 78).
In addition, I also support many of the concepts outlined to support housing affordability and stability (proposals such as 14-18, 32-34), employment and job training opportunities (22, 23), parent supports (56), initiatives to bolster the child care system (40), addressing broadband access (21) and food security (such as 25, 71), promoting healing spaces (29), piloting UBI (43), efforts to support those in mental health crisis and dealing with mental illness (such as 51, 55) as well as efforts to ensure that this historic investment of federal funds to our city is spent in a meaningful and equitable way by lifting up the voices of all Milwaukee residents (42).
We write in support of proposal 34 (sponsored by Ald. Johnson), the Milwaukee Rental Housing Resource Center (RHRC). We deeply appreciate the inclusion of the RHRC in the City’s ARPA proposal, which will help ensure its sustainability over time with operating support. The 9 co-partners of the RHRC not only connect residents to immediate, eviction intervention services but they also work strategically together to improve the rental housing system. In the last year, the RHRC has built a "Triage Team" of 5 staff, serving 3,500 people since launch in late 2020.
We also work proactively with the courts to review filings and ensure those at imminent risk of eviction are connected to resources. Additionally, we have worked with large landlords to use pre-filing approaches such as mediation and rent assistance. The work of the RHRC will be featured in an upcoming blog post for the National League of Cities. As the convening agency and RHRC administrator, along with our co-partners, we see first-hand the impact of this innovative collaboration to prevent eviction and increase housing stability in Milwaukee.
Sincerely,
Kristi Luzar (UEDA), Andi Elliot & Deb Heffner (Community Advocates)
I am writing in support of proposals 1, 3, and 40 that invest in Milwaukee child care. We need high quality child care for parents of young children! It is a vital investment in children’s school readiness and their social and emotional development. Child care providers are still struggling, some more than ever between the delta variant and staffing issues that have burdened the field for for years. So many programs have closed their doors or reduced their capacity. Child care programs are struggling to recruit and retain staff which means that they can’t provide quality child care to all families that need it. American Rescue Plan funds will allow investment directly in the child care workforce, removing one of the barriers to parent's sustaining employment. I urge you to take action to support children and families by voting yes for proposals 1, 3 and 40.
As a Milwaukee resident, I support proposals 1, 3, and 40 to invest in the City’s child care sector. Quality child care allows parents of young children to participate in workforce and is the best investment we can make in children’s readiness for school, work, and life. But the child care sector has been hit hard by the pandemic, with 200 programs closing their doors. Child care programs are struggling to recruit and retain staff which means that they can’t provide quality care and education to all families that need it. With American Rescue Plan funds, City of Milwaukee leaders have a historic opportunity to invest directly in the child care workforce, which will allow the parents of young children to participate in the workforce and ensure that Milwaukee’s children and families get the economic, academic, and social benefits of quality child care.
As a Milwaukee resident, I support proposals 1, 3, and 40 to invest in the City’s child care sector. Quality child care allows parents of young children to participate in the workforce and is the best investment we can make in children’s readiness for school, work, and life. But the child care sector has been hit hard by the pandemic, with 200 programs closing their doors. Child care programs are struggling to recruit and retain staff which means that they can’t provide quality care and education to all families that need it. With American Rescue Plan funds, City of Milwaukee leaders have a historic opportunity to invest directly in the child care workforce, which will allow the parents of young children to participate in the workforce and ensure that Milwaukee’s children and families get the economic, academic, and social benefits of quality child care.
I write in support of several proposals. Funding of these proposals will help our City work toward improved social and environmental health outcomes: #8 ($100K for the Green Lot Pilot Program); #12 ($10mil to expand tree canopy and green infrastructure); #57 ($3mil for lead abatement). I am also in support of the following proposals aimed at traffic control and bike/pedestrian safety: #63 ($1mil for traffic calming special assessments); and #66 ($2.7mil for bicycle infrastructure). Finally, I am in support of the following proposal addressing climate equity: #74 ($5mil for energy efficiency in low-incoming neighborhoods). Thank you.
I support proposal #56, increase access to parenting education and support in the city of Milwaukee. Throughout the pandemic, families have experienced an increase in stress and trauma which has impacted their ability to cope. Triple P - Positive Parenting Program provides early, comprehensive support to parents; reduces childhood behavioral issues; and increases family stability.
Supporting parents and caregivers is essential to improving the well-being and resiliency of communities. Parents are kids’ first and life-long teachers and their influence is far-reaching. Equipping them with the confidence to problem-solve daily stressors drastically improves outcomes for entire families. This helps mitigate the escalation of stressful and challenging behaviors for both parent and child – behaviors that, if left unchecked, have the potential to lead to adverse experiences and more costly interventions. This, in turn, can help reduce city expenditures down the road for violence prevention and public safety.
As a Milwaukee resident, I support proposals 1, 3, and 40 to invest in the City’s child care sector. Quality child care allows parents of young children to participate in workforce and is the best investment we can make in children’s readiness for school, work, and life. But the child care sector has been hit hard by the pandemic, with 200 programs closing their doors. Child care programs are struggling to recruit and retain staff which means that they can’t provide quality care and education to all families that need it. With American Rescue Plan funds, City of Milwaukee leaders have a historic opportunity to invest directly in the child care workforce, which will allow the parents of young children to participate in the workforce and ensure that Milwaukee’s children and families get the economic, academic, and social benefits of quality child care.
As a Milwaukee county resident and an employee in Milwaukee, I support proposals 1, 3, and 40 to invest in the City’s child care sector. Quality child care allows parents of young children to participate in workforce and is the best investment we can make in children’s readiness for school, work, and life. But the child care sector has been hit hard by the pandemic, with 200 programs closing their doors. Child care programs are struggling to recruit and retain staff which means that they can’t provide quality care and education to all families that need it. With American Rescue Plan funds, City of Milwaukee leaders have a historic opportunity to invest directly in the child care workforce, which will allow the parents of young children to participate in the workforce and ensure that Milwaukee’s children and families get the economic, academic, and social benefits of quality child care.
On behalf of Andi Elliott, CEO of Community Advocates, I am writing to encourage you to vote for the ARP request filed by Alderman Perez and co-sponsored by Alderman Kovac seeking $26 million from the first tranche to lower the actionable level for lead poisoned children to 10 μg/dL. These funds will be used to provide essential services for 490 lead poisoned children and abatement of 890 housing units by 43 lead abatement crews recruited and trained from impacted neighborhoods. This lead abatement intervention, envisioned together by the Coalition On Lead Emergency (COLE) and MHD, will be a highly collaborative and cross-sector effort. involving a number of excellent organizations.
I also hope you will vote for the ARP request jointly submitted by Employ Milwaukee, Inc., and COLE seeking $3 million to serve 450 individuals over 24 months through a lead abatement workforce training initiative.
I know that you will be facing hard choices on October 15 so I am especially appreciative of your consideration of these requests from COLE in collaboration with MHD and Employ Milwaukee.
As a Milwaukee resident, I support proposals 1, 3, and 40 to invest in the City’s child care sector. Quality child care allows parents of young children to participate in workforce and is the best investment we can make in children’s readiness for school, work, and life. But the child care sector has been hit hard by the pandemic, with 200 programs closing their doors. Child care programs are struggling to recruit and retain staff which means that they can’t provide quality care and education to all families that need it. With American Rescue Plan funds, City of Milwaukee leaders have a historic opportunity to invest directly in the child care workforce, which will allow the parents of young children to participate in the workforce and ensure that Milwaukee’s children and families get the economic, academic, and social benefits of quality child care.
Thank you!
As a Milwaukee resident, I support proposals 1, 3, and 40 to invest in the City’s child care sector. Quality child care allows parents of young children to participate in workforce and is the best investment we can make in children’s readiness for school, work, and life. But the child care sector has been hit hard by the pandemic, with 200 programs closing their doors. Child care programs are struggling to recruit and retain staff which means that they can’t provide quality care and education to all families that need it. With American Rescue Plan funds, City of Milwaukee leaders have a historic opportunity to invest directly in the child care workforce, which will allow the parents of young children to participate in the workforce and ensure that Milwaukee’s children and families get the economic, academic, and social benefits of quality child care.
I write in support of ARPA proposal #56 (Johnson), which would help continue the evidence-based service to Milwaukee families known as Positive Parenting Program (Triple P). During this COVID-19 Pandemic, it is more important than ever to provide accessible, services to the children and families of our Milwaukee community.
Triple P's curriculum is designed to equip children with all of these skills by providing parents with simple and practical strategies to help build strong, healthy relationships, and confidently manage their children’s behavior. In doing so parents build protective factors that, when made available to an entire community, make it less likely that that community will experience violence.
Triple P offers an virtual option, Triple P Online, that would be accessible 24/7 to parents and caregivers to learn and practice new parenting skills at their own pace. This web-based version of the program reaches families unable to access in-person services due to the pandemic. Triple P Online has comparable outcomes to face-to-face delivery but is designed for parents to progress through the sessions in their own time on their home computer, smartphone, or tablet.
I support Proposal #31 and the construction of the indoor soccer complex. With the addition of the Burnham park futsal courts I have been able to see a huge number of youth and adults recreationally playing throughout the summer. An indoor soccer complex is ideal for the Milwaukee soccer community to have a place accessible during the winter. Working with youth has shown that if they have a safe place to have recreation they will be less likely to be doing criminal activities. Jobs for youth and teens can also be considered since there will an economic growth with the addition of a high quality soccer complex. Lastly, soccer development amongst youth and teens can be an outlet and a promotion for healthy living.
I support Proposal #31 and the construction of the indoor soccer complex. With the addition of the Burnham park futsal courts I have been able to see a huge number of youth and adults recreationally playing throughout the summer. An indoor soccer complex is ideal for the Milwaukee soccer community to have a place accessible during the winter. Working with youth has shown that if they have a safe place to have recreation they will be less likely to be doing criminal activities. Jobs for youth and teens can also be considered since there will an economic growth with the addition of a high quality soccer complex. Lastly, soccer development amongst youth and teens can be an outlet and a promotion for healthy living.