On Friday, March 14, Sen. Reed visited the Beautiful Beginnings Child Care Center in Providence to discuss his efforts at the federal level to improve child care quality, affordability and safety.
Reed was joined by child care advocates Elizabeth Burke Bryant, Executive Director of Rhode Island KIDS COUNT; Representative Grace Diaz, Chair of the Legislative Commission on Child Care; Sandra M. Powell, Director of the Rhode Island Department of Human Services; Janice E. DeFrances, Director of the state Department of Children, Youth and Families; and Khadija Lewis Khan, Executive Director of Beautiful Beginnings Child Care Center to highlight efforts to support working families and help Rhode Island make child care more affordable for parents and safer and more enriching for children.
For more information about Sen. Reed's child care initatives and this event, click here.