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To our supporters:
TESSA and the Myron Stratton Consortium needs your help! (please share this information, within your own spheres of influence, as you deem appropriate)
As you may know, TESSA is partnering with the Myron Stratton Home, Partners in Housing, Peak Vista, and Early Connections Learning Centers (formerly the Child Nursery Centers) to open a childcare center on the Myron Stratton Campus. The Center will open in August 2010, and will serve 36 low-income children. TESSA will refer our families to this center for childcare, and priority admission will be given to children who have been homeless and/or victims of domestic abuse.
Head Start funds are critical to the on-going operations of this center. Particularly, the Early Connections Learning Center relies on 20 Head Start slots funded under the Recovery Act. President Obama has continued these "expansion" funds in his FY10/11 budget, but if these funds are cut from the budget, or if approval of the budget is delayed and a Continuing Resolution is issued, these Head Start funds may be lost.
We are urging our supporters to contact their U.S. Senators and Representative and ask them to support expanded Head Start funding for fiscal year 10/11. A flyer outlining the issue is attached. You can use it as a talking point list for a phone call, an outline for your own e-mail, or as a brief to send verbatim via e-mail or fax.
Contact information for our local Senators and Representative is listed below. Congress has just resumed their Summer session this week, so now is the perfect time to take action!
Please help Colorado Springs keep these much needed Head Start funds - the families in our program desperately need affordable, reliable childcare to prepare children for school and help parents pursue self-sufficiency. Help our families by contacting your legislators today!
Sincerely,
Connie
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