The pandemic aid program for childcare simply expired Sept. 30, which implies 3.2 million youngsters across the nation are anticipated to lose entry to care within the coming months and 70,000 childcare applications are prone to shut. How will this have an effect on Louisiana and what might be executed to fulfill this crucial want? Discover out on this week’s podcast with Libbie Sonnier, government director of the Louisiana Coverage Institute for Kids.
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Libbie Sonnier, Ph.D., has served as the manager director of the Louisiana Coverage Institute for Kids since 2019. Acknowledged for her tenacity and deep dedication to youngsters, Sonnier has led groups in system-wide initiatives for the betterment of youngsters, households, caregivers, and practitioners for greater than twenty years. Throughout her time on the Louisiana Coverage Institute, she has helped safe and direct greater than $1B for early care and schooling in Louisiana, together with the state’s largest new early studying investments in a decade and a 20-year millage that creates one of many nation’s largest devoted funds for toddler and toddler care in New Orleans. Since 2019, she additionally doubled the Louisiana Coverage Institute for Kids’s analysis and media engagement outputs, tripled its workers, doubled its annual revenues, and secured its first three seven-figure grants. She additionally helped conceive, launch, and co-chair the Steering Committee of Geaux Far Louisiana, a complete effort that engages dad and mom and early childhood well being and schooling suppliers in main the transformation of the state’s early childhood techniques to higher meet the wants of households. Sonnier is pushed to depart our neighborhood higher along with her elementary perception {that a} profitable Louisiana begins with profitable youngsters.