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A just-released study on fatalities in out-of-home child care conducted by the City University of New York Graduate Center, found that child care is quite safe overall but identified a need for training, pay, and oversight of child care, particularly in the more isolated in-home family child care setting.

Washington, DC - Hurricanes Katrina and Rita have directly affected over 6.5 million people, who live in or who have fled from, disaster areas designated by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), including nearly 1.5 million children age 14 and younger. Many of these families need food, shelter, clothing, and in numerous cases, trauma counseling to begin to heal and put their lives back together.

WASHINGTON, DC - Hurricane Katrina has directly affected nearly 6 million people who live in federally designated disaster areas, including more than 1.2 million children under the age of 14. These families need food, shelter, clothing, and in many cases trauma counseling to begin to heal and begin their lives again. Parents of the more than 1.2 million children, almost one-third of whom are under the age of 5, may also require child care so that they can put their lives back together (i.e.

Washington, DC – Yesterday on the Dr. Phil show, America saw examples of how devastating bad quality child care can be for some children and their parents.

"Many of these child care tragedies occur because of weak child care regulations and a lack of funding to support even basic licensing, inspections, and training programs," says Linda Smith, Executive Director of the National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies.

Leading Senators and Representatives Remind Congress to Remember the Children WASHINGTON, DC – March 6, 2003 – Today hundreds of children's advocates from communities across the United States attended a rally where members of Congress were urged to consider the #1 Question, "Is it good for the children?" before making decisions.