During the 2023-25 state budget process, Wisconsin legislators received more than 99,500 letters from advocates across the state in support of funding to continue the Child Care Counts Program. That included approximately 76,000 letters in the final two weeks of Raising Wisconsin’s advocacy push alone as advocates worked to tell the Legislature’s Joint Committee on Finance and other key legislative leaders the funding is essential to support child care providers, programs, families, employers, and communities across the state. 

Raising Wisconsin partnered to host record-setting and successful Advocacy Days focused on child care and child health and well-being. Advocates met with a majority of Wisconsin’s elected officials to call for significant investment in our state budget requests and priorities. Parents from across the state also elevated the importance of child care through personal video testimonials during a full-day social media campaign on the national Day Without Child Care. 

We collected signatures for a letter that is now being distributed to Wisconsin’s elected officials and policymakers on the business and economic case for a state investment into child care in the state’s 2023-35 budget. Review the letter and see who’s added their name and organization at the page below.