We won. The new notification system for our centers is officially happening. Thank you for making them listen.
May 9, 2019
Final supporters
We as child care center educators, directors, owners, parents and staff stand UNITED and unwavering in our call for the SAFETY of our children and ourselves. Child Care Providers of SEIU 925 are speaking in solidarity and have signed onto this petition to demand the creation of a channel for Law Enforcement to immediately alert nearby Child Care Centers of dangerous and hostile incidents in their area.
We are teachers, students, mothers, fathers, professionals, and community members taking proactive steps to ensure the safety and security of the children we have promised to protect. We sign in response to several incidents of having been left in the silence of Law Enforcement to learn of dangerous and threatening situations outside our doors second-hand through social media, and in other cases by looking outside our centers’ windows. This is a preventable and unnecessary risk that Elementary, Middle, and High Schools do not experience. Necessary procedures have been built to ensure that schools within a radius of threat will receive a notice so that they can safeguard the students they teach.
It is time for Child Care Centers to be afforded that same right and respect, too!
The creation and implementation of a channel for Law Enforcement to alert Child Care centers of nearby threats will allow us as caretakers to decide an appropriate course of action before the situation escalates. We see no alternative but to act now and create this channel.
The safety of the children we protect and the schools we’ve built are too important for Law Enforcement and DCYF Licensing not to prioritize.
Updates
April 20, 2019
The momentum is undeniable now. Officials can no longer ignore the urgency of this safety demand.
Reached 100 supporters
April 20, 2019
27 Comments
As an early childhood education, I do everything in my power to keep my students safe. I want to know that we have policies in place doing the same.
This needs to be fixed I not only work there but my kids go there. My family and all the other families that go there are my priority and I want and need to keep the safe.
Child care centers have to have a business license. Police should be notified of the business location and add them to the educational rosters for emergency notifications.
Yes, I am a home daycare provider. I get calls from my kids public school that they are lockdown. I am in the same area, I have children in my care. I should get the same call so I can plan to keep the children safe in my care. I agree with her and I am signing this petition.
Please include small in-home daycares as well...we belong to this community we should be included....the children in a small in-home daycares should have a safe environment like every school and big daycare/childcare centers...
Signing so childcare centers can be informed when there are emergencies.
Definitely need to be some changes. Our children are everything! Count me in.
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We won. The new notification system for our centers is officially happening. Thank you for making them listen.
May 9, 2019
Final supporters
We as child care center educators, directors, owners, parents and staff stand UNITED and unwavering in our call for the SAFETY of our children and ourselves. Child Care Providers of SEIU 925 are speaking in solidarity and have signed onto this petition to demand the creation of a channel for Law Enforcement to immediately alert nearby Child Care Centers of dangerous and hostile incidents in their area.
We are teachers, students, mothers, fathers, professionals, and community members taking proactive steps to ensure the safety and security of the children we have promised to protect. We sign in response to several incidents of having been left in the silence of Law Enforcement to learn of dangerous and threatening situations outside our doors second-hand through social media, and in other cases by looking outside our centers’ windows. This is a preventable and unnecessary risk that Elementary, Middle, and High Schools do not experience. Necessary procedures have been built to ensure that schools within a radius of threat will receive a notice so that they can safeguard the students they teach.
It is time for Child Care Centers to be afforded that same right and respect, too!
The creation and implementation of a channel for Law Enforcement to alert Child Care centers of nearby threats will allow us as caretakers to decide an appropriate course of action before the situation escalates. We see no alternative but to act now and create this channel.
The safety of the children we protect and the schools we’ve built are too important for Law Enforcement and DCYF Licensing not to prioritize.
Updates
April 20, 2019
The momentum is undeniable now. Officials can no longer ignore the urgency of this safety demand.
Reached 100 supporters
April 20, 2019
27 Comments
Due to the fatal shootings on Sand Point Way in Seattle, we recently had to lock down. Though we share the block with a Middle School and High School, we learned of the danger from a parent picking up earlier than usual. As professionals working with the youngest and most vulnerable learners in the state, we should have access to the same safety alert mechanisms that schools for elementary, middle, upper and higher education institutions have!
As an early childhood education, I do everything in my power to keep my students safe. I want to know that we have policies in place doing the same.
This needs to be fixed I not only work there but my kids go there. My family and all the other families that go there are my priority and I want and need to keep the safe.
Child care centers have to have a business license. Police should be notified of the business location and add them to the educational rosters for emergency notifications.
Yes, I am a home daycare provider. I get calls from my kids public school that they are lockdown. I am in the same area, I have children in my care. I should get the same call so I can plan to keep the children safe in my care. I agree with her and I am signing this petition.
Please include small in-home daycares as well...we belong to this community we should be included....the children in a small in-home daycares should have a safe environment like every school and big daycare/childcare centers...
Signing so childcare centers can be informed when there are emergencies.
Definitely need to be some changes. Our children are everything! Count me in.
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Due to the fatal shootings on Sand Point Way in Seattle, we recently had to lock down. Though we share the block with a Middle School and High School, we learned of the danger from a parent picking up earlier than usual. As professionals working with the youngest and most vulnerable learners in the state, we should have access to the same safety alert mechanisms that schools for elementary, middle, upper and higher education institutions have!