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Join us online tomorrow to discuss our latest report: Invisible Labor, Visible Needs: Making Family Policy Work for Stay-At-Home (And All) Parents. Report co-authors Ivana Greco and Elliot Haspel will be joined by Raena Boston from the Chamber of Mothers, Oriandi Mellas from the Partnership for Community Action, and Haley Baumeister, Homemaker and Writer, who will share their thoughts and reactions. 🗓 Friday October 25th 🕑 2 - 3 p.m. ET Read more and register: https://lnkd.in/etys8uXh

Join us tomorrow for a conversation about the future of care. Read more and register ➡ https://lnkd.in/ea-gkM4Q

Good family policy aims to empower and support social connections among and between families and their larger communities in ways that promote agency, resilience, and flourishing. Our latest report, Invisible Labor, Visible Needs: Making Family Policy Work for Stay-At-Home (And All) Parents, includes a set of recommendations recommendations for lawmakers which focus on allowing families to make decisions for themselves, and to form tight community bonds: ➡ Congress should commission studies and/or hold hearings on stay-at-home parents and their needs.  ➡ Governments at every level should work with communities to strengthen drop-in and part-time child care offerings.  ➡ Governments at every level should strengthen family, friend, and neighbor (FFN) caregivers.  ➡ Governments at all levels should be aware that a top priority for families with a stay-at-home parent is housing costs.  ➡ Congress and the states should continue to explore well-designed paid family leave laws.  ➡ As Congress and federal administrative agencies tackle health care reforms, they should ensure that the reforms benefit both families with parents working outside the home and those with a parent at home.  ➡ Congress should consider offering a home care stipend or other direct payments to stay-at-home parents, above and beyond the Child Tax Credit.  ➡ Congress should provide stay-at-home parents with caregiver credits toward Social Security.  ➡ Congress should make stay-at-home parents eligible for Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI). ➡ Congress should consider more fully incorporating stay-at-home parents into the tax code. 🔗 https://lnkd.in/dDggfX46

Join Capita and Demos Helsinki for a virtual roundtable about the future of care, where Abby Jitendra, from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF), Gala Díaz Langou, from CIPPEC, and Amar N. from the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) will join us to respond to the presentation and provide “sparks” for our group discussion. In this conversation, we will expand our understanding of the resources “beyond the budget sheet” — time, relationships, responsibilities, individual strengths, and collective tools and institutions. What is needed to care for one another and build a global, socially backed vision of care that is fit for purpose in the new landscape of human vulnerability? 🗓 October 23, 2024 🕥 10:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. ET/ 🕟 4.30 p.m. to 6 p.m. CET. Read more & register: https://lnkd.in/ea-gkM4Q

Who exactly are America’s stay-at-home parents, and what do they need from policymakers? Capita has set out to put a spotlight on this often-invisible group in a new report from Elliot Haspel & Ivana Greco. 🔗 https://lnkd.in/dDggfX46

Published today: Invisible Labor, Visible Needs: Making Family Policy Work for Stay-At-Home (And All) Parents In this new report, Elliot Haspel & Ivana Greco give a first-of-its-kind look at how family policy can better support stay-at-home parents (and help all parents along the way). Key messages: 1️⃣ Stay-at-home parents provide incredibly valuable services to their families, the U.S. economy, and the country at large. 2️⃣ To continue providing care to their families and communities, stay-at-home parents want and need government support. 3️⃣ Today’s stay-at-home parents are not who conventional wisdom says they are. 4️⃣ Supporting stay-at-home parents represents a rare opportunity for bipartisan cooperation. 🔗 https://lnkd.in/dDggfX46

Demos Helsinki has pushed my thinking forward on social imagination, strategic foresight, and transformative governance for years, and now we are partnering with them to explore the #caretransition. I hope you will join us next week.

“We are not plagued by a care crisis limited to the health and social services sector, but we as a society are in the midst of a care transition.” Join Capita and Demos Helsinki for a virtual roundtable about the future of care, where Abby Jitendra, from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF), and Gala Díaz Langou, from CIPPEC, will join us to respond to the presentation and provide “sparks” for our group discussion. Care is central to the human experience. Whether it's informal, unpaid support between loved ones or more formal caregiving roles, every act of care is personal, direct, and relational. The headlines tell us that care is in “crisis,” but this misses the deeper issue. Focusing solely on increasing resources for care services doesn't fully address how our need for care has evolved or how we can effectively meet that need. In this conversation, we will expand our understanding of the resources “beyond the budget sheet” — time, relationships, responsibilities, individual strengths, and collective tools and institutions. What is needed to care for one another and build a global, socially backed vision of care that is fit for purpose in the new landscape of human vulnerability? 🗓 October 23, 2024 🕥 10:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. ET/ 🕟 4.30 p.m. to 6 p.m. CET. Read more & register: https://lnkd.in/ea-gkM4Q

Parents in the Crossfire: Care in a Polarized Culture In her latest article Caroline Cassidy, Capita's Chief Strategy Officer, reflects on how so many dimensions of our lives are politicized and polarized. This is particularly true in the world of parenthood, where every decision is caught in the crossfire of ideological battles. So what can be done? Caroline argues that we must take a step back and reflect on how division manifests in our own lives, families, and perceptions. What if, instead of boxing parents into “good” or “bad,” we create spaces or build on existing ones—community or parent groups, workplaces, or schools—where caregivers could be heard without judgment? Read the article https://lnkd.in/e62cuAcq

“We are not plagued by a care crisis limited to the health and social services sector, but we as a society are in the midst of a care transition.” Join Capita and Demos Helsinki for a virtual roundtable about the future of care, where Abby Jitendra, from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF), and Gala Díaz Langou, from CIPPEC, will join us to respond to the presentation and provide “sparks” for our group discussion. Care is central to the human experience. Whether it's informal, unpaid support between loved ones or more formal caregiving roles, every act of care is personal, direct, and relational. The headlines tell us that care is in “crisis,” but this misses the deeper issue. Focusing solely on increasing resources for care services doesn't fully address how our need for care has evolved or how we can effectively meet that need. In this conversation, we will expand our understanding of the resources “beyond the budget sheet” — time, relationships, responsibilities, individual strengths, and collective tools and institutions. What is needed to care for one another and build a global, socially backed vision of care that is fit for purpose in the new landscape of human vulnerability? 🗓 October 23, 2024 🕥 10:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. ET/ 🕟 4.30 p.m. to 6 p.m. CET. Read more & register: https://lnkd.in/ea-gkM4Q