Grace Reef is the founder of the Early Learning Policy Group, LLC, a northern Virginia early childhood consultant firm. Grace worked in the U.S. Senate as a senior policy advisor to three Senators over 17 years (including five years as the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Subcommittee on Children Staff Director). As Chief of Policy and Evaluation at the National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies, NACCRRA, (now known as Child Care Aware of America), Grace worked across states to support child care access and affordability strategies. As a consultant for the past 10 years, Grace has worked at the federal, state, and local level to support access to affordable, quality child care, build early childhood systems, undertake early childhood landscape analyses, integrate siloed funding streams, and support innovative solutions to complicated challenges.
State allies can call on Grace Reef to:
Draft policy 1 pagers, briefs, fact sheets, public testimony, talking points, and infographics related to child care, tax credits, and economic impact/development
Brainstorm CCDBG policy, TANF policy (including unobligated funds), tax policy, economic impact & development strategies, and employer engagement
For example, child care supply & demand mapping in communities with working parents; neighborhoods where Spanish is spoken at home; poverty neighborhoods, etc., Tableau visualizations with Census Bureau or administrative data, child care affordability calculators, etc.
Help draft related support materials for tax strategies such as 1 pagers and talking points.
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