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Public Policy Agenda

TENNESSEE AFTERSHOOL NETWORK
2022 PUBLIC POLICY AGENDA

Remember to join us virtually on Wednesday, March 2, for TAN’s Day on the Hill. Watch for more to come on TAN’s remote Hill Day Training session at 1 p.m. Central on February 22.

Tier 1 (Top priorities)

State Priorities

Education Goals

  • Afterschool and summer learning and childcare access and quality, including use of available funding sources and credit recovery
  • Increase pre-K funding, access and quality, including addressing in the education funding formula
  • Increase health, psychosocial, and mental health services in schools and out-of-school-time programming
  • Provide trauma-informed and sensitive environments in school and afterschool/OST programs
  • Support funding for TN CAPS and Learning Blade
  • Handle with Care (confidential data, not public record)
  • New education funding formula, including supportive services like behavioral health, social workers and nurses

Financial Stability Goals

  • UWTN ALICE Spotlight on Children report components and findings
  • TANF/Families First/Surplus (childcare assistance, summer, afterschool)                                                    

Health Goals

  • Preservation and expansion of ACES resources
  • Prevention and treatment of substance abuse, suicide prevention, domestic violence, and access to behavioral health services

General Goals

  • Increase access to internet and broadband

Federal Priorities

Education Goals

  • Afterschool and summer learning and childcare (access and quality)

Financial Stability Goals

  • SNAP

Health Goals

  • Preservation and expansion of access to healthcare coverage
  • Prevention and treatment of substance abuse, suicide prevention, domestic violence, and access to behavioral health services

General Goals

  • COVID relief
  • Tax protections for charitable giving
  • Increase access to internet, including expansion of E-rate

Tier Two Priorities

Monitoring, building groundwork for action, and/or signing-on as issues arise, but not taking a leadership role

State Priorities

Education

  • Access to food in out-of-school-time programming
  • Funding for communities in schools

Financial Stability

  • SNAP

Health

  • Health and social service infrastructure*
  • Coordinated School Health
  • Vaping/tobacco products (reducing access for youth)

Federal Priorities

Education

  • Early Learning
  • Funding for Communities in Schools

Financial Stability

  • Workforce development/WIOA

Health

  • Health and social service infrastructure*

*Mental health services, substance abuse prevention and treatment, senior services, intellectual disabilities, transportation for health and human services, long-term care, and social workers in schools and other settings.

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