Sample Letter
We encourage you to read through our response to the final DCYF report and share your thoughts with your legislators and other elected officials. Here is a sample letter you could send after personalizing it based on your unique beliefs and situation.
Click the buttons to find contact info for legislators, then copy and paste their email addresses into the BCC area of your emails. We encourage you to personally reach out to your own legislator, too.
"Dear Senators [or “Dear Representatives” if you are sending to reps],
My name is _______ and I am a licensed family child care provider in _________. I have been a licensed provider for __ years. I am asking for you to oppose DCYF’s proposed changes to family child care licensing standards and, instead, work with family child care providers to modify family child care regulations in ways that will ensure children’s health and safety while preventing the catastrophic loss of Minnesota’s family child care providers.
[Share your personal story as a family child care provider. Share your concerns, suggestions, questions, etc. about the draft language. You can share ours, too. Mention at least some of the changes that concern you the most. How will this impact you? How will this impact your families? Will you still be able to provide child care?]
Again, I humbly ask for your support of Minnesota’s family child care providers, children, and families by opposing the language proposed by DCYF and working with family child care providers to make commonsense changes to that will protect children’s health and safety and the licensed family child care profession.
Thank you for your time. Please contact me if you have any questions.
Sincerely,
NAME
Licensed family child care provider
CITY
PHONE AND/OR E-MAIL