Ascension Parish, Louisiana Other Productions, 7 Oct 2022

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From YouTube: Early Childhood Development Center Event - October 7, 2022

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Early Childhood Development Center Event - October 7, 2022
Ascension Parish Government
Produced by Ascension 21
Government Access

A

Time, I'd like to uh welcome you to the fair city of Donaldsonville, where the sun is always shining and I'm just so happy and proud of the the group that is here today in order to just show that uh we need to do everything we can in order to uh educate our young minds so that they can be great adults when they grow up. You.

B

Know the bottom line is: is this is being funded from a one mill property tax that was passed in 2013., uh just kind of give you a little history? The tax generates about 1.5 million a year. uh It seems like to me if we're just building prisons, all we're doing is building capacity uh and nobody's focuses on shrinking that pipeline to prison, and that's that's really what this is about, and the future of Don civil is prosperous as its past.

B

There's a lot of things coming down the pipe way bigger than early childhood education and- and it's really exciting to be at the Forefront of that it.

C

Just doesn't seem like it was that long ago, because today it's about our children, we purchased the old west, Ascension Elementary School and built a park and an Outreach Center for our children and we staffed it with our deputies and all that support leads us to where we are today.

D

But we're clearly moving in the right direction. A strong investment in early childhood education is not the end-all be-all. It is an investment in people and communities designed to eliminate disparities. Close the achievement, Gap reduce crime and, in turn, improve the quality of life for the entire community, cradle.

E

To Career, that's that's what this is all about. We invest here. We don't have to invest in detention space later, because you know that old, saying. If you build it, they will come. You build this. The kids will come so I. Thank you for your vision here and the partnership that we have, because we don't have people at the local level who Embrace that and who are doing things like this in Donaldsonville. It's all for naught. We know that children who have high quality Early Education are more likely to have greater success.

E

That's why I really like this Cradle to Career a theme that you all have here. We know that they're going to live longer, they're going to have a higher quality of life, they're going to earn more money, they can support themselves and their families, and that is how you transform communities and states.