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RAPID storytelling lifts up parents' and child care providers’ voices and experiences.

4 years of RAPID

In 2024, RAPID entered its fourth year of lifting up parents’ and providers’ voices during an election year that had important implications for young children and their families. Since early on in the RAPID Survey Project, we have been asking parents and providers this open-ended question: What would you like your elected officials or other policymakers to know about how you and your family are doing and what you need during this time? We received almost 30,000 answers, and identified the topics that parents most frequently raise in their answers to this question. In this special report, we summarize the data and discuss what they mean.

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3 years of RAPID

RAPID launched in April 2020 to understand and address the experiences and challenges that caregivers of young children were facing during the Covid-19 pandemic. In 2023, we continued to field monthly national surveys and elevate the voices of adults in the lives of young children, to provide timely, actionable data to advocates, researchers, practitioners, and policymakers. In this special report, we summarize the data and discuss what they mean.

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