Every Lynchburg Child Deserves a Strong Start—and Every Parent Deserves a Real Childcare Option
A parent gets a job offer but has to turn it down because there is no affordable childcare available for her toddler. Her child loses an opportunity, her family loses income, and a Lynchburg employer loses a worker.
I’m Christina Delzingaro, and I’m running for Lynchburg City Council because I believe city government exists to serve people and solve problems, and right now, it isn’t. We need city leaders who will think differently, bring people together, and get to work. For more than three decades, I’ve done exactly that. When our city faced a healthcare access crisis, I brought together community members to create Community Access Network – a completely new approach to healthcare access that now serves thousands of people each year. I got to work. I listened. I learned from those who knew more. And then I delivered. Now it’s time to bring that approach to City Council.
Affordable childcare and early education are not just family issues. They are workforce and education issues, and solving them would benefit children, parents, employers, and our entire city.
Help parents work and employers keep workers.
Parents need safe, dependable, affordable care so they can go to work and stay at work.
Employers need workers who are not constantly scrambling because childcare fell through.
Expanding childcare capacity is one practical way to strengthen Lynchburg’s workforce.
Give children a stronger start in school.
High-quality early learning can help children enter kindergarten ready to learn.
Attendance habits begin early. Children who are frequently absent in pre-K are more likely to struggle with attendance later and can enter kindergarten behind their classmates.
Kids cannot learn if they are not in school. Connecting families to consistent early education can help build those habits before kindergarten.
Explore more than one solution – including a public option.
Create incentives for more childcare slots and support partnerships with existing childcare providers.
Encourage employer-sponsored childcare and scholarships for families who need help.
Examine whether Lynchburg City Schools could provide public early childhood education from birth to age five as one option for families.
Understand the cost, available state and federal funding, staffing and facility needs, and how a public option could complement – not replace – existing providers.
If you believe every child deserves a strong start, I’d be proud to have your vote. As a member of City Council, I will get to work to make affordable childcare and early education a community priority.
