
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SUNDAY, April 14, 1991                   TAG: 9104140241
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: D9   EDITION: STATE 
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DATELINE: BIG STONE GAP                                LENGTH: Short

BOUCHER SPONSORS CHILD-CARE CONFERENCE

A one-day conference for child-care providers is being set up by Rep. Rick Boucher, D-Abingdon, and local government officials and educators Friday at Mountain Empire Community College.

It will start at 9:30 a.m. in Dalton-Cantrell Hall. Boucher said it will focus on new federal grant programs for child-care services and showcase a variety of programs recently established in Southwest Virginia.

"Comprehensive child-care legislation was enacted during the 101st Congress, which created a new block-grant program and increased grants to the states for at-risk child-care services," Boucher said. "This year, Virginia will receive $13.3 million in federal block-grant funding for activities which defray the cost of day care for low-income families and increase the availability of early childhood development programs and after-school services for children."

Conference speakers will cover such topics as federal child-care block grants, tax incentives, quality day care, models of day-care programs in Virginia and resident child-care initiatives in public housing.

Further information and reservations are available from Donna Graham in Boucher's Abingdon office at 628-1145.

- Southwest bureau

by CNB