Laurie Rackas

Laurie Rackas is the Content Developer on CCAoA's Marketing & Communications team. She is a writer, editor and video producer who specializes in writing for and about children. For her work, she's been awarded six Emmys and a PBS Advertising & Promotion Award, among others.

Recent Posts

Provider Health Spotlight on Tatiyana Lipinka

By Laurie Rackas on March 20, 2017

Spotlight

Tatiyana Lipinka, Brooklyn Child Care Inc., Brooklyn, NY

Topics: Best Practices, Health & Safety

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CCAoA Celebrates American Heart and Black History Months

By Laurie Rackas on February 06, 2017

Heart disease and strokes are the #1 killers of women in the United States Roughly every minute, another woman dies, according to the American Heart Association (AHA). Although heart disease affects women of all races and ethnicities, rates are especially high for African-American women.

Here’s a little story to inspire you:

Topics: Health & Safety

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Participate in National Children’s Mental Health Awareness Day – Thursday, May 5!

By Laurie Rackas on May 04, 2016

Finding Help, Finding Hope. That’s the theme of this year’s National Children’s Mental Health Awareness Day. Awareness Day was created to help focus the nation’s attention on the importance of children’s positive mental health and the essential role it plays in overall healthy development.

Topics: Health & Safety

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