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We're seeing a trend of investor-backed companies taking over child care centers, often to the detriment of educators, providers and families. Our latest blog covers how MA is leading the charge to ensure public child care dollars are used appropriately: https://lnkd.in/eW3ggbcg
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Take the Anchorage Child Care Survey - your input is needed on how to create a thriving child care system for Anchorage. Share your thoughts on how child care access and costs impact your family, job and Anchorage’s businesses in this short survey. https://lnkd.in/gZP8qiqu
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Cost is one barrier that keeps families and caregivers from accessing high-quality child care. Join the conversations we are having about child care and early learning in Central Minnesota and together we will move towards solutions. Learn more: https://hubs.la/Q02h4k160
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Help shape the future of child care in our state! Minnesota's quality rating system for early child care is undertaking a redesign of its programs and resources. All parents, educators and community allies are encouraged to complete a brief survey on proposed improvements to Parent Aware. Complete the survey by March 31: https://lnkd.in/gnwvWpXh #80x3
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Media attention towards child care issues in the United States rose significantly during the COVID pandemic, bringing renewed focus to the flaws in our system. To continue this heightened awareness, the Better Life Lab initiated a grant program, providing support to journalists tasked with unraveling the narrative of child care and its pivotal role in our economy, communities, businesses, and families. Their report synthesizes key findings from the resulting series of articles, videos, and illustrations, including… ➡ Federal funding is crucial for high-quality, child care infrastructure, but workplaces, states, and localities are also stepping in to address needs, reflecting a collective effort to find solutions. ➡ Adequate compensation, training, and support for educators in child care lead to longer tenure and reduced burnout, helping to stabilize the workforce and enhance the quality of care. ➡ To raise public support for child care, it's crucial to understand the broad consequences of a broken system on different populations and reconsider how child care is portrayed in the media for increased awareness and understanding. The Better Life Lab played a crucial role in ensuring that the child care crisis, the fact that care is vital infrastructure, and the need for solutions remained at the forefront of the national conversation by supporting independent writers and content creators. At Children's Institute, we appreciate the opportunity to share insights into the child care system from an Oregon perspective through our advocacy and communications efforts. Looking ahead to 2024, we are dedicated to advancing our efforts and further amplifying the stories surrounding the child care system 📝 If you’re a storyteller or journalist writing about early childhood, we would love to connect. Credit: Better Life Lab and New America https://lnkd.in/giYTVqhS
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The LATEST issue of the Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care highlights the experiences, challenges, and opportunities of those working in residential child care. Read it online now: https://ow.ly/8rZ950QalK0 #SJRCC
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To make child care STRONG 💪, we need to make options like #familychildcare accessible to more families. See what the findings from our new Child Care Aware of America report mean for you: https://hubs.li/Q02v4hkh0
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Early Childhood Special Education @ Livonia Public Schools and Private Child Care center owner | Curriculum Development | Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging Team Member LPS
The battle has been long and dates back to World War II and the Lanham Act when we had the only nationally funded childcare program in history. That was when they needed women in the workforce. Women have the right to full social participation and that only comes with quality accessible childcare. Accessible childcare will undoubtedly have a positive impact on relieving stress for families and the birth rates. There has been a steady decline as women now look at child care when family planning. Investment in America means investing in women and families and children. The benefits are far reaching.
Here's some Friday fun for you-- check out this five-minute video that played at the 1997 White House Conference on Child Care (come for the child care, stay for the late '90s fashion and production value). What's fascinating to me is that over 25 years ago, the exact same arguments were being marshalled as we use today: good child care is needed for working parents, for business bottom lines, for healthy child development. I sometimes hear people say that we need to press the economic case for child care, but it's difficult for me to watch this and think we haven't been doing just that for a long, long time. It's clear to me that while all of these cases are valid, something has to change: we're going to need to broaden the strategy, broaden the messages, broaden the constituency.
User Clip: 1997 WH Child Care Summit Video
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Families with young children are struggling to afford child care. A new report from Care.com shows just how tough it is. THIS is why it's so important for Congress to prioritize the funding and policies that make child care more affordable and accessible for families who need it. https://lnkd.in/ednRnd47
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I wonder if the marketplace, which seems to only value innovation, disruption (w/e tf that means) and novelty, has a hard time understanding that there are (presumably) huge opportunities to open childcare centers that pay a living wage and practice the evidence-based methods that already exist. No need for innovation b/c we know what works and how to do it. Boring (not novel) but effectively. Hard to get funding for boring but effective.
Without support, child care centers will struggle to stay open, leaving parents unable to secure affordable, quality child care that allows them to go to work. Without support, child care centers will struggle to hire the early childhood educators they need to care for our youngest constituents. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ And yet, Congress has still not taken the action needed to end the nation's child care crisis. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Join us at https://bit.ly/2M9eJpH to see how you can advocate on behalf of babies, toddlers and their families. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Read the article by The Washington Post: https://wapo.st/3UrSMI2
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