Improving Child Care Compensation Backgrounder 2021
The Improving Child Care Compensation Backgrounder 2021 provides tactical information to help leaders better understand the policy levers available to support early educator compensation, which is so critical right now when we can finally address this critical problem. In this update, we’ve included examples of states and counties implementing in different ways the eight strategies covered in the backgrounder, which are: compensation scales and standards, wage stipends and bonus payments, individual tax credits for child care educators, ARPA child care stabilization subgrants, child care assistance, benefits, apprenticeships, and pre-K parity for child care.
Access the recording and slide deck from the December 2021 webinar, Child Care Compensation Counts: 8 Strategies.
The Improving Child Care Compensation Video Series provides interviews with leaders whose work is covered in the Improving Child Care Compensation Backgrounder 2021.
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Taking the Long View on Compensation in Delaware
Blog March 30, 2023
In this blog, Madeleine Bayard, Senior Vice President at Rodel, details steps Delaware is taking to retain and recruit early child care workforce.
The Importance of Home-Based Educator Wellness in Equitable Early Childhood Systems
Video March 29, 2023
This recording is from the March 21, 2023 HBCC Webinar
Home-Based Child Care: Family, Friend, and Neighbor (FFN) Policies and Supports Across the Nation
Slide Deck March 2, 2023
During this webinar, presenters discussed findings from the soon-to-be-released brief, State Scan of Family, Friend, and Neighbor (FFN) Policies and Supports.