Building Capacity From Within: The Impact of LEAP on Activating the Early Childhood Workforce
This session was presented during the BUILD 2022 National Conference.
Hearing directly from participants in the Leadership Empowerment Action Project (LEAP) about their journeys, participants in this session will gain an understanding about the ways leadership development is a critical component of bringing equity into systems building work. Gain understanding of how intentional leadership development programs can equip the ECE workforce to be central in co-designing the systems meant to serve them and the children and families they work with.
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The 2022 Increase in Child Poverty is Especially Detrimental for Young Children
Blog September 25, 2023
This blog explains the impact of the policy choice to not renew the Child Tax Credit on the child poverty rate.
Home-Based Child Care: Embedding Wellness in HBCC Systems through Strengthening HBCC Networks: An Evidence-Based Framework for High Quality (Benchmarks)
Archived Webinar September 21, 2023
This recording and slide deck are from the September 19, 2023 Home-Based Child Care Webinar.
Workforce Compensation
Report August 29, 2023
A robust early childhood care and education workforce is at the heart of any solution to stabilize the child care sector, and adequate compensation is pivotal to that end. That reality comes through in the PDG B-5 grant applications; many states demonstrate a keen focus on supporting workforce compensation. This brief explores and synthesizes the strategies to increase compensation that states proposed in their PDG B-5 grant applications.