Home-Based Child Care: Centering Authentic HBCC Educator Voices in ECE Systems
During this webinar, viewers learned how states, NAFCC, family child care associations, and provider-led community-based networks are addressing racial and linguistic inequities in early care and education systems by offering authentic, responsive, and relevant supports to marginalized family child care educators. Panelists shared their experience in re-envisioning, implementing, and sustaining ECE systems change with family child care educators at the center.
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