If You Love Children…
This blog post provides an overview of several sessions from BUILD’s 2018 QRIS National Meeting from the point of view of a Connecticut participant. One of her main take-aways: “If you love children, you must leverage your view, your voice, and your visibility to improve the systems and quality of services for young children and families.
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Family Child Care in Crisis: Providers Discuss What Comes after Pandemic Funding Ends
Blog September 28, 2023
On September 30, 2023, federal funding made available to child care providers during the pandemic will expire. In this blog, providers discuss the impact.
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.