Leaving and Staying: Understanding the Reasons Behind the Shifting Supply of Family Child Care
This session was presented during the BUILD 2022 National Conference.
Did you know that challenges related to ECE systems, including QIS, licensing, and subsidy, have been found to be a reason that family child care educators are leaving the field? Hear leading researchers and family child educators respond to the findings and recommendations from The Multi-State Study of Family Child Care Decline and Supply. This session will help deepen your understanding about how the intersecting factors contribute to actual exit from FCC work as well as the rewards that counter these challenges to keep educators in FCC work. Recommendations to create more equitable systems inclusive and supportive of FCC will be highlighted.
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State-level Data for Understanding Child Welfare in the United States
Report December 4, 2024
This comprehensive child welfare resource from Child Trends provides state and national data on child maltreatment, foster care, kinship caregiving, permanency, and older youth in care. The data are essential to help policymakers understand how many children and youth come in contact with the child welfare system, and why. States can use this information to ensure that their child welfare systems support the safety, stability, and well-being of all families in their state.
Ensuring Children in Foster Care get the Supports They Need: Innovating Our Way to Solutions
Blog November 26, 2024
Since 2020, BUILD Initiative has explored how the child welfare system and other early childhood systems (i.e., health, mental health, housing, early intervention, transportation, economic support, early care and education and all the child-and-family serving systems) can align and work together to achieve better outcomes for children and families. According to Dr. Cynthia Tate, who leads the project, several states are developing promising programs, policies, and strategies that can inspire other states.
Authentic Family & Community Engagement CoP: Part 2
Blog November 26, 2024
This is part 2 of 2 of the blog series on Collaborative Leadership and Power Building through Family and Community Partnerships.