The Importance of Home-Based Educator Wellness in Equitable Early Childhood Systems
These resources are from the March 21, 2023 HBCC Webinar
In this session we discussed about the importance of home-based child care educator wellness in creating equitable early childhood systems. Shayla Collins (UW Center for Child & Family Well-Being) modeled some wellness strategies for us that HBCC educators can use as well. Then, Dr. Juliet Bromer (Erikson/HomeGrown) discussed benchmarks for educator wellness. DeCarla Burton (Supporting Professional Network Association/SPNA) illustrated what caring for educator wellness looks like in SPNA and the difference it makes for educators.
Access the slide deck here.
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Video April 3, 2025
Early childhood professionals recognize that the child- and family-serving systems that are not generally considered to be under the umbrella of the early childhood system—like housing, economic development, and transportation—are less often viewed as opportunities for or barriers to child and family well-being. Each of these systems, and how they interact with one another, impacts a child’s outcome. It is up to early childhood systems builders to identify the barriers to positive outcomes that result from an issue with any of the elements within the overall system. This is one of the early childhood systems builders’ greatest challenges, as these barriers are deeply interwoven with our country’s history and ongoing practice of discrimination and disinvestment. This video describes how BUILD views an Early Childhood System that focuses on the whole child, the whole family, and whole systems.