This blog highlights the commonalities between the California hotel workers currently striking for higher pay and better benefits, and child care workers who face similar burdens and inequities exacerbated by the pandemic.
The term emerging bilingual learner is used here to refer to children birth to age five who are learning two (or more) languages at the same time or are learning a second language while continuing to develop their first (home) language. Emerging bilingual learners are more likely than monolingual children to live in poverty and in families with low levels of education (National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, 2017). This collection of resources highlights the work being done to support emerging bilingual learners and their families.
Since 2020, BUILD Initiative has explored how the child welfare and early childhood systems – including all 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 provide inspiration for other states.
Over the course of this Whole Child Whole Family Whole Systems webinar series, we have journeyed together through the many forces that shape the lives of young children and their families: economic stability, maternal health, housing, homelessness, family supports, food security, and environmental conditions.
Over the course of this Whole Child Whole Family Whole Systems webinar series, we have journeyed together through the many forces that shape the lives of young children and their families: economic stability, maternal health, housing, homelessness, family supports, food security, and environmental conditions.
