Child Care Aware of America Reacts to Federal Funding Pause
Index
Transformative professional development: Disaster preparedness, response, and recovery for Colorado’s Early Childhood Councils
How can the business community help its employees—and all workers—solve child care challenges?
Child care and the 2024 Election: How will the political landscape influence what’s next?
In 2024, child care was a crucial election issue, informing voter behavior and policy discussions. With the economy being another focus, candidates from both parties acknowledged the need for affordable and accessible child care, though they proposed dif...
Strengthening our child Care workforce by supporting access to affordable health insurance
This open enrollment season (Nov. 1 – Jan. 15), Child Care Resource & Referral agencies (CCR&Rs) have a unique opportunity to connect child care providers with affordable health insurance options through the health insurance marketplace. By shar...
Using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to map early childhood education policies across states
National Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Day celebrates the use of GIS, a powerful software tool used to create and display maps that help geographically illustrate and communicate complex problems. GIS maps can help identify assets and resources, ...
Federal Relief Funding for Child Care is Over. Now What?
Across the United States, there’s a patchwork of state child care policies and investments. In recent years, several states were able to expand eligibility, improve affordability, and make other changes to their child care policies, funded in part by...
Guest Blog: Strengthening Emergency Preparedness Through Local Partnerships and Provider Training
Child Care Aware of America (CCAoA) welcomes guest blog post that provide essential insights and information about the child care field. This guest blog post features a program in Johnson County, Kansas, that strengthens child care providers' emergency pr...
Talk to families about routine childhood vaccines.
Encourage families to talk to their health care providers about routine vaccines that will help keep their children healthy. ...
State Session Round Up: Summer 2024
Building off a busy legislative year in 2023, states continued to make progress in 2024 on advancing policies and investments for their child care systems. This year, states had multiple factors to juggle related to child care policy, including spending d...
