Center for the Study of Child Care Employment

03/07/2025

Let's support Maine early educators! Their state support is under threat, as the Governor proposes cutting the state's stipend program in half. The stipends have been a lifeline to early childhood educators. https://www.pressherald.com/2025/03/02/child-care-centers-say-cuts-to-state-stipend-would-set-back-a-barely-stabilizing-industry/ Maine Association for the Education of Young Children

🌟 MaineAEYC Co-Executive Director Leads Powerful Panel for Maine Legislature's Children's Caucus! 🌟

Our Co-Executive Director had the honor of facilitating an insightful panel discussion for the Maine Legislature's Children’s Caucus last week. The panel featured incredible voices in early childhood education and care, including:
✨Jennifer Michaud, MaineAEYC Board President & owner of Kids Kove Child Care
✨Whitney Files, CEO of Penobscot Bay YMCA
✨DeAnnah Re*****on, Assistant Early Head Start Educator at Waldo Community Action Partners

These leaders shared their successes, experiences, and challenges, highlighting the urgent need for continued investment in early childhood programs. They also expressed concerns about proposed budget cuts to critical services and answered thoughtful questions from our Legislators.

It's essential that we continue advocating for programs that support our children, families, and communities. 💙

11/14/2024

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11/14/2024

Don't miss this terrific opportunity! Deadline is Monday.

🚨📢Applications for our Integrated & are due this Monday, November 18!

This year-long part-time program offers a $12,500 stipend to cultivate expertise in early childhood policy and practices. The fellowship supports leadership development and enhances expertise while bridging research and policy. Choose the track that best fits your skills!

🌐 Visit our website to apply: https://buff.ly/3wKwCas

👀👉 It’s not too late to share this opportunity with a passionate ECE professional or grad student. Tag them in the comments or share this post!

11/12/2024

Early Childhood Educators - If you don't get health insurance through your employer, you may qualify for a low-cost quality Healthcare.gov plan! All plans cover essential benefits such as primary care visits, prescriptions, and emergency care. Learn more at
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10/15/2024

Early educators are engaged in incredibly difficult and complex work that has been recognized as essential to children’s learning and development, supportive for families, and foundational to the economy.

10/15/2024

Must read!! 🌟 Today's article by Emily Tate Sullivan in is some of the best reporting yet on the state of the early care and education workforce post-ARPA. (And CSCCE's 2024 Index). She speaks with one educator in D.C. who shows how public funding has transformed their profession & life. And she interviews Corrine Hendrickson, on the other end of the spectrum, who's been forced to raise fees because Wisconsin has not supported its early educators - and still struggles to get by.

Early childhood educators earn, on average, about $13 per hour, a wage that puts them in the bottom 3 percent of workers nationally. But what about all ...

09/26/2024

This evening!! How do multilayered effects of racism affect the early care and education workforce? Don't miss tonight's kickoff webinar on Sept. 26, 6:30 - 8:30 pm P.T., to learn more about CSCCE's recent report, with report author Yoonjeon Kim. Sign up at https://ow.ly/qf8650TjvhH

The second convening on October 10 from 6:30 - 8:30 pm P.T. will feature small group
discussions. They'll focus on identifying the steps we can take to dismantle the deeply entrenched
racial injustices within the system.

Co-hosted by Partnerships for Education, Articulation and Coordination through Higher Education (PEACH) and the Center for the Study of Child Care Employment (CSCCE) at UC Berkeley.

09/25/2024

Coming Thursday!! How do multilayered effects of racism affect the early care and education workforce? Don't miss the Part 1 webinar on Sept. 26, 6:30 - 8:30 pm P.T., to learn more about CSCCE's recent report. Sign up at https://ow.ly/qf8650TjvhH

The second convening on October 10 from 6:30 - 8:30 pm P.T. will feature small group
discussions. They'll focus on identifying the steps we can take to dismantle the deeply entrenched
racial injustices within the system.

Co-hosted by Partnerships for Education, Articulation and Coordination through Higher Education (PEACH) and the Center for the Study of Child Care Employment (CSCCE) at UC Berkeley.

09/09/2024

This brief highlights the invaluable role immigrant caregivers — often grandmothers — play in supporting families. Their culturally responsive, multilingual care strengthens family bonds, yet they remain largely unrecognized in policy decisions. Help us shine a light on these essential caregivers during !

This brief highlights the experiences of immigrants among family, friend, and neighbor caregivers.

08/23/2024

How do we get to 'affordable, quality child care?' Elizabeth Pufall Jones tells the LA Times how it is! “Tinkering with the existing system of vouchers and tax credits will only keep wages low and perpetuate inequities,” said Elizabeth Pufall Jones, a director at the Center for the Study of Child Care Employment at UC Berkeley. “A publicly funded system with universal access is the only way to address equity.”

Parents want Harris and Trump to prioritize affordable child care. Here’s where the presidential candidates' track records stand on an overhaul of the system.

08/19/2024

NEW WEBINAR! Join Early Edge California and the UC Berkeley Center for the Study of Child Care Employment (CSCCE) for our webinar “California Needs Caregivers: The Importance of Family, Friend, and Neighbor Child Care” on September 4, 2024 from 10 - 11 am (PT), which will focus on uplifting the importance of Family, Friend, and Neighbor (FFN) care in serving California’s kids. 🚼 Learn more and register here: https://earlyedgecalifornia.org/webinar-california-needs-caregivers-the-importance-of-family-friend-and-neighbor-child-care/

06/25/2024

Are you at ACF's ? Catch Anna Powell tomorrow in her Family Friend and Neighbor presentation at 12:15 p.m. E.T.