Family Child Care Associates

While we often (and rightly) focus on the "care" part of family child care, it's still a small business. So for all those small business owners, a new player has entered the market those of you in metro areas should be away of. A novel approach to FNN care: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/31/business/otter-child-care.html

Silicon Valley Discovers an Age-Old Child Care Hack: The Neighbors Otter, a new child care platform, is attracting millions of dollars in venture capital. But can it fix a broken industry?

Want to improve the marketing of your FCC business? Great program coming up next week.

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Marketing and Messaging for Home-Based Child Care. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting. Each webinar in this series is based on BUILD's home-based child care (HBCC) core concepts and how HBCC meets a critical need for families, the need to build a lasting infrastructure through systemic supports for HBCC, and networks as the strategy to develop this lasting infrastructure. In this sess...

What Keeps Employed Parents out of the Child Care System? One in three working parents do not rely on formal child care, so who is caring for these young children?

How does your state measure up? Use the data in the FFY as part of your advocacy to support more funding to reach more eligible children and families!

FFYF's 2022 Child Care & Early Learning State Fact Sheets Take a look at the limited reach of early learning & care programs in your state.

Business leaders are still paying attention to the child care crisis in America.

As Child Care Challenges Threaten the American Workforce, Business Leaders Call for Action - EdSurge News Many business leaders are asserting that a lack of child care solutions for American employees is a key business challenge that’s threatening the ...

https://www.americanprogress.org/article/still-underpaid-and-unequal/

Still Underpaid and Unequal New, comprehensive data on child care workers in center-based programs—analyzing their demographics, education, experience, and wages—reveal widening pay gaps and inequality.

No surprise here. FCC providers have known this for years. "The Treasury Department has deemed U.S. child care a market failure.

Bonus checks! One year free! How states are trying to fix a broken child care system There's still a shortage of child care teachers and that's keeping parents out of the workforce. Dozens of states are trying to lure back providers and lower costs for families.

https://www.kxan.com/investigations/long-waitlists-in-central-texas-families-scramble-to-find-child-care/ We need to grow more homes!

Long waitlists in Central Texas: Families scramble to find child care Success By 6, a coalition of early childhood advocates and part of the United Way for Greater Austin surveyed child care providers in Travis County during the spring and found 89% had difficulty hi…

https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2022-06-30/investing-in-caregiving-an-equitable-way-to-reduce-inflation

Investing in Caregiving: An Equitable Way to Reduce Inflation Better paid leave and child care policies can help the economy while easing the burden on women and families.

https://www.erikson.edu/event/prek-in-family-child-care-project-pkfcc-kickoff-webinar/

PreK in Family Child Care Project (PKFCC) Kickoff Webinar | Erikson Institute Please register to join us for the PreK in Family Child Care Project Kickoff Webinar on July 14th (1-2pm CT/ 2-3pm ET). Presenters will introduce the project, share a conceptual framework for the equitable inclusion of FCC in PreK initiatives,Read More ›

Live near a Coast Guard base? Take note!

GAO: Coast Guard Is Taking Steps to Increase Child Care Access - HS Today Coast Guard families reported facing challenges related to a limited supply of community-based child care generally. Coast Guard families reported facing challenges related to a limited supply of community-based child care generally.

News from Michigan:

SEIU Healthcare Michigan is under trusteeship once again Its second trusteeship in five years owes to ‘substantiated allegations of serious malpractice’