child care

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CCSA COVID-19 Relief Fund
CCSA Staff

Early Childhood COVID-19 Timeline, February – May Update: How do we define safety for kids, parents and child care providers in a post-COVID-19 world?

What does safety look like for all young children, and children and providers with high-risk conditions? When this blog series began more than one year ago, we wondered about the moment the child care system would be asked to return to normal, and asked what you hoped for the future. Now that the moment is approaching, it’s time we revisit that question.

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Professional Development
CCSA Staff

T.E.A.C.H.: A Brilliant Journey to A Brilliant Beginning

It’s no surprise that LaTida Adams has been the director of A Brilliant Beginning Daycare in Durham, N.C., for 22 years. Her journey in the early child care field started when she was in the sixth grade and wrote in her journal, “I’m going to own my own daycare.” What she might not have anticipated was the path she would take to get there.

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CCSA
CCSA Staff

Children Need Access to High-Quality Child Care and Teacher Education & Training from Birth to Third Grade

There is a direct relationship between the education of the early childhood workforce and the ability to support and promote healthy child development, which includes all of the building blocks for later learning-to-read readiness. North Carolinian children need teachers with early childhood education to help them learn. Just say no to SB570.

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