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It’s Time to Bring Child Care Assistance and Safe and Secure Housing Together for Young Children in Families Experiencing Homelessness

Additional federal funds have arrived. Guidance documents are now available. It’s time to expand the partnerships necessary to ensure young children in families experiencing homelessness have access to high-quality child care and housing. It’s doable. It’s time to prioritize it.

Marsha Basloe, President and CCSA Staff June 17, 2021

CCSA COVID-19 Relief Fund

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.

Allory Bors, Research Coordinator and CCSA Staff May 26, 2021

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North Carolina’s Economic Recovery: Time for Employers to Support Innovative Child Care Solutions

The pathway to economic recovery depends not only on jobs from North Carolina’s new technology partners but innovative solutions for our state’s child care challenges. Who better than our new technology employers to model the way?

Marsha Basloe, President and CCSA Staff May 17, 2021

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WAGE$ Supplements are Vital for Early Childhood Educators, Pandemic or Not

While the WAGE$ program has helped many educators like Mozella in a time of need, if educators continue to receive low wages, there won’t be any left, pandemic or not.

Dante Spado, Communications Intern and CCSA Staff April 28, 2021

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Too Many North Carolina Children Lack Access to High-Quality Pre-K; Pandemic Made it Worse

The COVID-19 pandemic set back state preschool enrollment and funding across the country, according to the 2020 edition of The State of Preschool Yearbook by the National Institute for Early Education Research (NIEER) at the Rutgers Graduate School of Education.

Jennifer Gioia, CCSA Communications Manager and CCSA Staff April 19, 2021

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American Rescue Plan and the Child Care Workforce

Congress has spoken – with rules and funding. Now it’s up to each state to figure out the next steps as to how the new funding will be used best.

Marsha Basloe, President and CCSA Staff March 18, 2021

COVID-19

It’s Time to Bring Child Care Assistance and Safe and Secure Housing Together for Young Children in Families Experiencing Homelessness

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?

North Carolina’s Economic Recovery: Time for Employers to Support Innovative Child Care Solutions

WAGE$ Supplements are Vital for Early Childhood Educators, Pandemic or Not

Too Many North Carolina Children Lack Access to High-Quality Pre-K; Pandemic Made it Worse

American Rescue Plan and the Child Care Workforce

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