Early Childhood Director's Group

Join child care center colleagues

at the next

Early Childhood Directors Group

Thursday, January 14th^th – 10:00 am – noon

Think Small,  2021 Hennepin Ave. E., Mpls 55413

• Opportunities for Child Care Centers to Serve Infants and Toddlers Through Early Head Start Partnerships
• Presentation by Jeanne Dickhausen, Minnesota Head Start Collaboration Director and Lori Fuller and Nicole Duncan, Anoka County Community Action Program’s Early Head Start-Child Care Partnership.
• President Obama’s Early Learning Initiative set aside $500 million for new Early Head Start-Child Care Partnerships. These grants will allow Early Head Start grantees to partner with Child Care programs to provide full-day, full-year programming so that more low-income children in their community have the healthy and enriching early experiences they need to realize their full potential.
• Child Care Policy and Advocacy Update 
• Networking Time

Early Childhood Directors Group meetings are free and

open to all directors and assistant directors

No RSVP necessary. Questions? contact Nancy Johnson:  njohnson@thinksmall.org

For more info, visit our blog at: www.ecdirectorsgroup.blogspot.com

 

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Several directors requested that we post links to the studies and background reading for our discussion in November on staff compensation:

Worthy Work, STILL Unliveable Wages: The Early Childhood Workforce 25 Years after the National Child Care Staffing Study

         http://www.irle.berkeley.edu/cscce/2014/report-worthy-work-still-unlivable-wages/

by Marcy Whitebook, Deborah Phillips, and Carollee Howes

Full Report or Exec Summary

Why Childcare Workers Are So Poor, Even Though Childcare Costs So Much

         http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/11/childcare-workers-cant-afford-childcare/414496/

Aaron Loewenberg, writing for New America’s Early & Elementary Education Policy program, explores policy proposals that could increase the pay of child care teachers helping highly-qualified individuals stay in the field.

Childcare Teachers Underpaid and Underappreciated

         http://www.edcentral.org/child-care-workers/

 

Next Early Childhood Policy Hour, January 5th, 2016

Join us for Policy Hour on Tuesday, January 5 from Noon-1 p.m. at Think Small, 2021 Hennepin Ave. E, Suite 210, Minneapolis to hear about the DHS Child Care Development Block Grant plan. This plan describes how the state proposes to meet the new federal law governing child care assistance (CCAP in MN). The new law makes changes to protect the health and safety of children in child care, promote continuity of access to subsidy for low-income families, better inform parents and the general public about child care choices, and improve the overall quality of early care and education.

Policy Hour is held the first Tuesday of each month, noon-1:00 p.m. at Think Small, 2021 East Hennepin Avenue, Suite 250, Minneapolis, 55413.  Bring your lunch. Invite your friends. No RSVP necessary.