With a variety of new policies on the verge of implementation, one can’t help but wonder…What’s next for my family and me? (more…)...
Child Care Affordability: Will the New Policy Work? Or Is There Still Progress to be Made?
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House Appropriations Committee Proposes Funding Increase for CCDBG
Yesterday, the House Appropriations Committee approved the FY 2018 Labor, Health and Human Services, Education Appropriations Bill, and it included a proposed $4 million increase for the Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG), roughly $2.86 billio...
Provider Health Spotlight on JeAnne Faris
Spotlight JeAnne Faris, Trinity Lutheran Child Care Center, Kalispell, Montana (more…)...
Health Resource Spotlight: Child Care State Licensing Database
The Problem States need a way to measure whether their current child care licensing standards do or do not meet the Caring for Our Children Basics (CFOC Basics) guidelines. Those are the minimum health and safety standards that child care programs should...
Senate Unveils Draft Health Care Repeal Legislation Update
Earlier today, the Senate Majority Leader, Mitch McConnell (R-KY), released a third version of the "Better Care Reconciliation Act of 2017 (BCRA)," that would change or eliminate major provisions of the federal health care law. (more…)...
Child Care Aware® of America Releases 2017 State Fact Sheets
Help for families struggling to pay for quality child care, such as the federal Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG), is, pivotal to supporting quality child care in the nation. Strategically, states are already investing CCDBG funds in raising...
Sharing Vroom with the Child Care Community
Vroom has been an exciting addition to the work we do at the Capital District Child Care Council. Children develop cognitively, socially, emotionally, and physically through play. By bringing VROOM to the Capital District area of Albany, New York, ...
Editing Exchange: An Editor’s First Year Account of Understanding Child Care
One year ago, I stepped into my new role as Editor-in-Chief of Exchange, a magazine for early childhood leaders. I was to fill the biggest shoes imaginable—those of a founding editor who had helmed the magazine since its inception 38 years ago. Although...
June 2017 Child Care Provider of the Month – Hampton University Child Development Center
Arlington, VA – Child Care Aware® of America (CCAoA), National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC), National Head Start Association (NHSA), National Indian Child Care Association (NICCA), National Association for Family Child Care (...
The Exorbitant Cost of Child Care: A Millennial Parent Perspective
I am a 26-year-old single mother of a beautiful little girl. I love being a parent. But the cost of child care for a child under the age of two is so expensive in the Washington, DC metro area. More than half of my paycheck goes to child care. As millenn...
