A happy, healthy, and responsive early childhood education (ECE) workforce is a cornerstone of high-quality care.
Given the urgent need to support the well-being of the early childhood education workforce, especially those who work with children and families facing various adversities such as EHS/HS educators, the Administration for Children and Families of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services funded six wellness intervention projects.
This funding opportunity supported researchers testing existing, modified, or new intervention models that directly target improving early childhood education workforce well-being, higher classroom quality, and improved child outcomes.
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The Child Care Modernization Act Fails to Deliver Real Solutions to the Child Care Crisis
The Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF), which provides essential federal child care funding to states, is desperately underfunded and not designed to address the full scope of the child care crisis facing America. The Child Care Modernization Act is not the answer.
Through the lens of the National Diaper Bank Network, this article identifies diaper insecurity as a public health issue and examines its effects on child health, development, parental well-being, and access to child care and employment, while highlighting the importance of investments in diapers, health care, child care, and family support programs to help children thrive.