by mgiles | May 16, 2024 | Advocacy, Events, Workforce
A Day Without Child Care: Wisconsin Doesn’t Have to Imagine Challenges persist for providers, parents, and communities What happens to a community when regulated early care and education is no longer available? Over the past decade, Wisconsin residents have started...
by mgiles | Jan 19, 2024 | Events, Spotlight, WEESSN
Reflections on Five Years: The Shared Services Journey to Transform Child Care (Para español desplácese hacia abajo) It all started as community conversations in rural Vernon County with a core question in mind: “How can we come together to stabilize the supply of...
by cperenchio | Oct 30, 2023 | Conference, Events
‘I was inspired’: WECA Conference draws hundreds for engaging professional development experience (Para español lea más abajo). The WECA Conference provided inspiring sessions, new experiences, and even an amazing surprise during the professional development event’s...
by Ruth Schmidt | May 4, 2022 | Best Practices, Events, Workforce
Child care providers, parents and families across the country are marking, “A Day Without Child Care” on Monday, May 9, 2022. This day of action, sponsored by the national organization Community Change Action, aims to highlight the need for dignified, worthy wages for...
by Julie Giles | Apr 29, 2022 | Events, Food Program, Workforce
Provider Appreciation is usually a time for the community and families to pause and show appreciation for the child care providers who, through our work, keep others working. This year, I wanted to pause and reflect on my own appreciation of family child care and what...
by Jennifer Hilgendorf | May 14, 2019 | Events, Press Release, Workforce
Recently, 50 early childhood teachers across the country traveled to historic Philadelphia for the 2019 Terri Lynne Lokoff Children’s TYLENOL®, Children’s ZYRTEC® National Child Care Teacher Awards. Since 1994, The Terri Lynne Lokoff Child Care Foundation proudly...