by Julie Giles | Mar 16, 2022 | Food Program, Uncategorized, Workforce
by Julie Giles, Food Program Specialist At least twice during my time as a family child care provider, we were unsure if the federal Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) would continue. That’s when Wisconsin Early Childhood Association’s Food Program staff sprang...
by Ruth Schmidt | Feb 16, 2022 | Advocacy, Best Practices, Policy, Press Release, Workforce
by Ruth Schmidt High-quality, affordable and accessible child care is critical. Wisconsin parents know it, business and community leaders know it and child care professionals know it. With the state legislature’s Joint Finance Committee recent unanimous approval of...
by Ruth Schmidt | Dec 1, 2021 | Advocacy, Best Practices, Policy, Workforce
WECA announces the release of its recommendations brief, “The State of Wisconsin’s Early Care and Education Workforce,” in response to key findings of the Series of Studies of the Wisconsin Early Education Workforce, published today by the Department of Children and...
by Ruth Schmidt | Nov 23, 2021 | Advocacy, Workforce
We are on the precipice of a timely opportunity in Wisconsin and the United States – an opportunity to completely transform the early care and education landscape through the Build Back Better bill making its way through the U.S. House and Senate. We’re incredibly...
by Jennifer Hilgendorf | Sep 9, 2021 | Workforce
The Wisconsin Early Childhood Association (WECA) would like to take a collective pause to thank the tireless efforts of those working in the education field, particularly the early care and education workforce before another pandemic school year starts. During the...
by Grace Reef | May 17, 2021 | Advocacy, Best Practices, Policy, Workforce
by: Grace Reef, Senior Outreach Consultant at Committee for Economic Development (CED) The good news is that the President and Congress are talking about large investments in child care and preschool. Families have long struggled with the cost of child care....