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 | Apr 27, 2022 | Advocacy, Best Practices, Workforce
Advocacy has always been a part of who I am, even when I was too young to even know what the word “advocacy” meant. Earlier this year, I got to take my passion for early childhood advocacy to a big stage – the offices of Wisconsin’s elected officials – during the...
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...
