LEAPS Employer Toolkit: Preventing Workplace Sexual Harassment
With the LEAPS-SH Toolkit, you will be able to operationalize:
● Prevention: Proactive measures cultivate and sustain safe and respectful ecosystems, and can prevent harassment from occurring in the first place.
● Effective Response: Clear reporting procedures combined with trauma-informed support to victims can resolve incidents more successfully and prevent further damage to your organization.
● Sustainable transformation: Understanding power dynamics and their systemic impacts empowers leaders with a strong foundation to not only direct change but sustain it.
Child Care Expansion
Child Care is a top priority for Stanislaus 2030. A good child care system both creates and enables jobs by supporting good jobs for those working in childcare, and enables parents to participate in work, education, job training, or other related activities. Yet, in Stanislaus County, access to child care is a serious barrier, and in order to meet local …
How D.C. tackled a child care crunch through a tax hike on the rich
NPR December 13, 2024 By Andrea Hsu WASHINGTON, D.C. — When Boniece Gillis first heard rumblings that child care workers across the city might be getting some kind of significant pay bump, she tried to keep her excitement in check. “I was like, I’ll believe it when it comes,” says Gillis, an assistant teacher with Educare DC who was making …
Thriving Providers Project
Stabilizing the economic well-being of home-based child care providers so children can succeed. When providers thrive, children and families succeed. Thriving Provider Project works with regional partners to provide direct cash payments to Family, Friend and Neighbor (FFN) caregivers and newly licensed Family Child Care (FCC) home providers. How it works This program will be piloted in multiple locations. Selected …
Early Education and Care Staff Pilot Program
The Department of Early Education and Care (EEC) launched a pilot in January 2023 through the existing child care financial assistance program system to provide access to vouchers and contracted slots to income eligible staff working in programs licensed or funded by EEC. Any staff who qualify for a voucher and work at an early education or school aged program …
Kentucky had an outside-the-box idea to fix child care worker shortages. It’s working
Photo Credit: skynesher/Getty Images NPR October 6, 2023 By Andrea Hsu With most of the federal government’s pandemic relief money for child care now spent, it’s up to states to step in with new ideas to solve the many problems plaguing the sector. A year ago, Kentucky came up with a creative solution that is already paying dividends. The state …
What the Bluegrass State Can Teach Us About Increasing Access to Child Care
Center for the Study of Child Care Employment October 26, 2023 By Anna Powell and Annie Dade Kentucky made headlines recently for increasing access to early care and education (ECE): a unique strategy helps parents who work in ECE programs access subsidies for their own child care needs. Last year, Kentucky enacted a change in the state subsidy system, the …