An Employer-led Solution to Child Care Challenges
February 17, 2023 | By Child Care Aware of Kansas
Originally published in the Winter 2023 issue of Kansas Child Magazine. Where is the Workforce? Everywhere you go these days, you hear a version of the same question: where is the workforce? In coffee shops, around kitchen tables, and in boardrooms across the country, people are
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February 10, 2023 | By Child Care Aware of Kansas
Originally published in the Winter 2023 issue of Kansas Child Magazine. The Challenges We Face At 1:30 a.m., I wake up to my phone buzzing with a new text message. Day care will be closed tomorrow due to illness. I spend the next several hours tossing and turning, wondering
read moreChange is Possible
February 8, 2023 | By Child Care Aware of Kansas
Originally published in the Winter 2023 issue of Kansas Child Magazine. How Kansas Communities are Expanding Access to Child Care Many think the child care system is too broken to change. Kansas communities are proving the naysayers wrong. Small incremental changes on the
read moreHow Family Child Care Providers Can Become Advocates
January 24, 2023 | By Desiree Donovan
Originally published in the Winter 2023 issue of Kansas Child Magazine. As providers, we are often encouraged to advocate and become involved in issues that affect the children and families we serve. For a busy family child care provider, what does that look like exactly? When I started
read moreA Better Child Care System for Kansas Parents
November 8, 2022 | By Child Care Aware of Kansas
How We Can Build a Better System for Kansas Parents By Jessica Herrera Russell, Senior Communications Manager, Kansas Action for Children. Originally published in the Fall 2022 issue of Kansas Child Magazine. This past spring, the Kansas Legislature took a significant step toward
read moreAn Opportunity to Equitably Fund Child Care
January 4, 2022 | By Child Care Aware of Kansas
By MK Falgout, Research Assistant for Early Childhood Policy, Center for American Progress. Article originally published in the Fall 2021 Issue of Kansas Child Magazine. For decades, America’s child care system quite simply has not worked. Families struggle to afford quality child care,
read moreElevating Provider Voices
December 22, 2021 | By Child Care Aware of Kansas
By Berni Howe, Lead Training and Technical Assistant Specialist, KCCTO and Tara Glanton, Training and Technical Assistant Specialist, KCCTO. Article originally published in the Winter 2021 Issue of Kansas Child Magazine. Elevating Provider Voices 2020 has been robust, with quick shifts
read moreAdvocacy: Providers & Parents
December 15, 2021 | By Child Care Aware of Kansas
The Voices That Should Inform Change-Process In Our Child Care System By Peggy Kelly, Executive Director, Kansas Head Start Association. Originally published in the Winter 2021 Issue of Kansas Child Magazine. Long before COVID-19 completely redesigned our lives and view of what
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