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An Employer-led Solution to Child Care Challenges

February 17, 2023 | By Child Care Aware of Kansas
solution to child care

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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How Families Can Help Solve the Child Care Crisis

February 10, 2023 | By Child Care Aware of Kansas
Solve the Child Care Crisis

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

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Change is Possible

February 8, 2023 | By Child Care Aware of Kansas
expanding access to child care

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

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How Family Child Care Providers Can Become Advocates

January 24, 2023 | By Desiree Donovan
providers can become advocates

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

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A Better Child Care System for Kansas Parents

November 8, 2022 | By Child Care Aware of Kansas
A Better Child Care System for Kansas Parents. A working mother carrying child.

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

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An Opportunity to Equitably Fund Child Care

January 4, 2022 | By Child Care Aware of Kansas
Two Well Dressed Professionals Walk Down Courthouse Steps Outdoors

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,

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Elevating Provider Voices

December 22, 2021 | By Child Care Aware of Kansas
Provider Support Center

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

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Advocacy: Providers & Parents

December 15, 2021 | By Child Care Aware of Kansas
Family Resources

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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