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Child care, preschool slots for CT children are dropping, report says
Proposed 5-year overhaul to CT child care system would cost $2B
Plan to overhaul child care in CT — Too ambitious, or not enough?
Survey: Pandemic Magnifies Employee Childcare Needs
Cora's Kids Help Danbury Residents Head Back to Work
DANBURY, CT -- While many of the providers in the Cora’s Kids network were not operating during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic because their clients lost jobs or were afraid to send their children to care, 32 of the 35 providers in the network are now open and ready to begin accepting children into their programs. Cora’s Kids is part of the DanburyWORKS initiative, whose mission is to improve equity and the quality of life in the City of Danbury; United Way of Western Connecticut provides backbone support.
Child Care and Early Education Providers Are in Crisis. How Are Funders Responding?
NEW YORK, NY -- There is near-universal consensus that early-childhood education programs can break cycles of poverty and lead to lasting upward mobility. But funders say they have always been fragile, and have only become more so due to COVID-19. Early care and education do not receive much public investment compared to K-12 public education. The result is a patchworked system—if you can call it a system—kept afloat by various sources of revenue. Most early care and education providers teetered at the financial edge, with a month or two of reserves on hand even before the crisis. Weeks of closure have likely led to permanent closures for thousands of child care centers.
Office of Early Childhood launches CTCARES for Family Child Care
Southington-Cheshire Community YMCAs Announce Emergency Child Care for Hospital Staff and First Responders During COVID-19 Crisis
Support Letter for Investment in Child Care and Early Learning Sector Impacted by COVID-19
HARTFORD, CT -- The Connecticut Early Childhood Funder Collaborative sent a letter to the CT Congressional delegation urging their support for emergency funding to address the impact of the coronavirus on young children, their families, providers and communities.
Women & Girls Fund Supports Affordable Childcare For Single Working Moms
Funding Opportunity: Strengthening Local Early Childhood Collaboration
The CT Early Childhood Funder Collaborative (CT ECFC), a project of CT Council for Philanthropy is accepting proposals from existing local early childhood collaboratives (such as STRIVE/Cradle to Career Coalitions, School Readiness Councils, former Discovery Early Childhood Collaboratives, DCF/Head Start Collaboratives, and Health Enhancement Community Collaboratives, etc.) to strengthen organizational capacity and implement birth to age 5 system projects. Deadline for submission is Friday, February 7, 2020.
Liberty Bank Foundation Approves $263,050 in GRants
DKH Expands Family Advocacy Reach With $616K Grant
New VNA Program to Help First-time Moms
State’s Childcare Subsidy Program Receives Long Awaited Funding Increase
Collaborative Presents Symposium on Family and Community Engagement
Three Bills to Make Child Care More Affordable, Accessible
HARTFORD, CT -- Senate bills 931, 933, and 934 seek to ensure that affordability and accessibility do not stand in the way of families looking to provide this basic resource for their children.