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Helping
California build a skilled and stable child care workforce.
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Number One Barrier |
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Quality of Child Care |
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Low Compensation |
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High Turnover |
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Child Care Workforce |
Working for Quality Child Care (W4QCC), a project of United Way of the Bay Area, is committed to improving child care quality by upgrading the compensation, working conditions, and professional development of the child care workforce in California.
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W4QCC:
- Provides up-to-date information on the child care workforce and compensation initiatives like CARES and AB212.
- Contributes to the efforts of advocates, planners, and policy makers to improve child care quality and conditions for child care workers.
- Helps build the leadership skills of child care teachers and family child care providers in the CA Child Development Corps so that they can participate in public policy decisions.
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The child care workforce is key to children's early learning
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- Children's cognitive, emotional, and social development is more advanced when they are in child care centers or family child care where teachers are well-trained and staff turnover is low.
- Child care center teachers earn an average hourly wage of between $10.78 and $13.78, and lack health insurance, resulting in jobs that do not support a stable, well-trained workforce. Family child care providers also have low earnings and benefits, which undermines their ability to serve children.
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