Child care is having a public reckoning right now, fueled by the shifting employment landscape as a result of the COVID-19 crisis, and a labor market that gives potential employees more options. Child care centers have reported challenges in finding…
3-part blog series Children & COVID – Part 1: Making Sense of Rates and Vaccination The summer 2021 surge in COVID-19 cases, despite widespread vaccination in the U.S., is particularly concerning for those focused on child health. Several factors have…
COVID-19 blog series As the country has considered how it will emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic, child care has remained a central topic of conversation, sitting at the intersection of education, the economy, workforce, and family dynamics. Simply, the pandemic acutely highlighted…
Children & COVID – Part 1: Making sense of rates and vaccination and Part 3: Masks in Schools COVID-19 blog series Children At Risk Due to Lagging Vaccinations Experts urge that widespread adult vaccination is key to protecting children while so many…
Children & COVID – Part 2: Vaccine Update and Part 3: Masks in Schools COVID-19 blog series Increasing Rates of COVID-19 in Children The summer 2021 surge in COVID-19 cases, despite widespread vaccination in the U.S., is particularly concerning for…
COVID-19 blog series In early March 2021, Congress passed the American Rescue Plan (ARP) Act which included, among many other things, $39B for child care, $15B in Child Care Development Block Grants and $24B in Child Care Stabilization Funds. In May, the Administration…
by Mackenzie Soniak, PsyDDirector, Partners for Early Attuned Relationships (PEAR) Network, South Carolina Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health COVID-19 blog series “I’m just pouring from an empty cup.” This widespread feeling continues to be shared among adults as they…
COVID-19 blog series Nationally, an estimated 85 million people (17 percent of all U.S. households) are living as extended families, up from 58 million in 2001. About 2.7 million children live in extended family households, a significant amount of whom are being…
by Lorraine Cragan-Sullivan, South Carolina's Act Early Ambassador Did you know 23 percent of children aged 3-17 in South Carolina (210,441 children) have one or more emotional, behavioral, or developmental conditions (KIDS Count Data Book, 2017-2018)? That is nearly one-fourth of…