Today, thank a child care provider. It's Child Care ProviderAppreciationDay. Alabama child care providers/supporters say more state funding will help more parents go to work & more children receive quality care, in a state short 85,000 child care spots.
“Early care and early learning centers are an integral part of a thriving economy,” Hicks said. “If economic growth is going to happen in Alabama, in Jefferson County or Birmingham City, then we’ve got to make sure that we’ve got the infrastructure to support it. And that includes a thriving, well funded, quality education program for families with young children.”to improve the long-term educational outcomes of the children and can mitigate poverty into adulthood.
Hicks says full funding from the legislator would help the 40% of her staff who have to take on second jobs. Thompson-Wilson has benefitted from a Child Care Workforce Stabilization grant from the Alabama Department of Human Resources that allows her to give quarterly bonuses of $3,000 to full-time workers and $1,500 to part-time workers.
“It has us in a place now where are the people going to leave us or are they going to stay? Are they going to continue with us or what are we going to do? Are we going to lose them just because we can’t give them that incentive anymore?,” said Thompson-Wilson. “It has child care workers up in the air.”
The Bipartisan Policy Center report found that states who were able to reduce or overcome their gaps did so by expanding infant and rural child care programs, improving child care quality, and expanding the child care workforce via scholarships aimed at building a pipeline of early educators.
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