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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 Success by 6® project of United Way of
the Bay Area, is committed to improving child care quality
by upgrading the compensation, working conditions, and
training 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 .
- 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 and development:
- Children's cognitive, emotional,
and social development is more advanced when
they are in child care centers where teachers
are well-trained and staff turnover is low.
- Child care center teachers earn
an average hourly wage of between $7.86 and
$9.66, 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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