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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 and development:
- 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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