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A Human Infrastructure Stimulus Is Needed
IN THE MIDST of the COVID-19 crisis, the United States stands at an inflection point; our policymakers hold in their hands the future of the American narrative. In this time of uncertainty, what will we prioritize when it comes to rebuilding our country’s infrastructure? - Commonwealth Magazine
Extended Closures Could Mean Some Massachusetts Day Cares Never Reopen
Day care providers in Massachusetts, already ordered closed since March 23, could struggle to ever reopen unless they can get more aid, according to early childhood advocates. - WBUR Edify
The Coronavirus Puts Child Care Sector In Need of a Bailout
Parents across the Commonwealth face a painful economic bind: their children are at home, but the child care check is still due. COVID-19 has (rightfully) forced the closure of child care centers across Massachusetts. In doing so, it has forced a profound reckoning about the state of the American child care system. - Boston Globe
Ellis Enters Capacity-Building Partnership With Neighborhood Villages
Ellis, a Boston nonprofit that provides intervention and counseling services to children, disabled adults, elders, and families, today announced it has entered into a capacity-building partnership with another Boston nonprofit. The partnership with Neighborhood Villages, which promotes strong communities through delivery of quality, affordable child care and education, will fund two positions, an operations manager and a family support navigator, who will be hired by and work for Ellis.
Speaker DeLeo Tours New Social Centers Pilots Program
Speaker Robert DeLeo stopped by the Social Centers to check out a new pilot program that is a collaboration between the Social Centers, Neighborhood Villages, Bunker Hill Community College and Urban College.
Meet Lauren Birchfield Kennedy, a Harvard-educated lawyer and children’s adovocate who’s also Joe Kennedy’s wife
[Kennedy] met another mother with a newborn, Sarah Siegel Muncey, a teacher and administrator at Boston Collegiate Charter School in Dorchester. They bonded, in part, she said, over “a shared frustration over how, in today’s modern era could it still possibly be this hard to, as a woman, frankly just figure out how to go back to work, to say nothing of how do I ensure that I am still on track to achieve my career aspirations and potential.” Together they founded Neighborhood Villages. - Boston Globe
Viewpoint: Child Care Crisis Hurts Workplaces
A focus group of business leaders met recently to discuss an issue not normally associated with the business community: child care and early childhood education. The conversation was motivated not only by a commitment to do right by Massachusetts families but also by an increasing reality in the workplace: employees’ inability to access affordable, high-quality child care is taking a toll on employers too.