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Take Action: Advocate for High-Quality Early Care and Education in North Carolina
Parents’ and caregivers ’ access to high quality early care and education (ECE) is essential to their ability to provide for their families, contributes to young children’s overall development, health and wellness, and is critical to local economies. With fewer people entering the ECE workforce, sharing the value added and impact of high quality child care on families’ is more important than ever.
- Take Care documentary
With funding from the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, a new short documentary that examines North Carolina’s child care crisis through the voices and stories of our families, child care providers and teachers, and business and community leaders—is now available.
We all know that North Carolina’s child crisis is hurting everyone—children, families, child care teachers and providers, businesses, and our economy. Knowing it and seeing it are two different things. Take Care provides firsthand account of how this crisis is impacting all of us, how communities are trying to address the crisis, and what is at stake if we don’t create lasting solutions. Why this matters – Now is the time to highlight and educate others on the need for public/private partnerships and the potential community impact of investments in high quality early care and education. - An Unusual Reason: A Connection to the Workforce Crisis
A documentary for change from the Rockingham County Partnership for Children
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NM4Eos6YmGo - Raise NC
North Carolina relies on quality early childhood care and education teachers and programs to support children’s healthy development and learning, allow parents to work and keep businesses running. Yet our birth-to-five programs are in crisis—one that has been decades in the making and was exacerbated by the pandemic.
Raise North Carolina is a public education campaign to build appreciation and support for North Carolina’s early care and learning network and the teachers who serve children, families, and North Carolina. For more information, please visit Raise NC
