I focused on the organization, Child Care Aware of America. The link for this organization is www.naccrra.org.
This organization focuses on bettering our country to better support, educate, and protect all children. NACCRRA works with national and state level agencies to create public policies and initatives in education. NACCRRA created a strategic plan to span from 2010-2015, this is the link to read about their plan, http://www.naccrra.org/sites/default/files/default_site_pages/2012/strategic_plan_2010-2015.pdf.
On their website they have a blog that I subscribed to and this week they focused on the first ever Rally4Babies which was sponsored by ZERO-TO-THREE. The rally was to bring awareness to the importance of supporting early learning for infants and toddlers and to bring Americans together to recognize the importance of supporting policies that will enhance early learning and development for infants and toddlers.
I searched through the website to find information that pertained to this week's topics and ideas and found a section on Child Demographics with the most recent report from April 2013. The fact sheet can be found at http://www.naccrra.org/sites/default/files/default_site_pages/2013/census_bureau_fact_sheet_april_2013.pdf. The fact sheet is titled "Who's Minding the Kids?" and is based off of the Census Report found at http://www.census.gov/prod/2013pubs/p70-135.pdf. This report details child care arrangements based on the family structure, the family's work schedule, poverty level, and parent ethnicity. The report is a great resource, especially for child care agencies and organizations to see the needs of our population.
3 comments:
Dear Amber,
I had never heard of the Child Care Aware of America, before reading your blog. It looks very interesting, especially for the child care realm. Are you currently working in child care? I also noted on their site that they had a section for Military Families. This was a section of interest on the Zero TO Three website as well. I think that overall, the issues that families and young children face (such as parents being overseas in the military) are being addressed properly. To support families in various ways helps the young child to develop. I noticed that the Child Care Aware of America is very involved in child advocacy, something near and dear to the core of this master's program. Have you found any new ways to advocate for young children, by perusing this site?
Thanks and talk to you soon!
Anne
Dear Amber,
I had never heard of the Child Care Aware of America, before reading your blog. It looks very interesting, especially for the child care realm. Are you currently working in child care? I also noted on their site that they had a section for Military Families. This was a section of interest on the Zero TO Three website as well. I think that overall, the issues that families and young children face (such as parents being overseas in the military) are being addressed properly. To support families in various ways helps the young child to develop. I noticed that the Child Care Aware of America is very involved in child advocacy, something near and dear to the core of this master's program. Have you found any new ways to advocate for young children, by perusing this site?
Thanks and talk to you soon!
Anne
Amber,
I have never heard of Child Care Aware of America before either. I really like the fact that they are so invloved with child advocacy. I feel that sometimes that gets lost and it becomes more about the adults involved. Thank you for introducing me to this site.
Eileen
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