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🎉 Exciting News! Connecting parents with child care providers just got simpler and more convenient! With our latest Child Care Finder feature, "Request a Tour," saying goodbye to child care search guesswork is getting a whole lot easier. ✅ For Parents: No more uncertainty! Easily schedule visits with providers, even when tour times aren't listed. Simply propose your preferred dates and times, and our technology platform will handle the rest, ensuring a seamless connection with the perfect child care option for your family. ✅ For Providers: Enjoy unparalleled flexibility in managing tour requests effortlessly. Confirm or reschedule at your convenience, ensuring smooth interactions with prospective families and making enrollment a breeze. ✅ For State Agencies: Effortlessly bridge the gap between parents and providers while simplifying the tour scheduling process for busy families. Gain real-time insight into program availability to better serve your community's child care needs. A heartfelt shoutout to our incredible team for their unwavering commitment to making the Wonderschool Child Care Finder the most responsive and easy-to-use way to access quality care online.  #Wonderschool #ChildCare #Parenting #EarlyEducation

Today Governor Healey laid out the administration’s bold agenda to make early education and child care more affordable and accessible for all families across Massachusetts, which includes: - Delivering universal, high-quality preschool access for four-year-olds in all Gateway Cities by the end of 2026. - Increasing Child Care Financial Assistance eligibility from 50% of the state median income (SMI) to 85% SMI to help an additional 4,000 low-and moderate-income families afford care.  - Continuing Commonwealth Cares for Children (C3) grants in FY25. - Signing an executive order to recognize the essential role child care plays in driving the state’s economy and competitiveness forward and directing the Healey-Driscoll administration to take a whole-of-government approach to ensuring affordable, high-quality child care. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/eJ3djN-x #Government #ChildCare #MAPoli #Preschool #PreK #UPK

Securing funding for early childhood programs often relies on demonstrating their effectiveness. Unfortunately, limited data can make it difficult to accurately measure program impact. Our Child Universal Success Platform (CUSP) allows you to easily track childcare program participation, analyze trends, and assess program outcomes. This data-driven approach provides valuable insights that can be used to: • Refine existing programs for better results • Secure future funding with clear evidence of impact • Develop new initiatives to address unmet needs 𝗕𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗮 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮-𝗱𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗻 𝗮𝗱𝘃𝗼𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗲! Schedule your personalized CUSP demo today at www.team3si.com/calendar and see how CUSP can help you showcase the positive impact of your work. #ChildSuccess #DataDriven #ChildAdvocacy #3Si #ImpactMeasurement

Most research on access to child care and early education (CCEE) has not accounted for what families search for, prefer, and need. In this video from our research partner Child Trends, four parents describe their experiences finding CCEE. Their stories help bring the four dimensions of the “Multi-Dimensional Framework of Access to Child Care and Early Education” to life: reasonable effort, affordability, supports children’s development, and meets parents’ needs. It shows how important all four of the dimensions are and how parents think about them when finding care for their children. Watch this preview and click to view the full video. <https://buff.ly/48P9nJi> #ChildCare #ECE #ECEchat #FamilyVoices

Most research on access to child care and early education (CCEE) has not accounted for what families search for, prefer, and need. In this video from our research partner Child Trends, four parents describe their experiences finding CCEE. Their stories help bring the four dimensions of the “Multi-Dimensional Framework of Access to Child Care and Early Education” to life: reasonable effort, affordability, supports children’s development, and meets parents’ needs. It shows how important all four of the dimensions are and how parents think about them when finding care for their children. Watch this preview and click to view the full video. <https://buff.ly/48P9nJi> #ChildCare #ECE #ECEchat #FamilyVoices

We've all heard stories of children missing developmental growth opportunities due to a lack of early learning and childcare options. Others haven't received the support they need because fragmented state data hinders access. These are just a few examples of how incomplete data translates to missed opportunities for young children. Our Child Universal Success Platform (CUSP) can help change this narrative for children. It provides a holistic view, empowering agencies to proactively identify children in need and connect them with the right resources at the right time. Ready to make a difference? Schedule your personalized CUSP demo today, at www.team3si.com/calendar and see how we can help! #ChildSuccess #DataDriven #ChildAdvocacy #3Si

So excited to share about meeting #StevensCounty Commissioner Kopitzke and County Administrator Becky Young . We talked about their awesome work in making over 60 new spots for family child care in Stevens County, MN.   Here’s what really stuck with me:   1. #NewGround: There’s so much still to learn about multi-unit child care spaces. It’s exciting to keep learning! 2. #TeamworkRocks: Having a strong team makes a huge difference. This project showed just how true that is. 3. #BigImpact: In this process, they’ve identified eight people who wanted to start child care but didn’t have the space. This shows there’s a big chance to do more for our communities.   I appreciated the opportunity to build more knowledge to help support the communities we’re helping guide through similar processes to create new space for child care. This work shows how creating spaces can really help our communities grow stronger.   Let's keep pushing and making things better, one step at a time! #Childcare #Rural #EconomicDevelopment  

Did you know Child Care Aware of America developed an interactive tool to help you track child care and early childhood education policies, funding allocations, and ballot measures across the nation? The dashboard allows researchers and advocates to learn how states are building more equitable, accessible, and affordable child care systems. #ECE #childcare

Our research shows 23% of parents experienced child care restraints (problems getting child care which make it different to work or study). We also found that 35% of parents experiencing child care restraints were unable to work or work more hours, 6% were unable to attend classes, and 23% were constrained in both work and studies. Worse health outcomes, like maternal depression, lower school readiness for children, and increased chance of developmental delays and family food insecurity were present in families experiencing child care restraints. We need to increase accessibility to child care programs to lower child care restraints. #childcare #healthcare #affordablechildcare #headstart

Most research on access to child care and early education (CCEE) has not accounted for what families search for, prefer, and need. In this video from our research partner Child Trends, four parents describe their experiences finding CCEE. Their stories help bring the four dimensions of the “Multi-Dimensional Framework of Access to Child Care and Early Education” to life: reasonable effort, affordability, supports children’s development, and meets parents’ needs. It shows how important all four of the dimensions are and how parents think about them when finding care for their children. Watch this preview and click to view the full video. https://buff.ly/48P9nJi #ChildCare #ECE #ECEchat #FamilyVoices