NBCDI President Dr. Leah Austin discusses how the 52-year-old national organization that focuses on the healthy child development of Black children takes its mission and message to all U.S. communities, working with key local leaders, educators and parents to improve education, as well as offering key lessons from the NBCDI’s Early Years Climate Action Task Force.
The 24/7 news cycle tends to push certain crises at us for a day or two before other breaking stories come along to replace them. Of course, the human beings caught up in these tragedies don’t have the luxury of moving on. In the case of the forced separation of immigrant children from their families, young victims continue to face severe adversity.
Why ‘Family, Friend and Neighbor Care’ Is an Essential Part of America’s Child Care System
FFN care is the most common type of non-parental child care in the United States today.
At 3 a.m., Reina Solano was startled awake by the ring of her phone. Her daughter, Ivonne Valadez Solano, was...
The $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan signed into law by President Joe Biden has been lauded as a “force for...
When The New York Times declared, “America’s Mothers Are in Crisis” in February, it was hardly news to America’s mothers....
Fixing a Broken Marketplace
Talking Childcare with Elliot Haspel
Sometimes what seems like idealism at first can actually be canny realism. Case in point: Elliot Haspel’s recent book Crawling...
Economists are famously bad at predicting the future. (There’s even an old joke: Why did God create economists? To make weather forecasters look good.) Nevertheless, thinking like an economist can help prepare us for what lies ahead for our children.
Erin Kirkley, 25, of San Antonio, Tex., discovered the Ella Austin Community Center last year when she brought her baby...
Decades before the Covid pandemic, Ai-jen Poo realized that domestic workers who care for children and the elderly had few...
When the Washington Post published an article headlined “Books of the Ages — The best books to read at every...
Mississippians are resilient. In the face of tremendous danger, they have come together. We have been able to put politics aside and fight this virus as one.
Child Care Innovation: Centralizing Administrative Roles
Part 3 of a 5-part Series
Our country is in a child care crisis, exacerbated by the pandemic, which has shown how difficult it is for...
