Child Care Nutrition Enhancement Act
Home Grown is proud to endorse the Child Care Nutrition Enhancement Act. We look forward to working with Members of Congress to help accomplish our shared goal of keeping our kids fed.
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Parents Choose Quality When They Use Family, Friend and Neighbor Care
This blog dives into the value of family, friend and neighbor care for parents and children around the U.S. while calling for inclusion of FFN care in policy, resources and supports.
Home Grown’s Comments on NPRM and CCDF Preprint Plan
Home Grown is grateful to the Biden-Harris administration for proposing changes in response to both the needs of families to access affordable, quality child care and to the needs of child care providers to earn a family-sustaining wage for their critically necessary work offering high-quality child care. Our recommendations aim to ensure that all home-based
Grandparents are Holding the Fort as Child Care Providers, But They’re Breaking
Jessica Stone was pregnant with her second child when her marriage disintegrated. Jessica suddenly found herself in a child care crisis: her marriage had ended, she needed to go back to work, and she couldn’t afford (or find) childcare for two young children. Distraught and desperate, Jessica turned to the people who couldn’t say no: her own mom and dad.
Holistic Compensation Approaches Prioritize Benefits Access
Home Grown believes that to reform our child care system there should be holistic compensation approaches for providers that include fair wages, access health care retirement, nutrition assistance, housing support, paid leave, loan forgiveness and others.
Who Cares for the Caregivers: Insights from Providers’ Experience with Health Care
Early educators are far more likely to be uninsured than their counterparts in the K-12 system. This blog profiles the challenges that home-based child care providers face around the unpredictability of health care costs.
Investment in Food, Nutrition in Child Care and Head Start Lapses, 56 National Organizations Urge Congress to Act Now
Home Grown is among 56 national organizations urging Congress to extend the Keep Kids Fed Act (KKFA) meal reimbursement increases for an additional year to help child care providers and schools feed children over the summer and during the upcoming school year. We urge Congress to act now.
Home Grown Reacts to the Supreme Court’s Decision to Strike Down the Biden Administration’s Student Loan Forgiveness Plan
Home Grown is deeply disappointed in the Supreme Court decision to strike down the Biden Administration’s student loan forgiveness plan which sought to forgive up to $20,000 in student loans. The proposed forgiveness plan would have resulted in major economic relief for hard working home-based child care providers.
William Penn Foundation Underwrites Continuity and Stability for Philly Child Care Providers
Quality Influential Professionals (QIP), is a a child care network of more than 80 licensed home-based providers in Philadelphia. QIP was recently granted a sizable investment from the William Penn Foundation to support home-based child care providers and ensure families can keep choosing home-based care.
New Changes in CACFP Affecting Family Child Care Providers Effective July 1, 2023
Essential provisions in the Keep Kids Fed Act are set to expire on June 30, 2023. Without an extension of these provisions, we will see an increase in young children and providers going hungry.