Venette Pierre is the Communications Manager Home Grown. Her background includes marketing, public relations and community development. She is passionate about advocating for access to quality supports for underserved communities and storytelling through digital communications.
Venette Pierre
Communications Manager
Articles by Venette Pierre
Ahead of FFN Appreciation Week 2025, a member of the Home Grown staff shares her personal experience with family, friend and neighbor providers and why she's passionate about supporting them.
Black and Brown communities have historically relied on home-based child care as a form of community cultural wealth and resilience even though this work has been consistently undervalued due to systemic inequities. Recognizing the strengths of providers and caregivers and investing in culturally rooted solutions can help shift the power in decision-making and help strengthen and support home-based child care.
Junto con las inspiradoras mujeres que son cuidadoras y cuidadoras de niños en el hogar, Home Grown celebró el Mes de la Historia de la Mujer pidiendo salarios adecuados que reflejen el valor de las contribuciones de los proveedores al desarrollo de los niños pequeños, el apoyo familiar y las economías y comunidades locales.
Together with the inspiring women who are home-based child care providers and caregivers, Home Grown celebrated Women's History Month by calling for adequate wages that reflect the value of the contributions of providers to young child development, family support, and local economies and communities.
Este Mes de la Historia Afroamericana, honramos a los proveedores negros de cuidado infantil en el hogar que no solo brindan cuidado a niños; su trabajo sostiene a sus comunidades y, al hacerlo, continúan un legado de cuidado comunitario para las comunidades negras.
This Black History Month, we're honoring Black home-based child care providers who don’t just provide care to children; their work holds up their communities, and in doing so, they continue a legacy of communal care for Black communities.
Conozca cómo el Grupo de Trabajo de Políticas de Home Grown está trabajando para ayudar a informar y dar forma a políticas que apoyen a los proveedores de cuidado infantil en el hogar.
Home Grown is proud to endorse the Early Childhood Nutrition Improvement Act in the U.S. House. We look forward to working with Members of Congress to help accomplish our shared goal of keeping our kids fed. Read our full statement.
Home Grown applauds the Administration for submitting to Congress the request for much-needed resources to keep child care providers afloat, and urges Congress to pass this much-needed aid quickly. Read our full statement.
Si no se aprueba rápidamente la Ley de Mejora de la Nutrición en el Cuidado Infantil, sin duda veremos un aumento en el número de niños pequeños e incluso de los propios proveedores que se van a dormir con hambre.
Without quick passage of the Child Care Nutrition Enhancement Act, we will undoubtedly see an increase in young children and even providers themselves going to bed hungry.
Home Grown se encuentra entre las 56 organizaciones nacionales que instan al Congreso a extender los aumentos en el reembolso de comidas de la Ley Keep Kids Fed (KKFA) por un año más para ayudar a las guarderías y escuelas a alimentar a los niños durante el verano y el próximo año escolar. Instamos al Congreso a actuar ya.
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.
In celebration of Women's History Month, Home Grown and NBCDI share the stories of how as FFN caregivers, women hold up their communities and our nation.
Home Grown aplaude a la administración Biden-Harris por proponer una inversión histórica en el cuidado infantil y la educación temprana.
Home Grown applauds the Biden-Harris administration for proposing an historic investment in child care and early education.
Debido al alcance del racismo sistémico, las mujeres negras en el sector de cuidado infantil de EE. UU. a menudo enfrentan barreras adicionales cuando se trata de defender sus derechos.
Because of systemic racism's reach, Black women in the U.S. child care sector often face additional barriers when it comes to advocating for themselves.
Home Grown believes that Family Child Care providers contribute a vital service and are deserving of the opportunity to access public pre-K funding to further teach the children in their care.
Read Home Grown's recommendations for supporting and strengthening FFN care, providing critical support for children, families and caregivers.