The Greater Fox Valley Child Care Alliance is a network of partners across NE Wisconsin (from Greater Green Bay to Oshkosh) working to make it easier for children ages birth to 5 and their families to get the high-quality, affordable early care and education (ECE) and family supports they need to thrive.
With this newsletter we aim to educate and inform our communities about the need to transform early care and education in ways that will bring about more equitable and lasting outcomes for children and families across the region and to spark opportunities for action, alignment and coordination.
This month you’ll find:
LOCAL NEWS:
- NEW Manufacturing Insights podcast: Our Child care model is a “market failure.” What’s next?
- Insight on Business, “Laying the Groundwork” featuring Lynn Coriano, Executive Director of Basic Needs Giving Partnership
OPPORTUNITIES TO ENGAGE & LEARN:
- Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago: Female Labor Force Participation in the Post-Pandemic Era By Camilo Garcia-Jimeno and Luojia Hu
- FrameWorks Institute and their partners at Leading for Kids: “What Does Caring Mean? A New Framing Strategy to Shift Thinking About Kids and Families”
Local News
Lynn Coriano, Executive Director of the Basic Needs Giving Partnership and convenor of the Greater Fox Valley Child Care Alliance, was a recent guest of the NEW Manufacturing Insights (podcast series), a collaboration between the Northeast Wisconsin Manufacturing Alliance (NEWMA) and Insight on Manufacturing (IOM) Magazine highlighting issues in the New North region.
Lynn with co-hosts, Ann Franz and Kate Bruns discuss the child care “market failure,” and explore local/regional efforts to co-create cross-sector networks to build shared understanding, problem solve and advocate for child care supports and policy changes.
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addition to the podcast, Lynn was featured in the May 30th “personalities feature” of Insight on Business.
Listen to the Podcast Read the Article
Opportunities to Engage & Learn
The Alliance recognizes that accessible, high-quality child care starts with a dedicated and skilled workforce. We continue to explore and advance conversations and strategies to address the root causes of low child care workforce compensation with the goal of promoting thriving families and robust and stable local and regional economies.
As part of its Spotlight on Child Care and the Labor Market, the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago released recent findings and analysis of labor force participation for women with young children, noting that “the labor force participation rate for women is higher than it was prior to the pandemic. “The exception is Wisconsin, where the labor force participation rate for women with young children remains below it’s pre-pandemic level.” The Alliance is working with our network to better understand the dynamics behind this data and the larger story it is telling of Wisconsin as an outlier in the Federal Reserve’s Seventh District.
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Advancing policy changes in our region will require new ways of thinking and valuing care. New resources are now available through a partnership between Leading for Kids and the Frameworks Institute. This collaboration is being supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Children’s Hospital Association.
“What Does Caring Mean? A New Framing Strategy to Shift Thinking About Kids and Families” delivers a “reframing of how we think and talk about kids by broadening Americans’ understanding of care”
Click on the link below to learn more.
Leading for Kids and the FrameWorks Institute
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Alliance partners share a commitment to center voices and leadership of families, advance equity in all decisions and actions and transform systems at local and regional levels. To advance our work we recognize the value of our children from birth to five and the priority investment necessary to build thriving children and families.
We are working to engage parents in our work, if you interested in participating, please let us know by sending us an email by clicking here.
Thank You Partners
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