{"id":4168,"date":"2020-09-11T12:50:49","date_gmt":"2020-09-11T16:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/?p=4168"},"modified":"2023-12-12T12:21:02","modified_gmt":"2023-12-12T17:21:02","slug":"research-brief-and-resources-from-the-ece-workforce-covid-19-survey-who-is-caring-for-the-ece-workforce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/research-brief-and-resources-from-the-ece-workforce-covid-19-survey-who-is-caring-for-the-ece-workforce\/","title":{"rendered":"Research Brief and Resources from the ECE Workforce COVID-19 Survey: Who is Caring for the ECE Workforce?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We are pleased to share a&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/research\/docs\/ECEC_Mental_Health.pdf\">new&nbsp;research&nbsp;brief<\/a>&nbsp;that&nbsp;highlights the&nbsp;<em>stress&nbsp;and&nbsp;emotional strain that educators have experienced in the midst of the&nbsp;COVID-19 pandemi<\/em>c based on an&nbsp;analysis of the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/research\/docs\/NY%20ECE%20Workforce%20COVID%20Survey%20Full%20Report.pdf\">survey<\/a>&nbsp;of the&nbsp;New York&#8217;s&nbsp;Early Care and Education Workforce. As we enter in to a new phase in our path to recovery, we hope to draw attention to how the field is faring and call for supports for educators\u2019&nbsp;emotional well-being.&nbsp;<br><br>Key&nbsp;take-aways from the&nbsp;brief include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>91% of respondents reported that their emotional well-being had been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic; 38% said that they had been affected a lot or greatly.<\/li><li>&nbsp;Respondents\u2019 emotional well-being was impacted by:<ul><li>Program status (whether their programs were&nbsp;open, remote,&nbsp;or&nbsp;closed)<\/li><li>Personal job loss<\/li><li>Reduced income (personal)<\/li><li>Personal and family members\u2019 health<\/li><li>Work-life balance<\/li><li>Feeling lonely or isolated<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>Those who reported working remotely were about one-and-a-half times more likely to rate their emotional well-being worse than those whose centers were closed, which speaks to the high degree of stress created by the demands of trying to provide technologically-mediated care and education for young children, especially infants and toddlers.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>As early childhood programs reopen, we are well aware&nbsp;that the expectations and workload&nbsp;for&nbsp;educators and leaders&nbsp;to keep children healthy and safe is greater than ever&nbsp;(e.g.,&nbsp;sanitizing, redesigning learning&nbsp;environments,&nbsp;sourcing PPE).&nbsp;Thus,&nbsp;the&nbsp;mental health impact of&nbsp;reopening warrants significant&nbsp;attention as well. It is our hope that this snapshot of educators and leaders&#8217; experiences will&nbsp;prompt discussion to inspire&nbsp;solutions to care for the&nbsp;early care and education workforce during&nbsp;these unprecedented challenges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/research\/docs\/ECEC_Mental_Health.pdf\">Read the research brief<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are pleased to share a&nbsp;new&nbsp;research&nbsp;brief&nbsp;that&nbsp;highlights the&nbsp;stress&nbsp;and&nbsp;emotional strain that educators have experienced in the midst of the&nbsp;COVID-19 pandemic based on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4166,"featured_media":3147,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[111],"tags":[136,255],"initiatives":[],"audiences":[125,126],"organizations":[],"cbk":[],"article_type":[],"coauthors":[146],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4168"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4166"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4168"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4180,"href":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4168\/revisions\/4180"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4168"},{"taxonomy":"initiatives","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/initiatives?post=4168"},{"taxonomy":"audiences","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/audiences?post=4168"},{"taxonomy":"organizations","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/organizations?post=4168"},{"taxonomy":"cbk","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cbk?post=4168"},{"taxonomy":"article_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_type?post=4168"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}