{"id":5679,"date":"2024-05-09T10:49:15","date_gmt":"2024-05-09T14:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/?p=5679"},"modified":"2024-05-09T11:01:49","modified_gmt":"2024-05-09T15:01:49","slug":"new-yorks-child-care-availability-task-force-recommends-investing-in-the-early-childhood-workforce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/new-yorks-child-care-availability-task-force-recommends-investing-in-the-early-childhood-workforce\/","title":{"rendered":"Investing in New York’s early childhood workforce"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Several of the Institute\u2019s initiatives are highlighted in New York State\u2019s new Child Care Availability Task Force<\/a> report, Making Child Care More Affordable, Accessible and Equitable for New Yorkers<\/a><\/strong>, which was released in April 2024. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The report focuses on the task force\u2019s key findings and recommendations regarding child care workforce stabilization, workforce development and resources, child care affordability and availability, incentivizing corporate support for employees\u2019 child care needs, business support for child care providers and systems, and universal child care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Institute’s work is particularly evident in the workforce development and resources<\/strong> section of the task force’s report. Among the task force’s recommendations:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Enroll in the Aspire Registry<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The task force recommends encouraging educators in all licensed programs and settings to enroll in the Aspire Registry<\/a>, New York\u2019s workforce registry for early childhood and school-age professionals. The Aspire Registry currently serves more than 36,000 individuals and 4,700 organizations in New York State, including home-based child care providers, trainers, center-based programs, school-based programs, afterschool programs, and training organizations. The task force noted that the Aspire Registry “reduces the administrative burden on programs and educators” by collecting and verifying data on educators’ education, employment and professional development. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Increase funding for scholarships for the early childhood workforce<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The task force points to the Institute\u2019s Early Childhood Career Development Center<\/a> and QUALITYstarsNY<\/a> as initiatives that provide higher education scholarships to early childhood professionals. \u201cCUNY PDI\u2019s current workforce scholarship recipients are primarily women of color (67%) and over the age of 30 (66%), a population that has not traditionally had sufficient access to higher education opportunities,\u201d the task force writes. \u201cThese scholarship supports are addressing historic inequities that women and people of color in the childhood and early childhood education sector have experienced,\u201d the task force writes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Expand funding for career and academic advising for the early childhood workforce<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The task force notes that one-on-one career and academic advising services like those provided by the Career Development Center have helped many early childhood professionals achieve their goals: \u201cWhen provided access through tailored and specific academic advising and with scholarship supports, students earning degrees in early childhood education have demonstrated remarkable success. According to the CUNY Professional Development Institute (PDI), which operates career advising programming, the vast majority earn grades of B+ or higher and have high semester-to-semester persistence rates.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The task force also updated several of its existing recommendations from its 2021 report, noting that the state invested $35 million in QUALITYstarsNY in light of the task force\u2019s recognition that \u201cany improvements in the child care system must include investments in programs and the early childhood workforce to drive high-quality care in order to best serve children and families.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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See the task force’s full report<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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