Learning Opportunities and Resources from BUILD No images? Click here The National ECE Workforce Center is hosting its last webinar in the Grow Your Own ECE series on Wednesday, April 24. Please join us from 12:00 - 1:30 PM ET for Grow Your Own ECE: Supporting and Nurturing Talent. Amaya Garcia, New America’s Director of Research and Practice, PreK-12, will moderate the panel. Over the past six years, New America has conducted comprehensive research and analysis of Grow Your Own (GYO) Educator Programs nationwide. This body of work has explored the existing landscape of GYO program and policy, spotlighted new directions for GYO, and guided the agendas of national and state leaders as they look to GYO as a way to support community development efforts, address teacher shortages, and improve and diversify the educator workforce. She will be joined by:
You can find all of the Grow Your Own campaign resources on the National ECE Workforce Center's Grow Your Own page. This includes past webinar recordings, PPTs, Grow Your Own ECE videos, and some resources, with more to come. And please share your Grow Your Own stories on social media using the hashtag #GrowYourOwnECE. We’re thrilled to invite the BUILD community to learn more about Nurture Connection, a national impact network that partners with families and communities to promote Early Relational Health (ERH). You will hear from Dr. David Willis, founder of Nurture Connection along with other Nurture Connection leaders about how in partnership with families, ERH champions around the country are working to promote the flourishing of families and their youngest children through an intentional focus on supporting foundational relationships between infants and toddlers and their parents/caregivers. To achieve this vision, Nurture Connection shares emerging knowledge, amplifies breakthroughs, innovations, and collaborations, supports communities through place-based ERH efforts, and centers parent leadership as a grounding principle of the network. We hope you’ll join this informative and valuable discussion and leave inspired to enhance your coalition efforts. Panelists:
Last year, the Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP) released a report, Putting the Pieces Together for Families with Young Children: Aligning State Health and Human Services, Nutrition, Child Care, and Paid Family and Medical Leave. This report highlights the challenges parents of young children face in accessing the benefits and services they need to thrive and the steps some states are taking to make this process easier. In this webinar, CLASP staff will interview parents, advocates, and administrators from California, Washington, and Washington D.C. who will offer insight into what it takes to build an aligned system of support for families in this critical period. Panelists:
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