Oct
21
2021
by Amy Cubbage, NCPC President
Along with our partners at The Hunt Institute, Smart Start hosted a roundtable this week with leaders from the White House and the U.S. Department of Education. There weren't TV cameras or microphones; no podiums...
Oct
07
2021
Family child care is an essential service for many families throughout North Carolina, with 1,300 family child care homes that served 8,700 children in 2020. During the pandemic, family child care homes provided options for parents and essential workers...
Oct
06
2021
by Amy Cubbage, President of The North Carolina Partnership for Children (NCPC)
Too many of the professionals who care for and educate our youngest children receive wages that aren’t nearly enough to make ends meet. Many work without access to...
Oct
01
2021
Farm to School is a program that ensures communities have fresh, healthy food and local food producers by changing food purchasing and education practices at schools and early care and education settings. This is especially important as healthy...
Sep
23
2021
Raising Healthy Children is a Community Effort by Khadijia Tribié Reid, MD, MPH
It was my turn. After two years of providing guidance to thousands of parents as the town pediatrician, I would become a mom for the first time. I...
Sep
17
2021
The Smart Start network understands that North Carolina families’ needs are great in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, and their continued struggles have impacts for us all. Difficulty finding reliable child care is keeping many parents from the...
Aug
25
2021
This is an article written by Amy Cubbage, President of the North Carolina Partnership for Children (NCPC) and originally running in the Perspectives section of the EdNC website
North Carolina families are stressed. They are tired. They are worried for...
Aug
03
2021
This is a joint blog post published by Marsha Basloe, President of Child Care Services Association, and Amy Cubbage, President of the North Carolina Partnership for Children. You may download this post as a PDF here.
It’s time to talk about the workforce...
Aug
02
2021
“We envision a world in which every family is supported at every step along the infant feeding journey, with warm and coordinated hand-offs and transitions so that the needs of lactating families and those who support them are anticipated...
Jul
29
2021
“Working in ECE begins a route to poverty for many”
- Dr. Ashley Williams, Center for the Study of the Child Care Employment.
Smart Start conference attendees joined together to explore challenges facing the early childhood workforce, actions being taken by...
