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Announcing our Rapid Response Program to Inspire Employers to be Business Smart, Family Friendly and Future Ready During and After the Covid-19 Crisis

August 24, 2020 NCECF, News, North Carolina
Family-friendly workplace policies are essential now more than ever to the business bottom line and to child and family health and well-being. That’s why we created our new Rapid Response program. Rapid Response offers tools and resources along with no…

A Collaborative Resource Guide for Child Care and Afterschool Planning in School Districts for 2020-2021

August 17, 2020 North Carolina, Resources
Child Care Services Association (CCSA), which works to ensure affordable, accessible, high quality child care for all families, recently released a new resource for child care programs, afterschool programs and K-12 school districts to help them collaborate to plan for…

EdNC Features Family Forward NC and Increased Need for Family Friendly Workplaces, Policies during COVID Crisis

August 3, 2020 News, North Carolina, Trends
The following is an excerpt from a story by Liz Bell published on EdNC July 27. For the full story, click here. Thanks to EdNC for featuring Family Forward NC. Working parents’ unmet needs have become ever more apparent as…

Is an Increase in In-Home Child Care in our Future?

June 8, 2020 News, North Carolina
When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, many of our child care facilities closed their doors with no guarantee they would be able to reopen when the time came for parents to go back to work. In North Carolina, 43 percent of…

Public News Service: More NC Employers Join Effort to Make Workplaces Family Friendly

February 4, 2020 North Carolina
The following is an excerpt from a Public News Service story by Nadia Ramlagan. For the full story, click here. More North Carolina employers are enacting family friendly workplace policies such as flexible schedules, paid parental leave and support for…

Brunswick County Employers: Register for Our Family Forward NC Seminar at Brunswick Community College

December 4, 2019 North Carolina
The NC Early Childhood Foundation’s Family Forward NC initiative is coming to Brunswick County to share best practices to attract and retain workers through family-friendly business policies. Area employers can join NCECF and the Small Business Center Network at Brunswick…

NC Coalition Against Domestic Violence Applauds Gov. Cooper's Safe Days Executive Order

October 31, 2019 North Carolina
On October 23, North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper signed an executive order that allows state employees who have experienced abuse by an intimate partner to use sick leave for paid safe days so that they can take the steps they…

UNC Chapel Hill's 4th Trimester Project Launches a Hub of Postpartum Health Information

October 16, 2019 North Carolina, Trends
The 4th Trimester Project at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Schools of Medicine and Social Work has launched NewMomHealth, a hub of evidence-based, expert-written, reality-centered postpartum health information. This new resource was designed to help the four…

Let’s Address Child Care Deserts in North Carolina’s Strategic Economic Development Plan  

October 3, 2019 North Carolina
Throughout the fall, ncIMPACT—a public policy initiative of the UNC School of Government—will host regional sessions in the state’s prosperity zones to gain input into the next NC Strategic Economic Development Plan.  The focus of the discussions will be regional…

Most NC Public University Employees to Receive Paid Parental Leave

October 1, 2019 North Carolina
Most North Carolina’s public university system employees will soon be eligible to receive paid time off to care for a newborn or newly adopted child. Late last month, the University of North Carolina System Board of Governors approved a new…

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