North Carolina
A Collaborative Resource Guide for Child Care and Afterschool Planning in School Districts for 2020-2021
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…
Business Smart: SoCa and kō-än
Sean Degnan is no stranger to activism. While in college studying English and theater, he attended so many protests on campus that he missed classes and wound up on academic probation. While this passion for advocacy may not have been…
EdNC Features Family Forward NC and Increased Need for Family Friendly Workplaces, Policies during COVID Crisis
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?
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
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
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
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
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…