Serving Early Childhood Providers During COVID

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In a recent ALSC blog post, ALSC's Early Childhood and Preschool Services Committee posted a thoughtful article on some ways we can support our community's providers.  The author writes:

"An industry already struggling with low wages, low support and deep inequities, the pandemic has hit early childhood care extremely hard. High-quality child care is absolutely essential for our economy of working parents and especially for our future society but is chronically underfunded and unrespected. COVID has heightened these struggles. In some places, facilities (in-home and centers) have had to close completely, in others they are open but with not enough children attending to pay the bills, and in other places, they are open with heavy demand and not enough space, staff or supplies. It is a dire situation that has long-term ramifications and libraries alone cannot solve it, but each library can look at their own community and see if there steps that can be taken to support child care locally."

To read the suggestions on what libraries can do, please stop here.