Building Blocks for an Equitable Recovery Initiative
Roundtable Series on
Early Care and Education Facilities
Greater Los Angeles Area
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The COVID-19 pandemic left us with a clear imperative: we cannot return to “normal” because normal wasn’t good enough. The recovery will take an unprecedented commitment from every stakeholder in the early care and education (ECE) sector to build a better future where dignity, fairness, and equity are our core values.
Through the Building Blocks for an Equitable Recovery Initiative, we explore the most effective strategies to expand, improve, and sustain early learning and care facilities as we recover from the shocks of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Master Plan for Early Learning and Care: California for All Kids released last year provides a roadmap for building a comprehensive and equitable early learning and care system over the next decade in our state. We invite you to join us to identify broad actions related to child care facilities that leaders from different sectors can take to drive change and make this vision a reality in a Post-COVID world.
It’s more important than ever to foster public- and private-sector partnerships to shape how our state, counties, and cities invest the federal COVID-19 pandemic relief dollars to increase opportunities for children and the adults who care for them. This Roundtable Series on ECE Facilities was an opportunity for representatives from public, private, and NGO sectors to share experiences and propose solutions to tackle the unique challenges communities in the Greater Los Angeles Area are facing related to child care facilities. As the ECE field recovers from the impact of the pandemic, we thank you for joining us in exploring explore how to work together on a new way forward.
Our Roundtables
Improving Child Care Facilities & Physical Spaces Using Federal Relief Dollars
September 2, 2021
12:00-1:00 P.M. (PT)
Planning for Child Care Facilities
September 9, 2021
12:00-1:00 P.M. (PT)
Financing Child Care Facilities
September 16, 2021
12:00-1:00 P.M. (PT)
Integrating Child Care into Housing and Other Community Facilities
September 23, 2021
12:00-1:00 P.M. (PT)
How Elected Officials Can Lead the Expansion of Child Care Facilities
September 30, 2021
12:00-1:00 P.M. (PT)
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Roundtable 1 - Improving Child Care Facilities & Physical Spaces Using Federal Relief Dollars
Thursday, September 2, from 12:00 to 1:00 P.M.
With more than $50 billion in federal relief invested in the child care sector, along with additional resources for states and localities to respond to the pandemic, we have an unprecedented opportunity to create a more equitable, sustainable, comprehensive early care and education system. While investments in the workforce are the most critical driver of child care quality and supply, facilities are a key element of creating a high-quality child care experience in centers and family child care homes. Join us to discuss how these public investments can support child care providers and partners in addressing facility infrastructure needs, especially in providers in communities of color.
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Improving Child Care Facilities & Physical Spaces Using Federal Relief Dollars
September 2, 2021
12:00-1:00 P.M. (PT)
Roundtable 2 - Planning for Child Care Facilities
Thursday, September 9, from 12:00 to 1:00 P.M.
High-quality programming, business management, educator/caregiver workforce, and the facilities they operate all impact the availability and accessibility of child care in a community. Planning and support may come from local, state, or federal levels. Still, the physical facilities for child care centers and family child care homes are most impacted by local planning, land use policies and practices, and community development activity. Join us to learn how this community infrastructure component can be supported through local strategies, including supportive General Plans, developer incentives or impact fees, and co-location of child care with housing.
Planning for Child Care Facilities
September 9, 2021
12:00-1:00 P.M. (PT)
Roundtable 3 - Financing Child Care Facilities
Thursday, September 16, from 12:00 to 1:00 P.M.
The COVID-19 pandemic has heightened awareness of child care as essential to a thriving and equitable economy, leading to new federal and state funding for facilities improvement and development. Limited state funding targeted for ECE facilities has been available in the past, but housing, transportation, rural development, and other sources have been leveraged. Join us to discuss how funding partners—including community development financial institutions (CDFIs), public agencies, philanthropies, intermediaries, and banks—play different roles in leveraging grants, investments, and loan products to address child care facilities needs.
Financing Child Care Facilities
September 16, 2021
12:00-1:00 P.M. (PT)
Roundtable 4 - Integrating Child Care into Housing and Other Community Facilities
Thursday, September 23, from 12:00 to 1:00 P.M.
Quality child care facilities are essential to equitable and sustainable development. In this webinar, we will explore how communities can work with developers and other stakeholders in innovative efforts to include child care facilities as a component of various projects to promote livable neighborhoods. Affordable early care and education services should be available for all, especially in lower-income communities and communities of color. Join us to discuss how we can achieve this goal together.
This webinar will feature examples of early learning and care centers and licensed family child care homes in affordable or market-rate housing, transit-oriented development, and commercial or mixed-use projects. Speakers will address benefits and challenges, incentives, and planning or financing resources. Join us to explore the intersection of child care and community development.
Integrating Child Care into Housing and Other Community Facilities
September 23, 2021
12:00-1:00 P.M. (PT)
Roundtable 5 - How Elected Officials Can Lead the Expansion of Child Care Facilities
Thursday, September 30, from 12:00 to 1:00 P.M.
Join us to discuss how local elected officials—including city councils, county supervisors, school superintendents, and others—can promote and lead efforts to support the creation of new child care facilities and expand existing ones. This roundtable will explore how officials can partner with child care leaders, use available data, direct resources, and leverage relationships with other agencies.
How Elected Officials Can Lead the Expansion of Child Care Facilities
September 30, 2021
12:00-1:00 P.M. (PT)
