The first of its kind, the U.S. Early Years Climate Action Plan puts forth a framework for understanding how climate change impacts children and families, child- and family-facing programs, and local communities and proposes recommendations for different stakeholders and government agencies to implement resiliency strategies and funding opportunities to protect young children.

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The Low Income Investment Fund and ECONorthwest submitted this report to the Oregon Joint Committee on Ways and Means as a part of a larger project aimed at increasing the supply of child care in Oregon....

This report outlines the community benefits of co-locating family child care with affordable housing, then offers strategies for financing and designing high quality family child care spaces....

In this article form the Hechinger Report, author Anya Kamentz makes clear the increasingly negative impact climate change has on child care facilities. On top of providing quality, loving care, extreme heat, smokey air, and flood risk are now reoccuring challenges child care providers must face....

This helpful tool can be used in the ECE facilities planning stages to design and create child care facilities that are "child-oriented, developmentally appropriate, beautiful, environmentally sensitive, healthy promoting and functional." Users can browse through different areas of the facility inculding the building, classroom, bathroom, kitchen, laundry and outdoor play areas. Interactive, clickable images further break down design and landscaping elements and offer environmentally-conscious and safe material options....