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Thriving Children, Families and Communities Conference set for September
Join us online September 27 for the Thriving Children, Families and Communities Conference, an exciting day of learning, sharing and inspiration as community leaders from across Nebraska come together to focus on high-quality early childhood education and its impact on local economic development and community vitality. Read More
March 26, 2021 | Posted in General
NECC Family Child Care Network: Taking family child care professionals from surviving to thriving
The Nebraska Early Childhood Collaborative’s (NECC) staffed Family Child Care Network (FCCN) offers robust business and professional development tools to help family child care educators across the state stop just surviving and start thriving. Read More
December 15, 2020 | Posted in General
NECC’s Toolkit program helps child care providers acquire state licensure
The Nebraska Early Childhood Collaborative’s Licensing Toolkit program helps unlicensed and new child care providers on their journey to state licensure through hands-on support, resources and materials to meet licensing requirements and membership in a professional network for family child care busineses owners.
Read MoreSeptember 24, 2020 | Posted in General
Elevate20: A virtual business summit for child care providers is now live!
Elevate20 is a business conference designed specifically to meet the needs of Nebraska family child care homes and child care centers in the areas of technology, human resources, marketing, leadership and finances. The conference is online and on-demand this year and is live through September 12.
Read MoreSeptember 02, 2020 | Posted in General
CARES Act funds will support Nebraska’s child care system as state moves toward economic recovery
Here's FFN's breakdown of how $20 million in federal funds resulting from passage of the CARES Act in response to the COVID-19 pandemic will be used to stabilize and strengthen Nebraska's child care infrastructure and other school-based education services for children.
Read MoreJune 02, 2020 | Posted in Legislation
Economic Developers: Don’t forget about child care in COVID-19 relief efforts
Economic development organizations are well positioned to help local businesses remain viable during the COVID-19 emergency. Here's why it's important for child care to be included in those efforts. Read More
April 10, 2020 | Posted in General
‘Quality’ child care is about developing healthy children—and healthy businesses
Nebraska urgently needs skilled, highly capable child care providers to thrive—not only as educators and caregivers for young children, but as business owners and entrepreneurs. This was the central theme at Elevate19, a recent conference for current and prospective child care providers from across the state. Read More
June 27, 2019 | Posted in General
A Business Strategy for Nebraska’s Babies
Founding CEO of the Nebraska Early Learning Collaborative, Shannon Cotsoradis: Shared services among early care and education providers can be part of the solution to providing cost-effective, high-quality care. Read More
July 27, 2016 | Posted in General
New Website Offers Extensive Resources for Early Childhood Educators
Early childhood education providers across Nebraska can access quality early education resources through a new website from the Nebraska Early Childhood Exchange. Read More
July 09, 2015 | Posted in General
Recent Posts
- LB351 becomes law, promotes child care quality and capacity in Nebraska
- State Budget Proposal Includes Additional Investments in Sixpence
- Thriving Children, Families and Communities Conference set for September
- LB351 seeks to remove unnecessary barriers to increase child care capacity, quality
- Tax guidance for early childhood providers and business owners on COVID-19 relief funding
- Report: Lack of child care in rural Nebraska impacts business, communities, crime, security
- Legislative report highlights serious challenges for early childhood programs due to COVID-19
- Sara Howard Joins FFN
- New report explores state, nationwide use of tax credits to spur early childhood investment
- LB531: Incentivizing child care quality, capacity through private investment
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