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🧡 Maine Families, @opp_alliance, and @PortPublicLibME are partnering to host a very special multilingual sing-along!
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Be part of advocacy for the early childhood field in Maine! Join @maineaeyc for the Education of Young Children for Statehouse Day 2024!
Register here: secure.everyaction.com/Vszfe…
Some days can be long with little ones! We love these simple ideas from @2SmallToFail you can do together in your home.
Check out what's going on via @maineresilience!
In partnership with @mdoenews, MRBN has designed a series of free professional development workshops specifically for educators and caregivers who work with children ages 0-8.
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📰 It’s tax time, which can often lead to confusion for families with questions about Maine’s Dependent Care State Tax Credit.
You can access this information (and more) from @MaineDHHS with added context:
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Join in a shared journey of learning and charting a course of action to dismantle racism in our food system and our world.
🥬🫘🥘Learn more about @FoodSolutionsNE & register!
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Looking for engaging and practical professional development that teachers value?
Kind Mind engage teachers and parents in their emotional well-being and offer an easy-to-use program, so they can support children socially, behaviorally, and emotionally.
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🛠 New Toolkit for Employers to Support Child Care for Their Employees! @mainegov_news
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NOW is the time to recharge! Tara will share about her experience working in early childhood education and parenting while living in survival mode and working too hard. @maineroads
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We are grateful for early childhood educators – our children and economy cannot thrive without them!
Thank you, @maineaeyc!
Learn more: maineaeyc.org/overview-teach
@MaineRoads to Quality has announced the new group of programs and individuals selected for the next round of the Maine ECE Registered Apprenticeship Program including our community partners, @CareShunk Child Care and Youth and Family Outreach!
Without child care, Maine’s economy stalls.
"In my 34 years in the field of child care, I have never experienced the instability that is compromising the foundation of our industry like it is today. Child care workers are disappearing."
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It is estimated that we may need to recruit over 1,000 educators to the child care workforce to meet the current needs of programs across the state. In a competitive labor market, child care just can’t compete with other industries. Support LD 1726!
In a 2023 rapid survey, 40% of child care programs reported being understaffed leaving a gap in the number of children they can serve. To recruit educators back into the child care field, we must invest in livable wages.
Support LD 1726! @RightFromtheSt1
📍Please support LD 1726 - an Act to Build Maine's Economy by Supporting Child Care for Working Families!
@RightFromtheSt1
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"We believe that state and federal investments in high-quality early learning programs – specifically child care – are foundational to growing Maine’s workforce & economy." - Ben Gilman is chair of the Maine Children's Trust and member of @Ready_Nation
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