CHILD CARE ADVOCATE NEWSLETTER
COMMUNITY INVESTMENT
The future child care center at Greystar’s South Main Mixed-Use project demonstrates the level of community engagement and commitment needed to ensure cities can recover from the COVID-19 public health crisis. We know that the exacerbated child care shortage has left working parents with little choice between challenging arrangements and turning down employment opportunities. Tackling this community issue will require creative solutions from innovative partnerships, such as those evidenced in the Redwood City South Main Mixed-Use project. This Build Up SMC case study highlights the impacts of a child-centered vision supported by community investment and our path to get there.

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CCPC MAKING THE CASE
Economic Recovery
Cities & Elected Officials
ECE Workforce
HELP US SPREAD THE WORD ON QUALITY COUNTS
Quality Counts San Mateo County (QCSM) is helping raise the quality of participating early learning programs, so that San Mateo County's young children get the excellent early learning experiences they need for a bright future!

Please help them spread the word by sharing the flyers below:
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UPCOMING EVENTS
Join Build Up CA for a Facilities Roundtable!

The entire month of September, Build Up California and partners have joined together to explore the most effective strategies to sustain, improve, and expand early care and education facilities. Previous recordings found here.
Thursday, Sept. 30
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm 
RESOURCES
BIPARTISAN POLICY CENTER
Did you know that high-quality child care programs provide young children with better opportunities for positive growth, however, many child care facilities do not meet basic health and safety standards? An investigation across ten states by the Department of Health and Human Services found that 96% of child care programs receiving CCDF (Child Care and Development Fund) dollars had at least one potentially hazardous condition, such as broken gates and water damage. For more research and reports addressing the challenges and supports in early care and education facility infrastructure click the links below.
SHARE YOUR STORY
Child Care Aware of America
By sharing your experiences, you can make a difference. Want to improve child care? Your story can help leaders and policymakers identify what works, and what doesn’t, to advance a safe, affordable, and high quality early care and learning system for families, providers, and communities.
Parent Voices California
Be a part of history as we advocate to win the LARGEST FUNDING INCREASE FOR CHILD CARE we've ever seen! By sharing your experiences, you can make a difference. Want to improve child care? Your story can help leaders and policymakers identify what works, and what doesn’t, to advance a safe, affordable, and high quality early care and learning system for families, providers, and communities.

As always, we hope you and your loved ones are safe and well.

Thank you for your continued support,

The Build Up SMC Team

Build Up is an initiative designed to preserve, grow and improve the supply of child care and preschool facilities in
San Mateo County.


September 2021