Advocates for Children of New Jersey’s latest report, Still No Room for Babies: Child Care Staffing Crisis Impacts Supply of Infant-Toddler Child Care, reveals a widespread shortage of infant and toddler child care. A statewide survey of child care centers serving infants and toddlers found that licensed centers have the capacity to serve approximately 68,000 […]
Category: Child Care
Watch: Sen. Teresa Ruiz Speaks About the Importance of Child Care
Senate Majority Leader, Sen. Teresa Ruiz recently appeared on Think Tank with Steve Adubato to discuss the importance of accessible, quality child care and its impact on our workforce.
Share with us your experience with the NJEDA child care facilities improvement grants.
NJEDA Child Care Facilities Improvement Program Grant Survey We would like to hear from child care providers by January 20th. The NJ Economic Development Authority (NJEDA) is currently providing nearly $25 million in grants between $50,000-$200,000 for licensed child care programs under the Child Care Facilities Improvement Program. The grants will cover the costs of […]
Urge Congress to Tackle New Jersey’s Child Care Crisis!
New Jersey’s child care system is still in crisis. A federal investment in child care funding is necessary to keep the system from crumbling further. We must reimagine child care – New Jersey’s Congressional leaders must support an increase in the Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG) funding to make this happen! Let Congress […]
Lessons learned in engaging and supporting New Jersey’s hard-to-reach child care community
In early 2022, Advocates for Children of New Jersey (ACNJ) received funding from several national associations to support and engage child care providers who were less likely to apply for the stabilization grant funds, including family child care providers, small child care centers, providers who speak a language other than English and faith‐based programs. The […]
