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Category: Early Care and Education
Child Care is Key to New Jersey’s Economic Recovery from COVID-19
This new report released by Ready Nation, speaks on how the COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately impacted women’s employment, resulting in the lowest rate of female workforce participation in more than 30 years. The lack of child care forced women to leave the workforce when schools and child care providers had to close. Availability of child […]
Medicaid Expansion Narrows Maternal Health Coverage Gaps, But Racial Disparities Persist
A new report from the Georgetown Center for Children and Families shows that a state’s decision on whether to expand Medicaid has a profound impact on women of childbearing age (18-44). In 2019, across all racial and ethnic groups, women in non-expansion states were more likely to be uninsured than women in states that had […]
Register: HealthySteps: Promoting Healthy Development for NJ’s Babies
Register to receive an overview of this evidence-based model aiding in the mental well-being of babies, and learn more about the efforts being made to bring the HealthySteps program to families throughout the state.
Celebrating New Jersey’s New Universal Home Visiting Law
By Cecilia Zalkind, ACNJ President/CEO Cecilia Zalkind (R) with ACNJ Parent Advocate Alice Lu (L) at the bill signing event It’s official! Last week, Governor Murphy signed the universal home visiting bill (S690/A4530) into law, guaranteeing new parents at least one free home visit from a nurse within two weeks of their child’s birth, with […]