MPI Webinar


The Importance of Family, Friend, and Neighbor Care for Immigrant and Dual Language Learner Families
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Date & Time: TOMORROW, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2021, 1:00 P.M. ET (New York, D.C.) / 12:00 P.M. CT (Chicago) / 11:00 A.M. MT (Denver) / 10:00 A.M. PT (Los Angeles).


SPEAKERS:
*Maki Park, Senior Policy Analyst for Early Education and Care, Migration Policy Institute (MPI)

*Lorena Garcia, Executive Director, Colorado Statewide Parent Coalition

*Natalie Renew, Director, Home Grown

MODERATOR: Margie McHugh, Director, National Center on Immigrant Integration Policy, MPI


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Child care provided by family, friends, and neighbors (FFN) has long been critical in supporting immigrant and Dual Language Learner (DLL) families who are seeking to find safe, affordable, and culturally and linguistically relevant child-care options for their young children. While FFN caregivers offer important and resource-intensive services to these families, these types of care continue to be left out of policy conversations, professional development efforts, and funding considerations. With FFN care providers and the families that depend on them already significantly underserved by child-care and other systems, efforts to expand and improve child care that fail to take account of their needs may ultimately exacerbate gaps in quality and equity.

In this webinar, MPI Senior Policy Analyst Maki Park will provide an overview of a new policy brief she coauthored that discusses the importance of FFN care for immigrant and DLL families as well as barriers that immigrant-serving FFN caregivers face in accessing subsidies and other public supports. Lorena Garcia, Executive Director of the Colorado Statewide Parent Coalition (CSPC), will speak about program and policy approaches to more equitably serve FFN caregivers that CSPC has supported in Colorado. Natalie Renew, Director of Home Grown, will discuss opportunities to leverage historic new investments contemplated for child-care systems to better support FFN care providers and the families in their care.



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