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1977
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Founded in Oakland, CA as the East Bay Staff Education Project.
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1978
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East Bay Workers in Child Care became known as the Child Care Employee Project
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1980
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“Who’s Minding the Child Care Workers?”, a report based on in- depth interviews with 95 child care teachers and providers in San Francisco was published in the nationally distributed Children Today.
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1985
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Organized the Child Care Employee Caucus which was first conveyed at the National Association of the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) Conference.
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1988
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In collaboration with Chabot College, created the Child Care Mentor Teacher Program, that acknowledged master teachers and rewarded them with higher compensation in California. (Currently, this program is in operation in 70 community colleges in California)
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1989
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Published the National Child Care Staffing Study, a landmark study that documented the link between program quality, compensation paid to the child care teachers and the affect on children.
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1991
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Led, the Worthy Wage Campaign which was created as a grassroots coalition to raise public awareness about the child care staffing crisis caused by low wages.
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1994
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Moved to national headquarters in Washington, D.C. and becomes known as the National Center of the Early Childhood Workforce.
Convened first conference, “Breaking the Link: A National Forum on Child care Compensation” was as an invitation conference for 100 public policy experts to explore systemic solutions to the child care staffing crisis.
The Leadership Empowerment Action Project (LEAP), a training program to assist child care teachers develop leadership and community organizing skills was developed.
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1996
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Released report, NAEYC Accreditation as a Strategy for Improving Child Care Quality, which documents that efforts by NAEYC’s accredited program to improve quality were hampered in programs by poor compensation.
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1997
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Became known as the Center for the Child Care Workforce (CCW).
Taking on Turnover, an action guide and training program to address the growing problem of turnover in center-based child care programs, is developed and later published in 1999.
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1998
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Invited to serve on President Clinton’s Treasury Department Working Group on Child Care, a working group which included representatives from six major U.S. corporations as well as the AFL-CIO.
CARES (Compensation and Recognition Encourages Stability), a program to provide professional development awards to child care teachers and providers based on education and years of experience is developed in partnership with California advocates and the California Labor Federation.
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2001
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Then & Now: Changes in Child Care Staffing, (PDF) 1994-2000, the first longitudinal study of child care workforce which reported turnover rates over time, and documented where people went when they left, and who replaced them in the child care workforce, was published.
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2001
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FOCUS (Focus on Committed and Underpaid Staff for Children’s Sake) Act, the first national legislation introduced to provide stipends to child care teachers and family child care providers based on their educational level and years of experience. The bill is introduced on Worthy Wage Day (May 1) 2001
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2002
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Merged with the AFT Educational Foundation on November 1, 2002.
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