What's Up for 0-5 in Greater RVA

What's Up?

For 0-5 in Greater RVA

January 20, 2021

News you can use!

VDOE-Updated interim guidance for K-12 reopening

VECF-State family child care 2 year workforce survey results

Advocacy Corner!

Voices for VA's Children-Bill explainer, child care stabilization and true cost of quality

VA's early childhood education budget package for 2021 General Assembly

Child Care Aware of America-What it will take to transform child care in 2021

Virtual film festival raises awareness, discussions about early childhood education

Tom Copeland:

Apply now to get new money from PPP
Top 3 record keeping tips for 2021
How to take advantage of the PPP and EIDL loans. (ignore the screen that says the event is closed), Sat., Jan. 23, 2-3:30 p.m.

Parents:

Last chance to have your voices heard by state policy makers. Survey open until Jan. 25. in English and Spanish.

With malice toward none, charity for all, with firmness

in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in,

to bind up the nation’s wounds.

Abraham Lincoln, 1865

Upcoming Webinars:

VECF-Briefing on current emergency school aged child care efforts and new federal stimulus funding for child care. Jan. 21, 3:30

PEATC-Regulation of restraint and seclusion in VA's schools, what parents should know? Jan. 26, 6:30

NAMI VA-Children's challenging behaviors, for parents/caregivers of children with emotional and behavioral challenges, Jan. 25, 6:30-9 p.m.

Attn: Child Care Providers

DSS Licensing Hotline:

1-800-543-7545

VADSS COVID-19 web page for the latest news and resources.

Update your program status with Child Care Aware of VA

Facebook:

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Be well,

Your SBGR Team

Smart Beginnings Greater Richmond

admin@smartbeginningsrva.org

804-409-5650