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Guest Post: Family Child Care Providers at the Yale University Art Gallery

Authors: Jessica Sack and Elizabeth Williams, Yale University Art Gallery For almost three years, the Yale University Art Gallery and All Our Kin have collaborated to offer professional development sessions to family child care providers. We at the Gallery are … Continue reading

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Growing Brains, Growing Communities: University of Bridgeport Opens its Doors for All Our Kin’s 11th Annual Family Child Care Conference

“High quality early childhood programs – whether they are in a center or in somebody’s living room – have huge, important, powerful impacts on the lives of children. And those impacts can last a lifetime.” These words, spoken by Dr. … Continue reading

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Making Quality Possible: Jessica Sager Featured in a Q&A at New America Ed Central

Last week, All Our Kin Executive Director Jessica Sager spoke with New America’s Aaron Loewenberg about All Our Kin’s history, our new study (which Aaron had written about previously in a different article), and the importance of investing in family … Continue reading

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“Having a Safe Place for Your Children to Be Is a Tremendous Relief”: A New Collaboration Highlights the Link between Child Care and the Workforce

Child care advocates often emphasize the impact that early care and education can have on young children, for good reason – high quality child care has been shown to affect children’s outcomes long after they leave a program. However, the … Continue reading

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March is National Nutrition Month! Three Ways to Support Healthy Eating in Early Childhood

March is National Nutrition Month, a month-long nutrition education and information campaign created to encourage families to develop healthy eating habits. Healthy eating is vital to supporting young children’s physical and mental development, and when healthy eating habits are established … Continue reading

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New All Our Kin Report Makes the Case for Investing in Family Child Care

Exciting news: All Our Kin just released a new report, Examining Quality in Family Child Care: An Evaluation of All Our Kin. For the past year and a half, we have been working closely with external evaluator Toni Porter to … Continue reading

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A Visit to Yanerys’s Program

Early in November, I went to the home of Yanerys Aziz to help her prepare her speech for our New Haven benefit. The speech she gave on November 18 was lovely (you can read it here), but it provides just … Continue reading

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“For me, everything is about preparing the children. That’s golden.”

Last week, we shared a speech given by provider Argentina Burbano at our benefit in Bridgeport. Today, we hope you will take a moment to read the speech given at our New Haven benefit by Yanerys Aziz, a provider who has been … Continue reading

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Words from Argentina Burbano, a Family Child Care Provider

In September, we published a blog post about Argentina Burbano, a family child care provider in our Stamford network. Today, we invite you to read the speech that Argentina gave earlier this month at All Our Kin’s annual event at Bridgeport’s Bijou Theatre. We … Continue reading

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All Our Kin’s Co-Founders Win Grand Prize at the Second Annual Roslyn S. Jaffe Awards Ceremony

On October 27, All Our Kin’s co-founders and directors, Jessica Sager and Janna Wagner, were honored as the Grand Prize recipients of the second annual Roslyn S. Jaffe Awards at a ceremony in New York City. Drawing a crowd of … Continue reading

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