2024 Provider Pulse Survey Report
Quality Care for Children conducted its annual Provider Pulse Check survey in March 2024 to collect a snapshot of the current landscape shared by child care providers across the state. These data and findings help us identify support opportunities and create partnerships to rally awareness for emerging needs.
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The Impact of male involvement in early childhood education
For more than four decades, Quality Care for Children (QCC) has been deeply impacting the lives of children ages 0-5 and their families across the state of Georgia. As a prominent non-profit agency, our mission revolves around ensuring that every child in the state receives high-quality early care and education.
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Georgia’s Child Care System Needs Your Help!
Quality Care for Children conducted a survey of child care providers across Georgia to gauge their anticipated impact of federal stabilization grants coming to an end.
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2023 Provider Pulse Check
Annual Child Care Provider Survey. With over 40 years of experience, Quality Care for Children (QCC) is an industry leader working hard for Georgia’s infants and young children. QCC’s comprehensive approach involves working directly with Georgia’s children, parents, and child care providers.
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Stakeholder Letter: The Child Care Wage Dilemma
Operating a child care program has long been a challenging endeavor – as parents struggle with the cost of care, child care businesses have struggled to offer high-quality programs based on a budget that largely represents what parents can pay, not what it costs to offer high-quality program.
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Impact of a $15 per hour wage on child care
The purpose of this research is to examine the impact of a potential minimum wage increase to $15 per hour on the sustainability of child care programs and the cost of care in Fulton County Georgia, which includes a large portion of the Atlanta metropolitan area.
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Recognizing Women-Owned Child Care Businesses in Georgia
You might not see them on Shark Tank or in a TED talk, but for decades, Georgia’s women child care program owners have been building an industry that sets children on a path to succeed and enables parents to pursue work and educational opportunities.
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The Child Care Worker Wage Problem & Dilemma
With public school teachers throughout the nation striking for higher wages, we can’t help but think about the wages of Georgia’s early childhood educators and the fact that almost 90 percent of them do not make a living wage.
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Child Care Assistance Helps College Students Graduate
It is clear that Georgia students, universities, and employers need college graduation rates to rise. While there might not be one single approach to accomplish this, breaking down the complex problem reveals a diverse set of student need
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Next Atlanta Mayor Must Have Plan to Promote Child Care
The new mayor will take charge of a vibrant city with a reputation as a great place to do business – a city with a growing population and a major destination for young college grads.
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How local regulations impact the supply of child care
Early childhood care and education is becoming an increasingly important issue with educators, philanthropists, policy makers, businesspersons, and economists.
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