The Early Educator Design Team , supported by Child Care Aware of Washington and its partners , is a workgroup comprising 34 child care providers , families , and advocates . The design team has unified around a
Liberatory Design Process 36 to identify scalable policy solutions , inclusive of the recommendations in this report , for stabilizing and growing the child care workforce . Design team participants were selected to represent diverse workforce roles , geographic locations , racial / ethnic and linguistic identities , and programmatic characteristics .
The provider design team began meeting regularly in spring 2022 to develop a comprehensive policy proposal to advance workforce compensation in the 2023 legislative session . The design team ' s goal is to increase access to high quality , affordable child care through comprehensive budget and policy solutions that recruit and retain a diverse and thriving workforce .
The design team ’ s efforts build on work already underway , including implementation of the Fair Start for Kids Act and the recommendations included in this Child Care Collaborative Task Force Report . It also identifies additional policy proposals related to :
• Compensation and well being
• Professional growth opportunities
• Equitable opportunities to meet changing requirements
• Child care system reforms
• Small business supports for the child care industry
At the time of this report , the design team ’ s work had not concluded . A written report is expected from Child Care Aware of Washington in late 2022 .
36 Developed by the National Equity Project , Liberatory Design is a problem-solving process where people most impacted by a problem co-develop a solution that prioritizes racial equity in process and in outcome .
More information is available online .
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