We want to thank you for joining us in celebrating the Week of the Young Child! This is a national event promoting the importance of high-quality early learning sponsored by the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC). This year the Maine Department of Education and the Department of Health and Human Services, … Continue reading Week of the Young Child: Music Monday
“Child care workers are disappearing.” As a family child care educator, I echo this statement from Camelia Babson Haley in her recent letter to the editor (“Without child care, Maine’s economy stalls,” May 16). Maine has lost 43 family child care programs in just the past year. One bill that can help reverse this decline […]
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Governor Mills: âItâs all about the kids! Child care is critical for our children & our economyâ
May 25, 2021
Governor Mills promotes Maine Jobs & Recovery Planâs investment to expand child care capacity, a key complement to the Administrationâs work to make child care more widely available for working Maine families
During a visit to Penobscot Bay YMCA in Rockport today, Governor Janet Mills highlighted the importance of the Maine Jobs & Recovery Planâs investment in accessible, affordable, and high-quality child care and early childhood education opportunities in Maine.
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Gabriel McCarthy, 4, hugs his mother Carolyn Courtney on Tuesday as he and twin brother Cormac, far left, are dropped off at Bouncing Bubbles Child Care in Skowhegan. Rich Abrahamson/Morning Sentinel
When Carolyn Courtney decided to put her twins, Cormac and Gabriel, into a child care program in the spring of 2017, the process of finding a provider proved to be difficult.
She was not sure at first whether she should send them to a facility near her home in Mount Vernon, or closer to her job in Skowhegan. She ultimately decided to take them with her to Skowhegan after struggling to find a place that had the capacity to take the brothers, who are now 4 years old.