Story Categories: Child Care

A Dream Realized: Kasha's Journey to Creating a Successful Home Child Care Program 

In the wake of personal loss and an empty nest, Kasha Haggarty found her calling – establishing a unique home-based…

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Kingfield Kinder Care

When Jackie Lobdell’s children were young, she couldn’t find daycare fitting the hours she needed. The nearby child care was…

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Taylor Tots

Miranda Taylor turned her experience as an Ed Tech III/School-Based Behavioral Health Professional into Child Care entrepreneurship - creating a…

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Mis Primeros Pasos

For a long time, Thania Hernandez knew she wanted to work with children. In recent years, she gained experience working…

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CEI's Child Care Business Lab

Working mothers are leaving the workforce. Cynthia Murphy, Senior Program Director at CEI Workforce Solutions, saw the trend before the…

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Little Learners Homestead

Passionate about farms, food and children, Anna Wardwell, owner of Little Learners Homestead, LLC, in Hampden, Maine, had always dreamed…

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Rayitos de Sol

Children of working parents can spend up to half of their waking hours in child care. When that child’s first…

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Little Bird Child Care

When Stephanie was pregnant with her first child, she knew she wanted to return to work after the child was born. Despite searching…

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Children's Odyssey

It was time to move. “After 25 years in a variety of locations that we “made work,” we hadn’t found…

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Seedlings to Sunflowers

Seedlings to Sunflowers, a start-up nonprofit childcare center in Gorham, broke ground on its new facility on Friday, November 10,…

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