The number of licensed family child care homes (FCCHs) in North Carolina has decreased by 22% since before the pandemic. During the five years when pandemic-era funding was used to stabilize the state ...
HIGHER WAGES: The Verner Center for Early Learning, which serves at least 232 children from infancy to age 5 each year, raised wages for its workers, thanks to the N.C. Child Care Stabilization grants ...
This story originally published online at NC Newsline. Stephanie Smith’s nearly eight-year run as a home childcare provider in Durham is coming to an end just as the Child Care Stabilization Grants ...