In 2019, the Burbank YMCA convened the Burbank Infant Group to respond to community feedback about a lack of licensed infant care in Burbank. The Burbank YMCA and Child Care Resource Center partnered to study available data which revealed that Burbank has considerably more children than licensed child care spaces. In 2022, CCRC received grant funding to conduct a Burbank child care needs assessment in partnership with the Burbank YMCA. The needs assessment confirmed what we knew about licensed child care spaces but revealed much more.

One in three women and one in four men in California experience domestic violence. This has long-term implications for their health and well-being as well as the development of their children. CCRC led a collaborative effort to implement 36 listening sessions with a wide range of stakeholders across the state of California to illuminate critical barriers faced by survivors of domestic violence when attempting to access essential services. Recommendations for policy, program and service change are included to ensure this vulnerable population can begin to rebuild their lives.

Families across the state of California were engaged in listening sessions in order to better understand their experiences with child care financial assistance and finding child care providers.

Quality Start San Bernardino works in partnership with early childhood programs to increase the quality of local early learning programs in San Bernardino County.

Head Start programs support children’s growth from birth to age 5 through services centered around early learning and development, health, and family well-being.

Thanks to federal and state funding, CCRC ensures access to quality child care.

Working class families across the nation struggle to find affordable child care for their children. Fifty-one percent of Americans live in child care deserts and the share of the population living in a child care desert ranges from 22 to 77 percent across the nation.

The pandemic has reminded us of the essential role child care plays in keeping the workforce and economy moving.

Emergency Child Care Bridge: The California Emergency Child Care Bridge is a first of its kind program designed to assist caregivers tasked with caring for a foster child. The program helps stabilize foster children in the best possible settings while ensuring caretakers have adequate support to balance their work and home lives.

CCRC’s Home Visiting program supports families in strengthening their protective factors, ensuring family well-being for years to come.

One-time funds supported the ECE field during the pandemic but have since dried up. This, combined with rising costs, declining enrollments and staff exits for better pay and benefits elsewhere, the field is facing the perfect storm. Sustainable funding is needed to prevent a perfect disaster in the ECE field.