by Clover | Dec 16, 2024 | Parents, Providers, Supporters, Uncategorized
Prior to 2020, a group of early childcare directors in Lincoln started discussing the need for a program that would help support the directors of these centers. When that call came, Lincoln Littles answered. Lincoln Littles created the Peer Mentor Program as an...
by Mary Kay Roth | Feb 14, 2024 | Providers, Uncategorized
Vanessa Benes has worked as an early childcare educator for less than a year, and is still fairly new to her job with Kids First Childcare, Inc. But she has found understanding, moral support and friendship – along with solid strategies and advice – at the Connection...
by Clover | Jun 12, 2023 | Uncategorized
Efforts in Lincoln helped the We Care for Kids/Por todos los niños campaign reach more than 100,000 people across Nebraska in the first year. Launched on June 15, 2022, the campaign has helped build support for quality child care and early learning in the state....
by Mary Kay Roth | Jun 12, 2023 | Uncategorized
Lincoln Littles is helping sweeten early childcare job opportunities this summer by offering new employees financial support in childcare coverage for their own kids. Thanks to a $300,000 grant from the Department of Labor, Lincoln Littles is holding a free six-week...
by Mary Kay Roth | Mar 24, 2023 | Uncategorized
Lameakia Collier believes quality, affordable and accessible childcare operates as the great equalizer in life, the secret to closing gaps in poverty and education. “Without childcare, we don’t function as a society, it is critical to the success of any community.”...
by Mary Kay Roth | Mar 24, 2023 | Uncategorized
Kayla Munoz believes that preschool years are a golden age for children to learn new languages. “They are like little sponges, soaking everything up, so eager and excited to learn, she says. “It’s prime time. If you can get them before 5, they absorb language.” And...
