by Mary Kay Roth | Aug 21, 2023 | Parents, Providers, Supporters
No, there’s no place like home, but The Children’s Place Child Care Center – in business now for half a century in Lincoln – aspires to come close. “We want kids to feel like they are at home,” says Chris Bruner, director of The Children’s Place for more than 40 of...
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 | Apr 25, 2023 | Parents, Providers
Let’s practice a game of hide and seek: Stay quiet, hush and hide. Now, let’s pretend we’re playing freeze tag, please stay perfectly still and … freeze. These standard children’s games are not just for fun anymore. Now they have become part of teaching our...
by Mary Kay Roth | Apr 13, 2023 | Employers
Early childhood care and education are good for business. That’s what the Lincoln Littles organization has been telling local business and industry for years now. “One of the early tenets for Lincoln Littles was not only promoting quality early childcare in our...
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...
by Clover | Jan 30, 2023 | Uncategorized
The Junior League of Lincoln (JLL) and Lincoln Littles have partnered to provide diapers for children receiving care through one of Lincoln Littles’ 28 qualified child care providers. JLL fundraises, collects and packages diapers for families in need and the recent...
by Mary Kay Roth | Jan 30, 2023 | Providers
Matchmaker, matchmaker … that has been Lincoln Littles over the past several months, matching Educare – a research-based early childcare education program – with a group of local, early childcare centers. It all started when Educare started contemplating a program...
by Clover | Nov 29, 2022 | Uncategorized
Lincoln families – specifically those with small children – have felt the impacts of poverty and childcare costs over the last few years – according to the Lincoln Vital Signs report, released in October, 2022 from the University of Nebraska Public Policy Center. This...
