by Clover | Jan 24, 2024 | Providers, Supporters
Lincoln Littles has granted $53,730 to 16 childcare providers in the city. All funds will be used to improve the quality of the providers’ physical location or to improve quality through staff training. The Quality Enhancement Grant Fund was made possible by generous...
by Mary Kay Roth | Aug 24, 2023 | Employers, Providers, Supporters
Earlier this summer, 11 future childcare givers walked into the classroom – with diverse cultures, diverse life experiences – all extremely eager to learn and connected with the dream of serving children and families. On a warm summer day in mid-August, Lincoln...
by Mary Kay Roth | Aug 23, 2023 | Parents
*As of August, 2023, Creative Minds located at 5521 Shady Creek Ct (near 56th & Nebraska Pkwy) in Lincoln still has openings. Learn more at https://creativemindsearlylearningcenter.com/ “Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious...
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...
