Our Mission
Caring for Kids, Raising Up Our Profession
The mission of the CCPU Training Fund is to provide high-quality, worker-centered professional development opportunities to family childcare providers and to build respect for our contributions to early childhood education. When we say family child care providers, that includes our family, friends, neighbors, and licensed child care providers. All family childcare providers are essential and deserve support.
The CCPU Training Fund provides professional development by consulting with family childcare providers about our professional learning goals across regions and languages. Our peer-to-peer learning is informed and led by providers for providers with a focus on business development and child development.
Our Mission
Caring for Kids, Raising Up Our Profession
The mission of the CCPU Training Fund is to provide high-quality, worker-centered professional development opportunities to family childcare providers and to build respect for our contributions to early childhood education. When we say family childcare providers, that includes our family, friends, neighbors, and licensed childcare providers. All family childcare providers are essential and deserve support.
The CCPU Training Fund provides professional development by consulting with family childcare providers about our professional learning goals across regions and languages. Our peer-to-peer learning is informed and led by providers for providers with a focus on business development and child development.
Origin Story
CCPU Training Fund’s Commitment to
Racial Justice
We believe that all of our work should lead to racial equity and remove systemic barriers for Black, Indigenous, and communities of color. To create the system of early childhood education our children need, we believe that working for racial justice is essential. Our commitment to racial justice shows up in the structural solutions we seek, the way our programs are structured to follow the priorities of the family child care workforce that is overwhelming women of color, and the internal policies and practices of the training fund that seek to further equity.
CCPU Training Fund’s Commitment to
Language Justice
We believe that everyone has a right to communicate in the languages we choose and that all languages hold equal value and deserve equal space. Family child care providers speak approximately 50 languages statewide. The CCPU Training Fund is committed to growing our capacity to ensure that everyone can access our programs and benefits in the languages we choose.
Background on family child care
Family child care providers provide the foundation for early childhood education across the state of California. 40,000 family child care providers serve children who receive subsidies for childcare, providing culturally responsive, high-quality early childhood education for low-income Black, Indigenous, Latine, AAPI, and other communities of color across the state of California. Family child care providers are at the forefront of ensuring an equitable educational foundation for all children.
Family child care providers are an incredibly diverse workforce of predominantly Black, Latine, AAPI, and Indigenous women of color. Family child care providers speak approximately 50 languages statewide and are often the only early childhood setting where children can receive an education in the language we speak in our homes. Family child care providers also provide non-traditional hours of care is also a huge need that FCCs almost exclusively meet.
