The child care industry is in crisis in Connecticut and beyond. Experts believe it’s driven by a pandemic-era labor shortage. The number of child care workers in Connecticut dropped 28% from ...

CT's urgent and mobile crisis centers, which help children in mental health crises, are running low on funds, service ...

Connecticut child care workers, the overwhelming majority of whom are female, earn an average of $27,976— far below Connecticut’s per capita income of about $45,000.

About 20% of Connecticut’s child care centers have permanently closed since the coronavirus pandemic, and preschool capacity has dropped by more than 10,000 slots since 2020, leaders of the ...

Connecticut was already 50,000 child care slots short before the pandemic. Now it’s at 72% of its pre-pandemic capacity.

WATERBURY, Conn. (WTNH) — Providers joined politicians Thursday in Waterbury for a roundtable discussion on the state’s child care crisis. The conversation was held at the TEAM Inc. child care ...

Connecticut faces an ‘overwhelming’ coronavirus pandemic-induced crisis in pediatric mental health care. Here’s what experts say the legislature should do.

For more than 30 years, Maureen Fontaine has run a licensed child care business out of her home in Fairfield. She came close to retiring in 2020 after losing both her parents to COVID that May ...

That pay is the root of a nation-wide staffing shortage in the child care sector. Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) said there are 48,000 vacancies across the country and around 4,000 in Connecticut.

There is a new resource for Connecticut kids. An Urgent Crisis Center is opening its doors at The Village For Families and Children in Hartford. It’s one of four centers like this in the state.

Leaders address Connecticut’s child care crisis by: Brittany Taylor. Posted: Aug 8, 2024 / 05:26 PM EDT. Updated: Aug 9, 2024 / 05:51 AM EDT. by: Brittany Taylor.

WTNH Hartford. Leaders address Connecticut’s child care crisis. Posted: August 9, 2024 | Last updated: August 9, 2024. Providers joined politicians Thursday in Waterbury for a roundtable ...