“Being part of the union means so much to me because I feel like I have more of a backbone and support in the things that have been a struggle as a provider.”
- Lori Christie, Imperial Beach
OUR MISSION
CARING FOR KIDS, RAISING UP OUR PROFESSION
The CCPU Training Fund is working for an early childhood education system that prioritizes the needs and advancement of family child care providers. The CCPU Training Fund works to ensure that family child care providers, who provide culturally responsive, high-quality, community-based early childhood education, are valued, respected, and supported. We envision a world where we as family child care providers receive integrated wraparound support as educators, business owners, community leaders, union members, and human beings. Family child care providers are essential early childhood educators and we support and invest in the families most impacted by poverty and systemic racism in California’s underserved communities. We believe that by investing in this workforce and our quality of life, we are ensuring that all children, in particular in Black, Indigenous, Latine, and AAPI communities, have access to high-quality, comprehensive early childhood education.
OUR VISION
The CCPU Training Fund is working for an early childhood education system that prioritizes the needs and advancement of family child care providers. The CCPU Training Fund works to ensure that family child care providers, who provide culturally responsive, high-quality, community-based early childhood education, are valued, respected, and supported. We envision a world where we as family child care providers receive integrated wraparound support as educators, business owners, community leaders, union members, and human beings. Family child care providers are essential early childhood educators and we support and invest in the families most impacted by poverty and systemic racism in California’s underserved communities. We believe that by investing in this workforce and our quality of life, we are ensuring that all children, in particular in Black, Indigenous, Latine, and AAPI communities, have access to high-quality, comprehensive early childhood education.
Caring for California Kids, Raising Up Our Profession
WE’RE STRONGER WHEN WE’RE UNITED.
WE’RE COMMITTED 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.
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.
BENEFITS
TUITION ASSISTANCE
The Tuition Assistance Fund is here to support you reach your professional development goals as it relates to higher education and your work as a family childcare provider.
Each calendar year, you will be eligible to receive $5,000 in tuition assistance if you have served a child receiving subsidies within the last twelve months.
You can use your tuition assistance to pursue a degree, continuing education, and/or ESL, GED, and computer courses.
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If you do not see your language of choice, please send us an email at info@ccputrainingfund.org. We will need: your name, your email and telephone number, your language of choice and some good times to reach you.
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如果您没有看到您所选择的语言，请发送电子邮件至 info@ccputrainingfund.org。我们将需要：您的姓名、电子邮件和电话号码、您所选择的语言以及与您联系的最佳时间。
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Si vous ne voyez pas la langue de votre choix, veuillez nous envoyer un courriel à info@ccputrainingfund.org. Nous aurons besoin de: votre nom, votre email et numéro de téléphone, votre langue de choix et les meilleurs moments pour vous joindre.
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Se não vir seu idioma de preferência, por favor, envie-nos um e-mail para info@ccputrainingfund.org. Nós precisaremos de: seu nome, seu e-mail e número de telefone, seu idioma de preferência e algumas horas convenientes para entrarmos em contato com você.
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Если вы не видите предпочитаемый вами язык, пожалуйста, отправьте нам сообщение по электронной почте info@ccputrainingfund.org. Нам понадобятся: ваши имя и фамилия, адрес электронной почты и номер телефона, предпочитаемый вами язык и время, в которое с вами лучше связаться.
If you do not see your language of choice, please send us an email at info@ccputrainingfund.org. We will need: your name, your email and telephone number, your language of choice and some good times to reach you.
WORKSHOPS
The CCPU Training Fund is happy to offer are a variety of high quality workshops targeting the specific needs of child care workers and related topics of interest. To learn more about available and upcoming workshops, to register or for questions, please visit the CCPU Training Fund website.
“We’re early educators with a lot of experience, but many providers who provide excellent care to children are no longer providing that service because we can’t make ends meet.”
- Patricia Moran, San Jose
“We need more providers to join and join us in solidarity. Because this fight takes a village. No single person can win, we have to win collectively.”
- Keenan Davis, San Pedro
“My greatest joy is just to see [these children] grow up to be productive, respectful leaders in the community.”
- Amasha Griffin, Apple Valley
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“For me, my husband works with me, this is out sole income. So I have to be able to make a decent living to meet my needs to run my business and run my household at the same time.”
- Pat Alexander, Elk Grove
“I’ve been a child care provider for 15 years, and in those 15 years I realized that were getting paid under minimum wage.”
- Francis Ramirez, Lancaster
“We teach like a teacher. We cook everyday like a mother….It’s hard work.”
- Ramona Duran, Long Beach
