Supporting Small Child Care Businesses During COVID-19 Roundtable Discussion

On April 23, please join BPC for a roundtable discussion focused on supporting small child care businesses. Many of these are women-owned and forced to operate on small budgets and slim profit margins. The work of these small businesses is essential to keeping their communities working, especially during the COVID-19 crisis.

Supporting Small Child Care Businesses During COVID-19 is the fourth and final event in the roundtable series on the impacts of COVID-19 on the child care industry, and will bring together voices of small child care businessowners to discuss the challenges they have experienced. The roundtable discussion will address:

• How small child care businesses have fared during the pandemic;
• What financial resources were—or were not—accessible to them;
• How ongoing stressors have impacted the behavioral health of their employees and the children and families being served; and
• Solutions that can support child care as a small business in this country.

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Featured Participants

Rheitta Ohene-Amoako
Executive Director, Learning Hive, Lawrenceville, GA

Angie Paulson
Director, Cuddle Bugs Daycare, Missoula, MT

Jessica Quinn
Owner and Director, Happy Hours Learning Center, Aberdeen, NJ

NaRhea Salzbrenner
Owner and Director, Birdie’s Nest Child Care Center, Davenport, IA

June Shillito
Director, Yates Baptist Child Development Center, Durham, NC

Linda K. Smith
Director of the Early Childhood Initiative, BPC

Read their full bios here.

In light of restrictions related to the COVID-19 pandemic, BPC events have shifted to all remote formats, such as video teleconferences or calls.