Share Information and Resources
Employers Can Share Information and Resources for Families
- Make information and resources available for parents, caregivers, or grandparents in your organization. Host an internal lunch & learn about early childhood education, brain development or programs available for families of young children in your community.
- Sharing information and resources helps employers and employees better understand early childhood development and early learning. When employers offer information to parents, the culture of the workplace reflects mutual understanding and respect.
- Share resources through your regular communications with staff.
- For New Hire Packets and Employee Handbooks: Download this employee child care guide to include in orientation sessions, new hire packets, and/or employee handbooks, which includes information about Early Learning Coalitions and helpful tips in searching for child care. Download this version to add your own logo to the resource.
- Post Information about Early Learning Coalitions and Child Care Resource and Referral services near the copy machine, the coffee machine, or in the lunch room. Share child care resource links with your employees so that they have access to a child care checklist and the School Readiness program that offers child care subsidies for low wage families.
- Include information about the Early Learning Coalitions and employee child care tips in your company’s newsletter. Download this information for an easy cut & paste into your newsletter format.
- Create a baby packet for coworkers who are expectant parents and/or grandparents. This small gesture demonstrates that the workplace does care and emotionally supports the person in their next phase of life. Include:
- Information about how parents can contribute to their baby's brain development
- Breastfeeding and related health benefits for developing babies
- Division of Early Learning checklist for finding quality child care
- Florida's School Readiness Program (child care subsidies for low wage workers)
- Head Start/Early Head Start Information
- Hold a "Lunch and Learn"
- Lunch and learns are voluntary meetings, training sessions, or presentations that take place during lunch where food is often provided by the employer. They bring together people from across your organization in an informal atmosphere to collaborate and learn. Contact the Children's Movement for speaker suggestions.
- Host a health and early education fair with developmental screening to ensure children reach their developmental milestones. Developmental screenings are essential to detect any developmental issues in which early intervention is key.
- Invite Child Care Resource and Referral staff to talk about finding child care and child care options.
- Promote the Florida KidCare program
- Invite staff from the local Early Learning coalition to talk about the Voluntary Pre-k (VPK) Program
- Invite staff from the Early Learning Coalition to talk about the School Readiness program
- Invite staff from the Early Learning Coalition to talk about the Home Instruction for Parents of Preschool Youngsters (HIPPY) program
- Invite staff from Florida's Help Me Grow child screening initiative
- Provide Healthy Start Risk Screenings and Health Care Provider Information
- Host a session to learn about Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs).
- Host a session to learn about Florida's early learning guidelines
- Connect with your Local Grade-Level Reading Campaign
- Lunch and Learn Screening Options
- No Small Matter is a documentary that educates viewers on why early childhood education is important, as well as the personal experiences and the science to support these facts.
- Brain Matters is a documentary that highlights the reasons behind why learning does not start on the first day of school but rather when a child is born. This film illuminates further how powerful the brain is and how critical it is to start taking the formation of the brain at the early stage of life seriously.
- Resilience is a documentary that addresses risk factors that contribute to Toxic Stress (now called Adverse Childhood Experiences) and how Toxic Stress negatively impacts a person's life in the long run. Toxic stress is attributed to adverse health outcomes, behavioral disorders and more.
- Milky Way is a documentary that unravels the truth about breastfeeding in the United States and how to empower mothers to start/continue breastfeeding.
Circulate information about programs that provide services to children 0-5 (flyers and brochures)
Invite your employees to sign up to The Children’s Movement of Florida weekly newsletter.
- Florida KidCare. Health insurance for children birth to 18. This can either be for private insurance, public insurance or a tax credit to help pay for premiums.
- The Florida Association of Healthy Start Coalitions is a community based preventive intervention focused on providing prenatal medical services to new mothers, regardless of income. The Healthy Start Association has 31 coalitions that serve all counties in Florida. The goal of the organization is to reduce health disparities when related to fetal, infant and maternal mortality.
- Earlycare Mobile App. This is a free texting app that enables parents to create a profile with their child’s information. This includes their child’s name, birth date and any additional information that will personalize their account. Every week or so, the app will provide information of key milestones a new parent will be witnessing until the child is 8 years old.
- CDC’s Milestone Tracker App. This is a free app that lets parent know about age appropriate development from birth to 5 years of age.
- 3T’s Digital Tool for Parents - Any Time aims to create broad awareness of the important role parents play in children’s foundational brain development and shares ways for parents spur early learning and development.
Invite your employees to sign up to The Children’s Movement of Florida weekly newsletter.
HR resources you can use to support parents in your workplace including information about dependent care benefits.
Local Early Learning Coalitions are a one-stop shop for information about early learning programs and early childhood development.
Bosses for Babies is an initiative that brings together business champions for early childhood, highlighting the many ways companies can make an impact and inspiring others to take action.