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Why Universal Pre-K Can’t Solve Everything
Season 4 Episode 5
Does universal Pre-K guarantee school readiness? To answer that question the podcast is headed to Wisconsin! Land of freezing winters, dairy cows, and universal Pre-K. Back in the 1980s, Wisconsin ma…
Published on 1 year, 3 months ago
Climate Change Is A Childcare Issue
Season 4 Episode 4
Climate change is not just an issue for our children’s children. We are already feeling its effects today. Gloria talks to two experts who lived through historic California wildfires and droughts in …
Published on 1 year, 3 months ago
Fighting Family Homelessness
Season 4 Episode 3
Did you know that families with young children are one of the most likely groups to experience homelessness? Being a new parent is hard enough – it’s nearly impossible when you don’t have stable hous…
Published on 1 year, 3 months ago
Mental Health, From Day 1
Season 4 Episode 2
There’s a mental health crisis in America. If we want to turn that around, we need to start from the very beginning of a person’s life. Gloria speaks to Terri Chebot, an infant mental health consulta…
Published on 1 year, 3 months ago
How Childcare Can Fight Poverty
Season 4 Episode 1
On the first episode of Season 4, Gloria’s taking a look at how quality childcare and early education can help families break out of poverty, and what that means for our country’s future. First, Glor…
Published on 1 year, 4 months ago
We’re Back! No One Is Coming To Save Us Season 4
Season 4
What happens in the first six years of a child’s life can shape their entire future. This season, we’re back to uncover the links between childcare and some of the most pressing issues of our time, l…
Published on 1 year, 4 months ago
Fostering a Better Future (with Sandra Gasca and Lisa Guillette)
Season 3 Episode 15
When young adults leave the foster care system they’re left trying to find housing or employment on their own. Oftentimes, the thing they yearn for the most is family. In this special episode, Gloria…
Published on 2 years ago
How Care Can Bring Our Country Together (Live from CareFest LA)
Season 3 Episode 14
Gloria is live at CareFest in Los Angeles, presented by Caring Across Generations, to bring you a conversation among leading care advocates about the potential of the care agenda to unite a divided n…
Published on 2 years, 1 month ago
Uniting Parents to Improve Schools (with Keri Rodrigues)
Season 3 Episode 13
Keri Rodrigues's son was suspended 36 times while he was in kindergarten. She felt abandoned by school officials and like the teachers hated her child. So she went into mama bear mode, organized loca…
Published on 2 years, 1 month ago
How Richmond Raised the Standard For Mixed Delivery Care
Season 3 Episode 12
The tour makes a virtual stop in Richmond, where host Gloria Riviera learns how the community has built a public-private partnership to help subsidize a mixed-delivery model of care that helps famili…
Published on 2 years, 2 months ago