{"id":265616,"date":"2020-05-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-26T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdnews.com\/the-san-diego-foundation-awards-250000-for-affordable-child-care\/"},"modified":"2020-05-26T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-05-26T07:00:00","slug":"the-san-diego-foundation-awards-250000-for-affordable-child-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/the-san-diego-foundation-awards-250000-for-affordable-child-care\/","title":{"rendered":"La Fundaci\u00f3n San Diego otorga $250,000 para cuidado infantil asequible\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">The San Diego Foundation announced $250,000 in grants to 11 nonprofit programs that will increase access to quality, affordable early childhood education and developmental care in San Diego County.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">The grantmaking is made possible through The San Diego Foundation&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sdfoundation.org\/programs\/programs-and-funds\/early-childhood-education-development\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Early Childhood Initiative<\/a>&nbsp;and a pilot program that focuses on responsive grants in the community.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">The Covid-19&nbsp;pandemic has further demonstrated just how critical child care is to the regional economy, as well as the health and well-being of San Diego children and families.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">&ldquo;The number of families and children&nbsp;in San Diego County&nbsp;that need quality care far outweighs the amount of child care options available&nbsp;in the region,&rdquo;&nbsp;said&nbsp;Katie Rast, director of community impact at The San Diego Foundation.&nbsp;&ldquo;These grants will&nbsp;provide relief to working parents&nbsp;and help bolster the regional economy now, and into the future, by closing the child care gap in our communities.&rdquo;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">According to research from&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/childcare.workforce.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Diego Workforce Partnership<\/a>&nbsp;y el&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/sdchamber.org\/foundation\/regional-jobs-strategy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">C\u00e1mara de Comercio Regional de San Diego<\/a>, early childhood care and education&nbsp;is&nbsp;essential to the health, development and success of San Diegans and the regional economy, yet&nbsp;child care options are scare, inconvenient, unaffordable and of varying quality in the region.&nbsp;The Early Childhood Initiative grants are part of a regional effort by&nbsp;employers, working parents, policymakers and funders, who&nbsp;are working&nbsp;together to address the child care&nbsp;challenges&nbsp;in San Diego.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">The Early Childhood Initiative is supported by the Guy Clum Early Childhood Education and Development Fund at The San Diego Foundation and builds upon a regional vision that supports both immediate impact initiatives and systems-level change in early education.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">The Early Childhood Initiative grants include:&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Copley-Price Family YMCA: YMCA of San Diego County&nbsp;&#8211; $25,000&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">The grant will help open an additional preschool classroom at the Copley-Price Family YMCA located in City Heights, adding 16 spaces to serve children ages 3-5.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Horn of Africa &#8211; $25,000&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">The grant will help&nbsp;enroll 25 East African families with young children in the&nbsp;Horn of Africa&nbsp;Early Childhood Readiness Program, offering weekly home visits, one-on-one parenting instruction, and facilitated parent-child interactions.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Logan Heights Community Development Corporation&nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp;$25,000&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">The Future Achievers Pre-School&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">The grant will help expand&nbsp;the&nbsp;Logan Heights Community Development Corporation&nbsp;Future Achievers Preschool by hiring a full-time teacher, allowing them to accommodate 12 additional children&nbsp;annually.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Episcopal Community Services &#8211; $25,000&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">The grant will support&nbsp;Para las Familias&nbsp;at Episcopal Community Services, which&nbsp;provides specialized bilingual behavioral health services to low-income children ages&nbsp;five-and-under in Chula Vista, Imperial Beach, National City, San Ysidro and southern San Diego.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Father Joe&#8217;s Villages $25,000&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">The grant will support the&nbsp;Father Joe&#8217;s Villages Therapeutic Childcare program, which&nbsp;provides child&nbsp;care, therapeutic interventions, and developmental support&nbsp;for&nbsp;hundreds of children and parents&nbsp;experiencing homelessness and poverty.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Home Start, Inc.&nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp;$25,000&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Behavioral Health Services for Children Ages 0-5&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">The grant will provide behavioral health services and child care support for children ages 0-5 who have been a&nbsp;victim of a crime&nbsp;or have experienced early childhood trauma.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Neighborhood House Association&nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp;$25,000&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">The grant&nbsp;will support additional full-day preschool slots at the&nbsp;Neighborhood House Association&nbsp;Broadway Learning Academy, providing much-needed assistance to&nbsp;working families in downtown San Diego.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Parent Institute for Quality Education&nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp;$25,000&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">The grant will expand the reach of the&nbsp;Parent Institute for Quality Education Early Childhood Development program&nbsp;to four new locations across the County. The program&nbsp;teaches low-income parents how to create a stimulating home environment that enhances their child&#8217;s brain development.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Voices for Children&nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp;$20,000&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">The grant will allow Voices for Children to match more abused and neglected children in the foster system with&nbsp;Court Appointed Special Advocates&nbsp;(CASAs) and connect youth to early childhood education and developmental care.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">The Chicano Federation &#8211; $20,000&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">The grant will support The&nbsp;Chicano Federation&#8217;s Women&#8217;s Small Business Development&nbsp;initiative and&nbsp;will provide an eight-week training program that prepares women of color to launch a family child&nbsp;care business and meet state licensing requirements.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Diamond Educational Excellence Partnership&nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp;$10,000&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">The grant will&nbsp;strengthen and grow a&nbsp;network of&nbsp;family child care providers in southeast San Diego&nbsp;through increased&nbsp;workshop&nbsp;training,&nbsp;the creation of&nbsp;Quality Improvement Plans, and a&nbsp;learning community to foster continued professional development.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The San Diego Foundation announced $250,000 in grants to 11 nonprofit programs that will increase access to quality, affordable early childhood education and developmental care in San Diego County.&nbsp; &nbsp; The grantmaking is made possible through The San Diego Foundation&nbsp;Early Childhood Initiative&nbsp;and a pilot program that focuses on responsive grants in the community.&nbsp; &nbsp; The [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":726,"featured_media":256485,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"11559","_seopress_titles_title":"The San Diego Foundation awards $250,000\u00a0for affordable child care\u00a0","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11559,11551],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-265616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-beach-bay-press","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/726"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}