Working Families Project
The Working Families Project is rooted in the belief that Early Childhood Education is an inherent need, right and resource for families. The Anchor Institutions of Healthy Neighborhoods Albuquerque acknowledge that workforce challenges arise for many reasons, but one way to alleviate the barriers is to provide exceptional Early Childhood Education options and boost the sector of educators that teach and care for our most vulnerable population.
There are currently incredible non-profit organizations, for-profit businesses, and state level agencies doing this work and have been for years. HNA brings two new concepts to the table that hopefully can accelerate the use of the transformative funding from the state that is to be used for Early Childhood Education.
Infrastructure - Anchor Institutions have infrastructure; and they want to leverage that to allow Early Childhood Education businesses to occupy that space for little to no cost. The infrastructure is scattered throughout Albuquerque which allows working families’ accessibility to Early Childhood Education centers to increase.
Education Workforce Boost - Working with community partners and CNM to address the ECE workforce shortages by increasing education courses and certification courses, while also working with various community partners to address at a state level the pay inequalities for the ECE sector.