Introducing Child Care Matters: Built to Break
Why is it so hard to find high-quality, affordable child care in the United States? And what would it take to fix it?
Child Care Matters: Built to Break is a new narrative podcast from Bridgecare that shines a light on America’s early education system and what it will take to rebuild it. Across eight episodes, host and CEO of BridgeCare, Jamee Herbert, speaks with industry experts, parents, and providers to unpack how this system of systems has reached a breaking point.
From outdated regulations and workforce shortages to funding gaps and technology barriers, each episode explores a piece of a system that touches nearly every family, yet remains deeply misunderstood. We’ll move from what’s broken to what’s possible, spotlighting the people and ideas driving real change.
Jamee Herbert:
Child care in America is broken. We all feel it. But this series is going to get to the bottom of why. In the United States, high-quality, affordable child care is hard to find.
But why? I’m Jamee Herbert, CEO and co-founder of BridgeCare. I'm also the host of Child Care Matters: Built to Break, a story told over eight episodes.
Every family has a child care story. For some, it's the joy of finding a place where their child can grow and belong. For others, it's endless wait-lists, rising costs, or the painful choice to step back from work because care is simply out of reach. In each episode, we'll dive into a different piece of the puzzle from the challenges of keeping programs afloat to the policies that could transform access to care. We'll untangle the major threads of the ECE system and show how this system of systems was set up to fail. But more importantly, what we can do to fix it.
This fall, tune in every two weeks for Child Care Matters: Built to Break, available wherever you get your podcasts.
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