Coconino Coalition for Children & Youth — CCC&Y Board member discusses access to quality, reliable child care in First Things First’s ‘Voices from Community Leaders’ forum video

Aug. 30, 2023 Update

Connections Spotlight

CCC&Y Board member discusses access to quality, reliable child care in First Things First’s ‘Voices from Community Leaders’ forum video

Editor’s note: Laura Rosensweet, Community Impact Manager for Education Forward AZ, is a member of the Executive Committee of the Board for the Coconino Coaltion for Children & Youth. She appeared in the forum’s “Voices from Community Leaders” video along with Coconino Community College President Eric Heiser and Window Rock Unified School District Superintendent Shannon Goodsell.

By First Things First

First Things First recently gathered community members from northern Arizona to discuss how the child care crisis is impacting their local communities.

The Aug. 15 forum at Twin Arrows conference center outside of Flagstaff was the second of a planned set of quarterly forums to be held throughout the state on Strengthening the Child Care Workforce. The first forum was in Thatcher in eastern Arizona. …

Listen to Laura Rosensweet from Education Forward Arizona talk about brain development and how access to quality, reliable care makes a difference for early childhood learning, as well as its importance for working families.

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President Cruz Rivera welcomed students to campus in his annual first-day-of-class video message (Aug. 28), and although Monday was the first day of school at NAU throughout Arizona and online, the Flagstaff campus has been humming with activity for a week as students moved into residence halls, got to know their classmates at Welcome Week activities, went to their first sporting events and donned blue and gold T-shirts for the Class of 2027’s Letters photo. It’s an especially exciting time at NAU, as the implementation of Access2Excellence has contributed to the most diverse, most accomplished and most Arizonan class NAU has ever welcomed. Take a look at the numbers for this class of Lumberjacks and find yourself and your friends in photos.