ECEA Insider's Edge---Members ONLY Updates
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ECEA Members Legislative Action Alert
CCCAP Needs to be Fixed -- We Need Members Help to Accomplish that!
ECEA members have nearly full legislative coverage in the state of Colorado! That means that we have a unique ability to have an impact on legislators but WE NEED YOUR HELP!
CCCAP MUST Be Fixed
Colorado currently has $27 Millio...
Sep 17, 2026
9/15/26 ECEA Insider's Edge (members only)
Watch your inbox today for a Legislative Action Alert....we need YOU in order to fix low income child care. Without you....nothing will change!
Colorado Has a Child Care Desert. It Is Not the One You Keep Hearing About.
Two "desert" reports landed on our desk this month. One says Larimer Count...
Sep 17, 2026
9/15/26 ECEA Insider's Edge (members only)
Final call for registration at our 2026 ECEA Leadership Conference!!
Next Friday, September 25, is the ECEA Leadership Conference at the Lowry Conference Center, and we want you in the room.
This is the one day of the year when you get to sit down with other owners and directors and have real, ...
Sep 15, 2026
9/9/26 ECEA Insider's Edge (members only)
ECEA CHILD CARE UPDATE | ADVOCACY EDITION
One in Four Private Programs Closed in Three Years. Colorado, We Have a Churn Problem.
More than 1,000 Colorado child care programs closed between 2023 and 2026. The rest of the country held steady. This week we show you the real numbers, who is clos...
Sep 10, 2026
9/3/26 ECEA Insider's Edge (members only)
Advocacy is COMPLICATED. If we haven't heard from you yet, we need your input now! This is completely anonymous. Tell us!
ECEA Member Survey - WE NEED YOUR INPUT NO LATER THAN Monday 9/7 at noon please!!
Advocacy is extremely challenging, especially for a diverse industry like we have i...
Sep 03, 2026
9/1/26 ECEA Insider's Edge (members only)
We are going to be sending reminders for everyone to fill out the survey by Monday at noon.
Because it's anonymous it means that everyone will have to receive these reminders. So to make it less aggravating...we will share out some of the results to date! Right now we have 19 program response...
Sep 02, 2026
9/1/26 ECEA Insider's Edge (members only)
ECEA Member Survey - WE NEED YOUR INPUT NO LATER THAN Monday 9/7 at noon please!!
Advocacy is extremely challenging, especially for a diverse industry like we have in the Colorado Child Care system. WE NEED YOUR HELP!! Please complete this survey to help us stay on track on how we support y...
Sep 01, 2026
8/21/26 ECEA Insider's Edge (members only)
What Is Actually Happening With Head Start?
A Plain-Language Guide to the Proposed Federal Rule for Colorado Providers
The Short Version
You may have seen alarming headlines about Head Start being dismantled. Here is what the document actually says. On August 7, 2026, the federal Office of H...
Aug 21, 2026
8/14/26 Insider's Edge
ECEA's Member ONLY Newsletter
New White Paper: The Case for Market-Based Child Care Reform
We are the workforce behind the workforce, and ECEA just put that truth in writing.
This month we released a new white paper, The Case for Market-Based Child Care Reform: A Strategic Roadmap for Colorado...
Aug 13, 2026
8/6/26 Insider's Edge - ECEA Members Only - Federal Policy Update
FEDERAL POLICY UPDATE · WHAT THE 2025–26 CHANGES MEAN FOR YOUR BUSINESS
Is this a crisis or is it an opportunity?
Cutting through the national headlines: the core child care programs weren't cut; they were funded and nudged up, and a new tax law put the biggest child care benefits for famili...
Aug 06, 2026
7/31/26 Insider's Edge - ECEA Members Only - Advocay Position
New funding is coming, statewide and locally. Whether it comes from a progressive tax, a sales tax, a lodging tax, or a special district, the dollars can strengthen private programs or quietly replace them. The difference is design. Before ECEA supports any funding initiative, we look for a spec...
Jul 31, 2026
Insider's Edge - Help Change Licensing Regs No!; Enterprise Zones
We Are Rewriting the Licensing Rules. Tell Us What to Fix.
ECEA now holds a seat on the SB20 Licensing Task Force. This is the group that reviews the rules you live under every day. If a rule slows you down, costs you money, or makes no sense for a real program, this is the moment it can finally...
Jul 23, 2026
