The quality of our work matters!

  • Young children and families depend on us.                                     
  • Our quality, expertise, and well-being matter.
  • Support us to better serve young children and families.​
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Federal and National Advocacy priorities

DCFCCA leverages the National Association for Family Child Care as an advocacy partner for national and federal issues that impact the quality and availability of "child care".  Learn more.

 District advocacy priorities

Affordable "child care".
  • DC child care is the most expensive in the nation. DCFCCA advocates for quality and affordable child care as a member of the Under3 Coalition.  
Measuring "child care" quality.
  • DCFCCA advocates to ensure that the systems developed to increase quality reflect research and best practices. 
​​​Supporting  "child care" quality.
  • DCFCCA advocates to ensure that meaningful incentives and supports are provided to help programs meet quality standards. 
Increasing child care supply.
  • DCFCCA advocates to ensure that skilled and knowledgeable professionals can open, maintain, and expand home-based child care.
Aligning as advocates.
​​DCFCCA is building relationships with other advocacy organizations including:
  • ​DC Association for the Education of Young Children 
  • DC Head Start Association
  • DC Early Learning Collaborative
  • DC Action for Children

 our advocates in action

If small businesses are the backbone of the economy, then home-based care centers like mine are the central nervous system that connects everything and makes it all possible.

The very least the city owes to those providing care to our next generation is the same financial security afforded to other workers, so that our employees can likewise build careers that provide for their own families’ needs.
Read Angelique Speight's opinion piece in the DC Line.