Building Child Care Resiliency in the Face of a Changing Climate

Climate change is a pressing global challenge with profound implications for daily life. For early childhood educators, the increasing frequency and severity of extreme weather events, such as heat waves, hurricanes, wildfires, and floods, pose significant risks to the physical and mental health of children, educators, and staff and make it increasingly difficult to keep their programs operational( AAP, n. d.). The impacts include and extend beyond immediate safety concerns, threatening to worsen the child care crisis, harm community cohesion, and exacerbate social and economic inequalities.