Louisiana Family Child Care Advisory Board

LSL Louisiana

Your Voice. Your Leadership. Your Future.

Across the nation, Family Child Care Educators are trusted early care professionals who understand firsthand what it takes to care for children, support families, operate a small business, and navigate the systems that shape Family Child Care every day. Yet too often, decisions about Family Child Care are made without the voices of the educators who know the work best.

The Louisiana Family Child Care Advisory Board is being created to ensure that Family Child Care Educators have a meaningful seat at the table. This advisory board will bring together passionate educators from the Family Child Care community to help identify priorities, elevate educator perspectives, inform solutions, and strengthen the future of Family Child Care across Louisiana.

What is the Louisiana Family Child Care Advisory Board?

The Louisiana Family Child Care Advisory Board is a statewide advisory group of Family Child Care Educators and leaders who bring their lived experience, expertise, and collective voice to help shape priorities, policies, and solutions that strengthen and elevate the Family Child Care field. Advisory Board members will work together to identify critical needs, inform strategies, build partnerships, and ensure that Family Child Care Educators have a meaningful voice in decisions that impact their profession, businesses, children, and families.

The Board will serve as a powerful leadership table to connect, collaborate, and elevate Family Child Care across Louisiana.

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Advance Leadership & Professional Advancement

Strengthen leadership pathways, professional development, recognition, and opportunities for Family Child Care Educators to grow and lead the field.

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Shape Policy
& Advocacy

Elevate the voices and lived experiences of Family Child Care Educators to inform policy priorities, systems change, and advocacy efforts at the state and local levels.

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Strengthen Business Sustainability & Economic Recognition

Advance strategies that recognize Family Child Care as a vital small-business sector and strengthen financial sustainability, compensation, access to capital, and economic mobility for educators.

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Build Partnerships & Elevate the Field

Cultivate cross-sector partnerships and amplify the value, visibility, and essential role of Family Child Care in Louisiana’s early childhood ecosystem.

Why Get Involved?

Call to Action for Louisiana Family Child Care Leaders, Advocates and Educators.

This is your opportunity to exercise your voice, share your expertise, and help shape the policies, partnerships, and investments that impact you, your business, the children and families you serve, and the future of Family Child Care in Louisiana.

Your voice matters. Your experience matters. Your leadership matters.

The table is being set and Louisiana Family Child Care Educators belong at the table.

Who Should Apply?

We are looking for 6 – 9 Family Child Care Educators and leaders from across Louisiana who are passionate about strengthening, elevating, and advancing the Family Child Care field.

We especially encourage applications from educators representing:

Rural and urban communities
Diverse populations,
FCC different program sizes and licensing types

Subsidy-serving programs
Advocates or Leaders supporting home-based child care

You do not need to be a Family Child Care expert; if you care about the future of Family Child Care and are willing to share your voice, expertise and experience, we encourage you to apply.