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El reto PCA: Fondo de ahorro para emergencias.

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Por Zully Rodriguez | Organizador comunitario de PCA ¡Se descompuso la lavadora! ¿Y ahora… quién podrá ayudarme? ¿Mi mama? ¿Mi tío? ¿La casa de empeño? ¿Un préstamo con el título de mi carro que me cobrará un interés exagerado y que terminará causando más dolores de cabeza? Justo cuando se descompone el refrigerador o la batería del carro muere, es …

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The PCA Challenge: Creating an Emergency Savings Plan

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By Zully Rodriguez | Community Organizer for PCA This blog was originally written in Spanish My washing machine is broken! And now…, who is going to help me? My mom? My uncle? The pawn shop? A car title loan that will charge me an outrageous interest rate and cause me even more headaches? It is just when the refrigerator or …

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Los proveedores de cuidado infantil son fundamentales para el bienestar comunitario… Y necesitan nuestro apoyo

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La fomentación del desarrollo a largo plazo y del éxito de nuestros niños comienza con el apoyo de la gente que los cuida: los proveedores de cuidado infantil. Aunque los proveedores normalmente operan en un centro, muchas personas (particularmente mujeres de color) proveen cuidados en hogares particulares a lo largo y a lo ancho de todo el estado. Muchas familias …

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Child Care Providers Are Key to Community Well-being — and They Need Our Support

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More about Educadores Para los Niños del Futuro, PCA’s Home-Based Child Care Provider Network Fostering the long term development and success of our children starts with supporting the educators who care for them一 child care providers.  While providers typically operate out of a center, many individuals (particularly women of color) provide child care directly out of their private homes throughout …

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¡El regreso a la escuela comienza en 3…2…1!

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Por Zully Rodriguez ¡El otoño ya está aquí, el regreso a la escuela comienza en 3…2…1!  ¡Las aulas están llenas otra vez! Después de 2 ciclos escolares con clases presenciales solo de forma parcial, el tiempo de regresar y poner a prueba lo que aprendimos está aquí. Los últimos meses de instrucción en persona del año escolar pasado sirvieron entre …

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Back to school starts in 3… 2… 1!

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By Zully Rodriguez This article was originally written in Spanish. The fall is here, back to school starts at 3… 2… 1!  The classrooms are full again! After 2 school cycles with only partial in-person classes, the time to go back and test what we learned is here. The final months of in-person instruction last school year served, among other …

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Crianza de los hijos post pandemia

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Por Zully Rodriguez | Organizadora comunitaria por PCA A poco más de un año de los cierres por la pandemia, después de que la mayoría de nosotros puso su vida en pausa, entramos en una nueva etapa postpandemia. Ha llegado el tiempo de que los padres de familia cuiden de ellos mismos para que puedan sembrar esperanza en sus vidas …

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Post Pandemic Parenting

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By Zully Rodriguez | Community Organizer for PCA This article was written originally in Spanish.   A little over a year after the pandemic shutdowns and after most of us put our lives on hold, we are entering  a new post-pandemic phase. Now that we are returning to a period of normalcy, parents can  take care of themselves and restore …

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Parents Grapple With Sending Students Back to School: What We’ve Learned

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By Zully Rodriguez | Community Organizer, Partnership for Community Action As we look back at the past months when our kids went back to in-person instruction, we can see that we learn to cope with the uncertain results and benefits of the return to school.  When the state announced that children could return to in-person instruction by April 5 2021, …

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Back-to-School Safety: State and National School COVID Re-entry Guidelines

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As COVID-19 vaccinations ramp up across the nation and infection rates decline, schools are beginning to fully reopen. Re-entry plans vary widely from state to state, but in New Mexico, schools are preparing to return to in-class instruction by April 5th. What does this mean for families in New Mexico?  Students will return to in-person learning at public and charter …