January 23, 2025 - NEHSA Final Rule Workshop (Pt II)

Join your New England colleagues on January 23, 2025 at 1:00 EST for NEHSA's second workshop in the Final Rule PD event series; this virtual event will focus on different topics within the Final Rule than were covered in-person in Framingham, with breakout topics including:

• ERSEA

• Salaries, wages, and benefits

• Child health and safety – including lead safety

• Mental health and staff wellness

• Suspension policies

• Prenatal services and birth outcomes

Register to attend at the following link.

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February 27, 2025 - Reduce Turnover & Increase Workforce Wellness

Financial stress is the most common and persistent form of stress Americans face, impacting our physical and mental health, the health of our communities, and our satisfaction in our work. Early childhood educators—long under-valued and under-compensated for the critical work they do—know this stress all too well. Understandably, financial stress is also a key driver of staff turnover. In addition to the financial cost, turnover has significant and lasting negative consequences for the quality of children’s achievements.

 

While we keep working towards systemic change to compensate early educators fairly, there are tools your staff can use to alleviate financial stress, reduce turnover, and increase workforce wellness today.

 

“We combined (a cash incentive), with education and tools from The Financial Wellness Essentials course to improve staff financial wellness and promote retention. Prior to implementing these strategies our turnover rate was 33.4%. In August, we offered the Financial Wellness Essentials course and aligned it with the distribution of goal-based incentive pay. From September - January our turnover rate has dropped to 6.6% and we have seen 9.5% growth in staffing within the Head Start program.” - Heather Decker, Senior Director of Early Childhood Development, Regional Economic Community Action Program, Inc.

 

Join us to learn about an innovative and effective way to reduce turnover and increase workforce wellness. Melissa Pancoast, founder of The Beans will share what works and why after partnering to serve and support more than 10,000 Head Start employees nationwide. 

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Register to attend at the following link.

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March 19-21, 2025 - NEHSA Spring Conference

Join the NEHSA March 19-21, 2025 for an in-person, multi-day training with dynamic speakers and interactive sessions at the Westin Portland Harborview in Maine. A final agenda is in the works.

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Register to attend at the following link, and make your hotel reservation here.

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We are also seeking proposals for presentations and seminars; we want to hear from you!​

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