Climate Justice

Highlights the physical and mental health impacts of climate change on young children and the need to bolster physical infrastructure to protect children from the effects of climate change. 

Highlights the climate risks surrounding child care facilities in Harris County, Texas.  Establishes a baseline.

Highlights the climate risks surrounding child care facilities in Harris County, Texas.  A deeper dive into community conditions.

Highlights the unique risks from rising seas and intensifying flooding and rainfall Family Child Care providers face in New York City.  

Highlights LIIF’s partnership with SF Recreation & Park Department and Rebuilding Together SF (RTSF) to engage community volunteers in creating natural play spaces that allow children to explore their world in a way that inspires learning, movement and imaginative play. 

Highlights LIIF and the National Children’s Facilities Network’s series, Making Spaces, on how children’s connection to nature has changed in the context of our changing climate, and how child care facilities may play a role in restrengthening that relationship. 

Highlights co-location solutions in San Diego with different timelines of construction and implementation as well as types of child care are presented to examine different configurations of pairing child care on site with affordable housing developments. 

Highlights the community benefits of co-locating family child care with affordable housing and strategies for financing and designing high-quality family child care spaces. 

Highlights the strategic use of New Markets Tax Credits in promoting climate justice and green-building policies.  

Listen to LIIF’s Senior Vice President of National Early Care and Education in conversation with Elliot Haspel on the need to incorporate climate resilience and sustainability in early care and education settings. 

Listen to LIIF’s Amy Shea speak on flood damage affecting New York City child care providers.