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Mikayla Braswell plays with her children Tatem and Delaney at the Children and Youth Partnership of Dare County. Katie Dukes/EdNC

Editor’s note: This article is part of a series on the intersections of community colleges and child care. Other articles in the series are available here.

This article was originally published by McDowell Technical Community College.


This playbook includes data on the demographics of the early childhood workforce in McDowell County, a discussion of roadblocks to hiring and sustaining an equitable early childhood workforce, and details on how McDowell Technical Community College has worked to address those roadblocks.


Editor’s note: Dogwood Health Trust supports the work of EdNC.