Ep4. Educated, Powerful Women.

In this episode, Kate MacCrimon talks with Abby Abrisham, owner of Careplus Preschool in Madison WI.  Abby has been operating her family child care program since 1994. She talks about existing professional recognition systems such as WI’s YoungStar QRIS and the Registry.  She also elaborates how she redefines professionalism in child care she is committing herself, for the families she serves and new as well as future providers.

This podcast series is produced by Kids Forward with the support of the Partnership of America's Children and the Center for the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin-Madison through the Mellon Public Humanities Graduate Fellowship Program. These podcasts are dedicated to highlighting the stories of everyday people in our communities on policy topics that affect us all. For this series, we focus on family child care providers, nearly half of the early care and education workforce.