By: Sue Ebbers, Ph.D.


Change by Design has been awarded a new contract by long-time business partner Jacksonville-based ISF to perform a series of activities to improve workforce capability of Florida’s child care worker population. The project is a biyearly initiative by the Florida Department of Children and Families (DCF), with the work for the upcoming cycle kicking off in December of 2022. For this year’s effort, Florida DCF wants to re-frame their approach to incorporate the understanding that childcare workers are the first teachers who Florida’s children will be entrusted.

The first product of the effort is an evaluation of all Florida child care worker mandatory training that was delivered over the last three years. Change by Design has also been tasked with gathering further insight about the training offerings, directly from Florida’s English- and Spanish-speaking child care worker population. This part of the investigation will include focus group discussions and survey information gathering. The culminating report by Change by Design’s team will feature a comprehensive series of recommendations on how to best re-frame and modernize mandatory training. 

“We have a positive and long-standing contracting history working with both ISF and Florida DCF” remarked Dr. Sue Ebbers, CEO of Change by Design. “Therefore, we are looking forward to another successful collaboration, working together to deliver precisely what is needed for Florida’s children under age 6 to thrive under the watchful, supportive care of child care workers throughout the Sunshine State.”



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